Rich Hickey, the creator of the programming language Clojure, once talked about the human capacity for juggling and how that actual physical limitation is somet

Rich Hickey, the creator of the programming language Clojure, once talked about the human capacity for juggling and how that actual physical limitation is something that cannot be overcome. Someone can juggle 3, 4, or 20 or more objects, but there is a finite limit to it. https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?t=735 https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?t=735 And in that same vein, the actual physical limitations of what we can juggle in our minds is fallible. So with the leverage that we get with digital note-taking tools, we think that we may be able to cross that chasm with this technology. Then there's this elusive HOLY GRAIL, which we all think can actually be realized if we find the right tools to solve this problem of off-loading our thinking — so we can do more thinking. Basically, if the notes can be remembered for us, almost automatically, then we can go deeper in ways we never could have imagined, because we're not the ones doing the juggling. We've made use of the digital tools, that are leaps and bounds more powerful than the scattered and siloed, handwritten notes of yesterday. So as new ways of connecting our thinking through digital writing, such as bi-directional linking and transclusion become commonplace, we get glimmers that maybe it's possible now. And the hunting down of just the right mixture of this primitive, and that feature-set, may turn over the right stones to help us juggle that which used to be impossible. And in my experience leading and coaching people through implementing a digital Zettelkasten (simple, lightweight note-taking system) it doesn't take a genius to see a pattern from the response to "what do you want?" The answers all circle around this idea of "leaving something behind."