(2022-05-11) Are Notetaking Tools Innovative Enough

PKM-ONE: Are Note-taking apps innovative enough? Right now the note-taking developers are not innovating but just trying to capture a pie of the market.

A lot is being said about note-taking tools, they are also referred to as tools for thoughts. But do they serve the purpose of making you a better thinker? I am not so sure.

What frameworks or mental models to apply so you can validate or do you just keep staring at the notes you wrote a few years back and felt what a wasted effort.

All note-taking apps are trying to innovate by making rediscovery of notes organically or with AI. But the critical thinking part is left to the user.

Frameworks like Scrum, OKRs, Cynefin, theory of constraints, Northstar-metric should be built in so the user can process their project notes with a particular framework and make progress on their projects.

The challenge here is that it's probably a bad idea to lock someone into a single framework (model agnosticism, Cognitive Flexibility Theory). So maybe you want to just be opinionated about what the base-layer is, and use documentation (or templates?) to say "if you wanted to use FrameworkX with this tool, here's a way you could do it", then for FrameworkY, etc.

• Opinionated vs Generative