All of these work more like scratchpads and, well, note books. That's fine if I want to put information down for later retrieval and even for low key exploration of past thought. But that's just the digitization of pre-21st century information management. What is now sought after is the next, previously impossible step.

What I envision is more of a knowledge space navigator that lives from connections and links (Wikipedia!) but allows a personal state of information and annotation/augmentation on top of it.

I want something that digitally represents my state of thought while augmenting it with a clean version of the world's knowledge and related information, if that makes sense.

Imagine writing a crypto algorithm - a browser with 30 tabs open and a note app plus my IDE feel like a clumsy and ineffective way to truly put my mind and thoughts into the context of work. It simply feels like doing digitally what people did in the 1960s with pen and paper, encyclopedias and books on their desk.

However, the internet and our hardware today feel like they allow to add at least one another dimension. For many, it's a hunch and a revolutionary product waiting to happen.