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> The knowledge base should be primarily in your head. I agree generally, then there is also a case to be made about writing down notes as a way to memorize th

> The knowledge base should be primarily in your head. I agree generally, then there is also a case to be made about writing down notes as a way to memorize the information. Particularly useful when starting on a new subject and could be great for teaching. There is also information that isn’t worth memorizing but worth annotating. Shopping for instance. I would appreciate a 2-way annotation system, where existing notes would appear when visiting a page and where pages would appear when visiting organized notes.

munificent 6y ago
I agree that note-taking is important. But I don't think eliminating a single click to switch from the browser to a note-taking app will make any measurable difference in the quality of anyone's knowledge base or note-taking. The thinking and writing is the hard part.
- jxramos 6y ago
  Reminds me of an old Wilde quote someone used to post at work... If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. Oscar Wilde
- jeromenerf 6y ago
  I don’t know. Browsers are already huge beasts, but I feel like their large feature set mostly benefit the cloud services than the user. I am not advocating for even bigger browser, but I would welcome a better local-first integration with surrounding apps. As of now, extensions are pretty limited in what they can do around the browser UI. On desktop, extensions can merely add icons to a toolbar and inject content to the current page. Vertical sidebars are gone. On mobile, it’s even more limited to adding actions to a menu and some background tasks. Browsers escaped from the crazy and sometimes fragile extension system that could interact with the browser chrome, maybe for the better, but nowadays, they are mostly sandbox screen readers or huge cloud only monoliths à la chromeOS.

munificent 6y ago

I agree that note-taking is important. But I don't think eliminating a single click to switch from the browser to a note-taking app will make any measurable difference in the quality of anyone's knowledge base or note-taking. The thinking and writing is the hard part.

jxramos 6y ago
Reminds me of an old Wilde quote someone used to post at work... If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. Oscar Wilde
jeromenerf 6y ago
I don’t know. Browsers are already huge beasts, but I feel like their large feature set mostly benefit the cloud services than the user. I am not advocating for even bigger browser, but I would welcome a better local-first integration with surrounding apps. As of now, extensions are pretty limited in what they can do around the browser UI. On desktop, extensions can merely add icons to a toolbar and inject content to the current page. Vertical sidebars are gone. On mobile, it’s even more limited to adding actions to a menu and some background tasks. Browsers escaped from the crazy and sometimes fragile extension system that could interact with the browser chrome, maybe for the better, but nowadays, they are mostly sandbox screen readers or huge cloud only monoliths à la chromeOS.