Explain the problem as you see it
I sometimes write down a note and then think "it seems I wrote something similar 2 weeks ago, but I don't know exactly how to search for it".
Categorizing all the stuff you put in a system can be quite challenging — "is this node about AI or AI safety or ". It feels like forcing to structurize everything is very unnatural.
Why is this a problem for you?
I feel overwhelmed by the need to properly tag and connect all my notes. It's difficult to express every workflow I would use in a structured system (with fields and tags) and choose what parts of the node should be promoted to be a part of structure that will be used in search and what is "just content".
Suggest a solution
What we should do is to emerge structure from data. E.g. we can auto-tag nodes based on content or—better, as I see it— create a powerful search/connect tool that will organize nodes by demand with the structure I want. Like
- "Find all nodes that can help to answer the following question: will AGI destroy the humanity"
- "Find all nodes with content similar to this"
- "Find all nodes about cooking".
So we'll not need to waste hundreds of hours finetuning our tagging/topic system but rather just type in the queries we need right now and use the results.
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This would be awesome 👍️
I just posted almost the exact sentiment this weekend on slack!