[cbreynoldson]

I think the post is a bit misleading (e.g. "for everybody" makes it sound like "everybody" can do something about this right now), but I think this comment misses the point of the protocol.

This is (I think) supposed to be a shared language between note-taking apps (and eventually others that include "thoughts" I presume). The hopes are that it does "affect everybody," but it is not something that can "affect everybody" without "apps" speaking in this shared language.

If you are not somebody who works on these kinds of things, then yea, probably useless to you for now. I think the author wants interoperability at the "thought" level between apps that support users inputting their ideas.