(2021-05-29) Tools For Thought Interchange Part1

Tools for Thought Interchange: Part 1. We hosted Part 1 of a talk series called Tools for Thought Interchange on May 27th, 2021. Tools for Thought — also known as second brains, digital gardens, or simply personal note taking apps — is seeing a lot of interest right now, with more being built every day. The question we posed was: how do we work on interchange between these systems?

Fission provides a Webnative SDK for developers that provides portable identity, end-to-end encrypted data & file storage, and web publishing today. This is perfect for the peace of mind of your important second brain notes, without being stuck in a single SaaS database.

On the public side, the permanent content addressing and graph structure of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has the potential to be a commons network that helps with annotation and linking of tools for thought resources.

Part 1 Presentations

Blaine Cook: atJSON as potential format for interchange

working at Conde Nast

we have over a hundred years of articles from publications across the world. It is extremely important for us to be able to put these stories written for digital media in our archive for the future.

Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki

Jeremy showed some in progress work on transforming ePUB into TiddlyWiki format for in browser annotation and linking, which you can try out online at twpub viewer.

Gordon Brander, Subconscious app

Gordon is building a new tool for thought called Subconscious, and walked us through the design of Subtext, a new type of markup, designed for note taking

Christina Bowen, Social Roots

Christina Bowen did an amazing job rounding out the presentations with a discussion about the usage of notes and note-taking tools for cross-group coordination and collaborative work to address social mess problems. Socialroots is a worker-owned platform cooperative, the first coop to receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).