[the_af]

I think what the quote is saying is that naturally organized people are the ones who build all these management systems. For them, they work because they are naturally organized; pretty much any system will work. Because they lack this insight, they think they found the One True Way, but for people less naturally organized, every system will be a burden, including this One True Way.

[rhizome]

I think everybody has a different sense of organization, and the prevalence of organization schemes and apps is in hopes that enough people can relate to a particular app-developer's preferences and patterns. At the end of the day though, I think productivity is such a chaotic and fragmented genre of tools because everybody is different and there are as many productivity methods as there are people. I've certainly never found one that I've been comfortable depending on, and it just so happens that I've had the idea (and the skills) to create The Best Todo for years, details of which are lurking on some note pages in this pile over here (and a few over there).

[rchaud]

Naturally organized people built VisiCalc, and yet us mere mortals were still able to make use of electronic spreadsheets. The blog author is needlessly pigeonholing people because he thinks the knowledge graph is silly.

[the_af]

There are exceptions, and it doesn't invalidate the article's premise. Spreadsheets are a huge deal, agreed. At this point they are like a general purpose visual programming language, rather than an "organize my thoughts" tool.