It used to be that we bought books, and they accumulated (and we sometimes even used them again) until your heirs had to get rid of them. Now we read things onl

It used to be that we bought books, and they accumulated (and we sometimes even used them again) until your heirs had to get rid of them. Now we read things online, and the disks are wiped when our heirs get rid of them. We've always been consuming more than we're producing. What would be nice is to be able to ingest content as before, but have it all stored automatically, then made searchable. I'm told that this is available[1] for a Mac based machine. I'd like it more generally available. The point of having books, or notes, is to be able to retrieve information with context. We now have tools that can summarize and categorize things automatically. If we, as a hive mind, can add just a little bit of multidimensional voting/tagging to the things we see, along with their cryptographic checksum and consent mechanisms, we could collectively organize everything we see with almost zero individual effort. Vannevar Bush's vision for the Memex runs afoul of copyright laws, this might be a way to route around them a bit. [1] https://www.rewind.ai/ https://www.rewind.ai/