As we use any kind of tool over time, we naturally want the tool to work better for us, to fit our workflows and our use cases. The more we use a tool as a part of our day to day work, the more important it is that the tool work exactly the way we want to work with it.| thesephist.com
Last March, when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted my travels and threw a wrench into my general life plans, I took a couple of months of break from work to recollect and work on my own projects full-time. Many of the projects I ended up building were about growing a personal universe of tools that augmented my workflows, the way I wanted my thoughts and ideas to flow around me. I learned that I enjoyed building tools at many different levels, from thinking about how we should design better c...| thesephist.com
I’ve been delving deeper into the vast and strange world of knowledge organizing tools (notes apps, contact organizers, personal search engines). During this rather abstract expedition, one of my goals has been to emerge with some opinionated thesis about the way these tools should be designed to harbor and extend our knowledge effectively.| thesephist.com