This is super interesting to me, and I am definitely going to check it out. It’s worth emphasizing that I am interested in this because it’s _simple_ and deliberately designed for this (unlike a discord message to yourself or channel or emailing notes to yourself or something).
That said, the single most important factor that determines whether this stays or goes for me is going to be whether it is faster/easier at capturing information than an email (which is how I currently send myself stuff).
This type of thing sits at the top of my personal knowledge funnel. For a tool like this it’s job (to me) is to cast as wide a net as possible and capture everything even tangentially related to whatever I happen to be doing at the snapshot in time when I decide I want to take a note, and then later if I decide that it was important after all I will go back and clean/curate, and move the information to another system like a wiki that has a better format for long form searchable information.
But the critical factor for me is the ratio between work required to capture information at the top of that funnel, and the amount/quality of information captured.
A classic example is recipes. If I search for baked chicken recipes, I am probably doing something like:
1. Search google
2. Open 5-10 tabs
3. Flip through them and pick one that looks good
4. Leave them open for a few days in case the one I try doesn’t end up being a keeper.
5. If I find one I like, move it to my KB under the recipes section
(The same workflow happens when I am looking for movies to watch, or checking out different ways to do something for work, etc)
So, there would be a lot of value for me in something that could make it easier to dump those 5-10 links into a note, intuit some tags, automate some metadata, and if I don’t come back to it in a few days, archive it but keep it searchable.
It’s possible to do this with existing tools now, but that gets us back to the original point: if tool A is faster/easier at it than tool B, tool A replaces B and becomes the incumbent.
All that aside, neat tool - I’ll be keeping an eye on this one!
That said, the single most important factor that determines whether this stays or goes for me is going to be whether it is faster/easier at capturing information than an email (which is how I currently send myself stuff).
This type of thing sits at the top of my personal knowledge funnel. For a tool like this it’s job (to me) is to cast as wide a net as possible and capture everything even tangentially related to whatever I happen to be doing at the snapshot in time when I decide I want to take a note, and then later if I decide that it was important after all I will go back and clean/curate, and move the information to another system like a wiki that has a better format for long form searchable information.
But the critical factor for me is the ratio between work required to capture information at the top of that funnel, and the amount/quality of information captured.
A classic example is recipes. If I search for baked chicken recipes, I am probably doing something like:
1. Search google 2. Open 5-10 tabs 3. Flip through them and pick one that looks good 4. Leave them open for a few days in case the one I try doesn’t end up being a keeper. 5. If I find one I like, move it to my KB under the recipes section
(The same workflow happens when I am looking for movies to watch, or checking out different ways to do something for work, etc)
So, there would be a lot of value for me in something that could make it easier to dump those 5-10 links into a note, intuit some tags, automate some metadata, and if I don’t come back to it in a few days, archive it but keep it searchable.
It’s possible to do this with existing tools now, but that gets us back to the original point: if tool A is faster/easier at it than tool B, tool A replaces B and becomes the incumbent.
All that aside, neat tool - I’ll be keeping an eye on this one!