Thanks for sharing! I'm glad to discover there's overlap, even if small, with your thinking. I was not aware of the Memex, and I will definitely dive into it r

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad to discover there's overlap, even if small, with your thinking. I was not aware of the Memex, and I will definitely dive into it right away. Regarding the concept of "document" I should maybe make it clearer that a document does not need to contain any text. Photos, images, videos, music, multimedia experiences, … are also first-class documents in a Personal File System. As such, the considerations about text vs markup would form a subset of the general problem of separating meaning from form, which I don't really address. And another distinction I'd preserve is that the Personal File System focuses first and foremost on filing an average user's own production of documents and the immediate exchanges with their entourage (friends and family), as opposed to "things seen on the web" or the production of scientific communities. Those also belong in the Personal File System, but do not drive or define its utility.