I have been thinking about these questions as well. The gist is, it seems we need tools to manage data created from all the applications that we use. Today, the

I have been thinking about these questions as well. The gist is, it seems we need tools to manage data created from all the applications that we use. Today, there's so much data, that the most important tools are those that separate signal from noise. Some things that I have considered: - I like to read long articles on my e-paper reader, there are several services to do this. - I need all quotings from articles, books and my personal notes to be accessible in one place, indexed and searchable. - My whole knowledge base should be easily shared with other people. - I want to find others with similar interests to mine. Some interesting technologies that have the potential of bringing this to reality is the Beaker browser and the Dat format for sharing. Also, I really like World Brain's memex for web annotation, searching and sharing. It seems we are getting closer, but we need to connect the different tools into a widely used workflow.