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Allegra A. Beal Cohen's blog about knowledge curation, new interfaces, and large-scale qualitative data.

Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Structure claims into trees. Map evidence to them. Grow shared understanding — together.

What's the point of a note-taking app?

The true purpose of a note-taking app is to facilitate deep learning through three interconnected processes—externalizing ideas, internalizing them into new insights, and resurfacing them over time—and good design should minimize accidental friction while preserving the productive friction that enables genuine understanding.

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed

Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...

Logial Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree App and Exploration - Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Collaboration of Rufus Pollock with David Joseph to build tooling for structured thinking — specifically a Logical Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree app. Both David and Rufus share a long-standing desire to improve public discourse and improve collaboration: aligning efforts to goals, making claims or hypotheses and their logical structure clearer (claim-trees), allowing debate to accumulate, mapping evidence clearly to specific sub-claims.

Own the source. Compose with anything. - The Way of Markdown

Websites, knowledge bases, blogs, even a Notion replacement — built from plain text files you own, with tools you can swap anytime. Markdown is quietly everywhere; here's the way to make it work for you.

The knowledge layer for collective intelligence

A portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together.

Getting Started

Learn how to start publishing your Obsidian vault using the Starlight Obsidian plugin.

Using Obsidian Bases for Tasks - cauenapier

WHy and How I switched to Bases for my tasks management in Obsidian

tonk-labs/carry

Carry — a local-first knowledge tool by Tonk

kepano on Twitter / X

My design philosophy for @obsdmd: it should be intuitive for beginners but have infinite depth for advanced users.Like going to the beach. You start in the shallow waters, and can stay there as long as you like, or keep swimming out into the ocean.— kepano (@kepano) May 23, 2024

Home | Enzyme

More ergonomic tools for gardening your ideas.

What is Open Notebook? | Open Notebook

Take Control of Your Research, Privately