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Sorting or queuing is a common occurrence in life and work. For example, sorting the exam scores of students in the same grade at a school. Sorting is useful for lists with a few items or a lot of items.

Arbitrary sorting is particularly useful for prioritizing tasks.

Tags are mainly used for identification or grouping, and are quite different from sorting; the two are distinct.

Given the universality of sorting or queuing in real life, I believe it should be a fundamental feature of note-taking software.

What are the disadvantages of AI?

The author didn't mention them.

AI companies robbed so much data from the Internet free and without permission.

Sacrificing the interests of owners of websites.

It's not sustainable.

It's impossible for AI to go far.

One of my product design principles:

Concise

Focus only on the parts that are really needed, necessary, or the most important; hide the currently unnecessary or secondary, or simply remove the truly unnecessary and secondary; remove all unnecessary

Maybe it can help you

Talking nonsense seriously.

"Winning Formula", attract your attention

No Sleep, No Fun -> No Efficiency, No Creativity -> No good product, No good company -> No health, No life

Too much JavaScript, I think using CSS to implement the same UI is better and simpler.

Good article. I am solving the similar problems in my product[1], which purpose is more practical and uses hierarchy (like file system) and keywords to organize and link information.

If you want to resurface them, you can show them in hierarchy(show children, or descendants in any level), search or filter by keywords, sort them by created time, URL, order, or other fields.

Resurfacing from current context can be very complicated, you should create some fields to track your activities, create many routines to handle these information automatically, and create relative UI. These are advanced features based on the current basic features.

[1] https://metaessen.com/

Solving problems is the purpose and focus.

How to solve problems?

The simple, direct, and effective method is good one method sometimes, not all time. For example, use very complicated method to obfuscate code in order to increase the difficulty of cracking, and there are many environments to use complicated code or methods.

So one is the purpose, one is the method.

Do not think "Lower Cognitive Load" is the purpose.

"Lower Cognitive load" is just the by-product sometimes, not the purpose.

Cognitive Load is not what matters, Solving problems is what matters.

"Cognitive Load" is a buzzword which is abstract.

Cognitive Load is just one factor of projects, and not the main one.

Focus on solving problems, not Cognitive Load, or other abstract concepts.

Use the simple, direct, and effective method to solve problems.

Cognitive Load is relative, it is a high Cognitive Load for one person, but low cognitive load for another person for the same thing.

Too much emphasis on this position and this company.

> I posted diggit.dev to HackerNews and it hit the frontpage!

Again, too much emphasis on HackerNews and the position of a post

What do you want from them? Are you confused or distracted by all this?

This isn't a big deal, just a small thing. Be stronger.

Focus on what will bring long-term peace and benefit. Experience every process and enjoy everything, rather than frustration, self-blame, pain, or other negative emotions. It's always better to find solutions and enjoy the present moment.

I don't want to teach or instruct anyone, just a little of my thoughts. If you feel offended, sorry for that.

Sometimes, I found a beautiful view, then I saw and played, it was time to enjoy. Sometimes, there was no good view, and my brain was excited to design my product, I went to a quiet road which had no or fewer people and cars, no other things to distract or bother you, you just was imaging freely and enjoy the process.

Good article, thank you!

I like extreme cycling, and it helped me solved many problems about development.

When I'm riding my bike and listening to music, especially when freely imagining and designing my product in my mind, I am very relax. Many aspects of my products were designed while I was riding.

Cycling is a great form of exercise. It not only helps you strengthen your body, enjoy the scenery, relax your mind, relieve stress, and adjust yourself, but it can also spark plenty of inspiration. If you’re under heavy pressure or working on a product, I highly recommend you go cycling regularly.

Similar to my view of AI, there is a huge bubble in current AI. Current AI is nothing more than a second-hand information processing model, with inherent cognitive biases, lagging behind environmental changes, and other limitations or shortcomings.

Agree with a lot of arguments of the author.

When you're not sure if what someone says makes sense， trust common sense, your own experience, and your thinking.

If you don't want to create an account to try it, you can use the following account:

username: public

password: test@123

Note: The data of the account will be reset every day (maybe a few hours).

Add the tree structure like file system, not only using tags to classify the resources like other bookmark managers. The tree structure is very flexible and practical, and to simulate the real world.

Yes, They have the same understanding of the meanings of the words "I", "was", "not" and "there", and the sentence.

Focus on the current work content, other than the tools, context, or other things outside of work

- Change work environment

  Close unused apps
  Focus on the current work, and open the useful apps for it only
  

- Change the environment completely

  Go outside for a walk
  Ride a bike
  Go to a quiet place, e.g. Library

- Improve your workflow

  Thinking (at least the rough outline and flow) is the first before any work.
  
  If you have a clear overview of your work, you know how to do it and what work to do,
  and your mind will focus on them.

  Thinking while walking, riding, etc.

  Write the results of your thinking

Deep work, like the processes below:

Focus on a topic or multiple topics

Break down it or them into more specific topics

Think about every specific topics

Break down a specific topic into more little specific topics if necessary

Sometime you need to move and combine them

So you just need the better ways of thinking and some tools to help you in the process.

If you want to find the alternatives, you can try metaessen[1], it is a simple, useful, powerful, and concise bookmark manager or simple note-taking app, and it is free the first year and the price is low now.

[1] https://metaessen.com/

It's not important to write your ideas on physical or digital notebook, what matters is changing the environment and the activity.

For example, I often ride a bicycle, about 10 hours at a time, sometimes I listened to music and thought about problems (most of the time I imagine what the product looks like, how to interact, what the process is, etc. This feels so amazing) while riding my bike, and recorded the results of my thinking in an resource manager(used as a note-taking app) I created. In this way, I solved many problems, made my brain clearer, and released the fatigue of the week.

Note-taking app is very complicated, even bookmark manager is also complicated. They need much time to develop and maintain. If one person develop a himself/herself such app, the possibility is giving up at last.

I think there are two ways:

1. Select an open source app which meet your requirements

2. Select and pay for a commercial app

do not waste your time and resources for it, just use a or some proper tools, and use the time for the most important things.

Metaesn.com is the practical, safe and concise resource manager, helping you focus on and manage the most important parts of resources, not be distracted by the unnecessary, grasp the big picture and essence, save time and improve productivity.

The main goal is to focus on the most important parts of resources and manage resources quickly, efficiently and effectively through concise descriptions, so as to get, understand, organize and use resources faster and better.

It can help you record, save, access and manage various resources conveniently and efficiently on multiple devices anytime, anywhere.

Can be used as a better bookmark manager or note-taking app.

Multiple Use Cases

- Manage bookmarks - Cleanse bookmarks - Collect resources - Write notes, articles, ideas, pieces of text, etc. - Record What you see, hear and think - Manage tasks - Record, Observe and Study the development and changes of things - You can also develop other use cases or ways to use

Please refer to the docs: https://metaesn.com/docs/

There is a lightweight bookmark manager https://metaesn.com , not only manage bookmarks, but also other resources (notes, articles, etc.)

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