In essence, Farley was Roosevelts aid and kept files on everyone he met so before meeting them again Roosevelt could cram study and "recall everything about them" like they were a close personal friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file
For some reason this is how I think of Google/FB/et al keeping info on people.
Unfortunately I either don't fully understand Zettelkasten or I am paralyzed by indecision on where I split my notes and how I organize them. I guess I'll just continue using Drafts as my "brain dump"/"all text starts here" until I can find something better that is lightweight and works across iOS/macOS.
Have you found any note taking mobile apps that can also sync with Dropbox to be edited as plain text files? I do most of my note taking in vim on my laptop, but when I only have my phone I'm reduced to use simplenote and Google Keep and can't easily access my normal notes.
After 15 years of searching I haven't found that seemingly simple combination of features.
The free version already gives a lot of useful functionality and they have an interesting payment model in which you unlock all current features (and updates over the next year) with a single payment. Hence you could use it as a subscription or simply pay once if the new features are not yet worth it to you.
Why not for individuals too?
I like the notion of "single player facebook". It casts Facebook as being an MMO and then that yields clan raids imagery of identity politics and so on. It's damn near perfect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZZKtypink
Holmes apparently kept detailed notes on every case but would otherwise forget the details until he needed to go back to them later.
p.s. AFAIK the Clay app is just vaporware