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by marionzualo 2397 days ago
Thanks for writing this. This is awesome.

What I see missing is an ecosystem of interoperable tools.

It would be great if I could have a location/format in which all my digital knowledge is stored. And then be able to use different tools which support multiple processes/flows:

* a flow for discovering content

* a flow for archiving the highlights I take on the web

* a flow for writing notes

it would be great if I could change any tool while keeping the flow intact.

The only thing that somehow mirrors this is Evernote + Readwise + IFTT. There are tons of integrations that allow you to populate Evernote from tweets, Highly, Kindle highlights, etc. What I would love is if I could easily swap Evernote with any other editor (e.g. Bear) without changing much.

I wouldn't mind paying for these tools I would just like this personal knowledge software to work in a way in which you can natively add blocks/functionality to it. Most of them have huger vendor lock in.

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I like your abstraction of the different flows. Definitely agree the key is not a one-size-fits-all approach but instead much improved interoperability between the user's preferred tools.