Joho the Blog: Symbiotic thought

February 01, 2005

Symbiotic thought

Steve Johnson, one of my favorite writers, has a piece in the NYTimes about software that collaborates in the thinking process. He elaborates in his blog, complete with screen captures of DevonThink at work. The software does a semantic analysis of what Steve's written and his research notes. Now if only I had ten years' worth of research notes stored in my computer! (Maybe Steve would let me borrow his.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 1, 2005 03:16 PM

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well, a blog is a pretty decent substitute for research notes!

This, because I already use blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/) as a kind of cross between private blog and research-note organiser. The idea of plugging that data into a system to find relevant material is really, really appealing.

Posted by: oedipa | February 9, 2005 05:28 PM

Are you enter to the new site Ximbiotix.com? Interesting about the Symbiotic relationships.

Posted by: Alitas | June 13, 2005 01:24 PM

XimbiotiX, the new marketing desktop.
Enabling Beneficial Relationships

Posted by: Alitas | June 21, 2005 02:18 PM

That Ximbiotix stuff is crazy!! Everything is changing quickly. Finally someone thinks of the user.

Posted by: Mike | July 11, 2005 02:35 PM