What are future knowledge management tools like?

Today, not only the amount of information exploded, but the information is also fragmented in size and floods into our brain from all types of sources. Traditional tree-based categorization method and linear text editing has started to show their deficiency in effectively helping us consume those information and turn it into our knowledge. At the same time, organizing information in a networked way with spacial representation, said to be more effective and intuitive, has begun to shine in some knowledge management communities.

Highlights from brettkromkamp / awesome-knowledge-management

Cotoami, an Experimental Note-taking App Focusing on Connecting

Hello. My name is Daisuke Morita(@marubinotto), I'm a software engineer based in Tokyo. For about two years now, I've been developing an experimental web app for knowledge workers, especially who need to produce new ideas and concepts on a regular basis. It's called "Cotoami" and designed for both personal and collaborative use.

https://medium.com/@cotoami/cotoami-an-experimental-note-taking-app-focusing-on-connecting-734928d53d2c

TheBrain Tutorials

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https://www.thebrain.com/support/tutorials

Roam Research - A note taking tool for networked thought.

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

https://roamresearch.com/

Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.

In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in. With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again.

https://obsidian.md/

Stemic

Stemic is a tool to aid thinking. For the graphic design, we therefore took the opposite view of the classic mind map tools, no flashy colors nor illustrative images... but different graphical forms for objects of different natures. The interface is minimal, the graphic design is sleek in order to highlight your data, your analyzes.

https://stemic.app/

DMX 5.0.1

https://dev.dmx.systems/

Highlights from KasperZutterman / Second-Brain

About these notes

These notes are mostly written for myself: they're roughly my thinking environment ( Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work ; My morning writing practice ). But I'm sharing them publicly as an experiment ( Work with the garage door up ).

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

Life is a giant playground

As we become adults and specialize in a given domain, we gain knowledge that inherently becomes tied to our egos since it's a defining part of who we are. For example, as a software developer, I am expected to know about basic computer science concepts, and if I trip up when explaining a given topic to a peer, it's a shame because I should know it pretty well, but clearly don't.

https://maximevaillancourt.com/notes/life-is-a-giant-playground

About these notes

These notes are "Choose your own adventure": there is no index of all of them anywhere. Click on whatever links strike your fancy and see where they lead you!

https://mathieudutour.github.io/gatsby-digital-garden/

About these notes

Hello! my name is Azlen Elza and I explore ideas across disciplines. This is my digital garden of notes inspired by Andy Matuschak's note-taking system. This database is part of my effort to organize my own concepts and ideas in a more public setting where I can link together notes on various topics.

https://notes.azlen.me/g3tibyfv/

Also worth mentioning

Semilattice

The existing personal knowledge management tools are insufficient to help us process information, especially during web-based research. The tree structure and unique file path inherited from analog metaphors encourage collection, not connection, of ideas. They make it harder to reuse and cross-reference ideas, and easier to hoard information.

https://www.semilattice.xyz/

Capstone, a tablet for thinking

Capstone is an experimental tool for creative professionals to develop their ideas. It explores questions about digital information curation; how creative people come up with good ideas; and what we at Ink & Switch think the future of power-user computing interfaces could look like.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/capstone-manuscript.html

Muse - tool for thought

Muse is a spatial canvas for your research notes, reading, sketches, screenshots, and bookmarks. Because deep thinking doesn't happen in front of a computer. yearly membership try before subscribing $99.99 Your thinking shouldn't be constrained to linear documents of mostly text. You want to move stuff around, bring in new ideas, cull irrelevant material, get a little messy.

https://museapp.com/

Web memex

http://demo.webmemex.org/

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