Explaining the personal memex movement and the @knovigator b2c strategy to @DanielRuvinsky #WorkWithGarageDoorOpen

Summary:The focus of this thread is to discuss the emerging personal memex community which is starting to rethink the document model, and to come up with better ways of organizing, prioritizing and leveraging writing and research to enable productivity and creativity.

Two pillars of knovigator product development. Light weight product development collaboration product we're dogfooding to build knovigator

The memex pillar. Personal knowledge base. Search engine for your mind. What is memex? Wikipedia Vannevar Bush: "bush envisioned memex as a device to store all of their books records and communications so it could be consulted with speed and flexibility"

Memex = search engine for your mind. External vs internal search engine. You've consumed content and curated it to create a search index for the content you found most important

Sharing search engines. If both of us have a search engine and we share with each other, we could search each others' minds. "Im literally searching your mind". Useful for team collaboration

Sharing to followers vs publishing to teams. Follow model could be for b2c consumer product. Publishing to teams makes more sense for collaboration. Push vs Pull.

Emerging growing twitter community around memex tools for thought who are experimenting with different knowledge formats. "There are a bunch of people writing about this idea"

Using twitter to branch writing and reference previous ideas: @visakanv threading example

Knov vs twitter threads. We're trying to optimize the branching, referencing workflow. Built-in search for referencing previous content. Can branch to future content instead of [[working backwards]]. prevent from losing your place when branching.

Why is branching valuable?  Make connections between ideas. Explore a person's ideas. Choose your own adventure content consumption. Never-ending browsing.

Going beyond the document model. Threading and branching is useful and interesting. We are rethinking the ux of content consumption and creation. We are at the beginning of this movement.

Providing value for memex community to grow product, get feedback, gain audience of content and ideas.

@fortelabs and [[building a second brain]]. Practice, gardening, meditation. something you do everyday but where the payoff is in the future. Growing a search engine for your mind is an investment.

Why is knov better than [[Evernote]] or [[Notion]]: [[automated search]], [[threading]], [[branching]], [[integrations]].

Similar to gardening, practicing meditation, practicing bjj knov requires a note-taking/research investment whose payoff compounds over time. it's a personal knowledge base that can then be "merged" with others to collaborate.

Knov hierarchy: personal -> collaborative. Personal is the foundation as it requires a practice to write and curate content to share. The challenge is educating users and demonstrating value.

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