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Tools for Thought

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“When designing new tools for thought, let’s think not just in terms of features, but materials – what software laws of physics do we want embodiments of our thoughts to obey?” Related: Extended Mind Hypothesis, Networked thought, interaction design, memex Questions: Can we do this on a browser-level rather than just a standalone app? Building in curius.app-esque support, annotations, note-taking, etc. Minimize context switching Source Mixing up the order of capture-organize-synthesize causes friction. It forces us to make decisions before we’re ready. See also: reverse outlining Source Is there any way to rearrange the fuzzy cloud of ideas in our head easily on paper/screens? How can we ‘cut’ text without being afraid of it being lost forever? Even with tools like the undo button and Git revision history, the actions of the past are by default hidden. Time is not first class. If a tree fell and nobody remembered, did it really happen? Very 1984-line-of-thought but those who control th

“When designing new tools for thought, let’s think not just in terms of features, but materials – what software laws of physics do we want embodiments of our thoughts to obey? ” Related: Extended Mind Hypothesis , Networked thought , interaction design , memex Questions: How can we create tools that aid our thinking? How can we extend the range of thoughts we can think? As an extension, how do we organize the abundance of information we have today so that it is both accessible and useful? How do we distill all the research debt so that our ideas are easily useful to others? How can we make mix

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