Beyond the tool itself, I like what this tool encourages: deliberate, conscious control of how we recall and explore our interests. Not some algorithm hoovering

Beyond the tool itself, I like what this tool encourages: deliberate, conscious control of how we recall and explore our interests. Not some algorithm hoovering up whatever our lizard brains drove us to do at any given moment and offering us more of that so we spend as much time on the app as possible. Just a faithful servant helping us remember what we want to learn and do and be. Put another way: Twitter wants you to spend as much time on Twitter as possible. If Twitter can interest you in fake controversies where people get mad about stuff that isn't true or makes no sense, Twitter will happily do that. But you're not gonna put "dig into more fake Twitter controversies" in your recall app. It's there to remind you of what you truly want, not just the things you can be tempted into wasting your life on. I'd rather pay for an app that's going to make me better than get a free app that's going to make me worse.