/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24872830/obsidian.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[casey-newton|Casey Newton]] - Full Title:: Why Note-Taking Apps Don’t Make Us Smarter - The Verge - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian - Finished date:: [[2023-08-26]] ## Highlights > We’re collecting so much data that you’re almost paralyzed with having to analyze it all,” one farmer told the *Journal*. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8rbtw2g10mq1vrpy1d2b3rc)) Where does this person see a brutalist design? > Obsidian’s brutalist design ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8rbxsww8h7s32hcyrbcpxwm)) I don't think that they help as much with "new ideas" as with "new associations". > build a knowledge base and discover new ideas ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8rbz2ncc5bvd579nq20nkz1)) > He worries that AI will have a similar effect on the economy — promising to make us more productive, while simultaneously inventing so many new distractions and entertainments that they overwhelm and paralyze us. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8rc1mcmcbcej9047njef855)) But this is another thing: I don't even want that automated. And, precisely for this purpose, these tools help. > The reason, sadly, is that thinking takes place in your brain. And thinking is an active pursuit — one that often happens when you are spending long stretches of time staring into space, then writing a bit, and then staring into space a bit more. It’s here here that the connections are made and the insights are formed. And it is a process that stubbornly resists automation ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8rc3ysxa2tbcvkzsjagawa8))