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Metadata
- Author: 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)
Where does this person see a brutalist design?
Obsidian’s brutalist design (View Highlight)
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)
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)
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)