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by jll29 389 days ago
Nice to see an entirely new category of program, based on the core data type "thought", which is what I would call pre-organized information. A spontaneous thought could become a task or a whole project plan, a project or product, once refined, or a memo, even a book. The value proposition is to capture early where other tools force more orgnization before or at capture. So one problem you solve is losing a nucleus of a thought before having time to enter it in a program that requires more metadata. A second way you provide value is that despite being pre-organized, your "thoughts" are already somewhat actionable - this is what using an LLM gives you.

Personal information management is flooded with useless "TO DO" apps that offer little value over plaim text files (which is what I use for tasks), but it appears you have put something together that caters to the informal side of knowledge management in the same sense that Google catered to informal (unstructured) Web pages, overcoming the world of relational databases and forced categorization of library card catalogs.

My recommendation would be to offer APIs and plain text import/export capabilities to grow your app into an ecosystem that can accommodate playing with enterprise tools or homegrown solutions.

I wish you a huge success with this app!

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Thank you so much for this deeply thoughtful comment,you’ve articulated the core intent behind ThoughtCatcher better than I could myself!. The idea of capturing a "nucleus of a thought" before it dissolves exactly that!. I absolutely agree with your suggestion on APIs and plain text import/export. That’s on my roadmap, I want users to feel like they own their thoughts and can plug them into any workflow, from personal journaling to enterprise systems. Thanks again for taking the time — it means a lot!