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by kritiko 1978 days ago
Your comment really resonates with me. The people who seem to push and advance these systems seem to be (broad generalizations follow)

-Academics like Andy Matuschak who are trying to create better technology for learning or do work on really hard problems

-Productivity gurus like Nat Eliason and Tiago Forte who make money selling tutorials on how to use these systems.

For “The rest of us” there could probably be some gains from using these systems... but sticky notes, texts, notes app, Slack, wherever else you jot stuff suffice, and there’s a lot of administrative overhead & habit change required. I think I am gradually implementing more “linked notes” into my work as systems like Microsoft Teams make it possible to combine a wiki and a file directory easily. But I’m skeptical that this is going to become mass market in the near term.