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Programmable Notes

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Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

The Context Most “note-taking” or “knowledge management” software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember to go looking for them. This warehouse approach to notes requires us – the human agent in the system – to do a lot of cognitive labour if we want to use our notes. And using our notes is the entire point of any note-taking enterprise. Most of us have an ulterior motive beyond writing notes – we want to remember, understand, and synthesise ideas, come to confiden

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