I'm Michael Sun, the maker of metaessen.com which manages resources for practical use by simulating the real world and can be used as a bookmark manger or note-taking app.
> The clearest sign a tool is serving you is that you stop noticing it—it becomes invisible.
It is because you are already very familiar with and accustomed to this tool.
The main meaning of the author probably is (from one article):
We need to remember that the purpose of using tools is to solve specific problems and achieve goals.
No tool is perfect. When using the useful functions of a tool, we also need to tolerate or ignore some of its shortcomings. Don't seek out or switch to a new tool simply because of some insignificant flaws. In the process of selecting and using tools, don't have the perfectionism, and always keep the goal in mind. The important thing is to master the useful functions of the tools to quickly, effectively, and efficiently complete tasks or goals, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, rather than constantly complaining, switching tools, and wasting time and energy.
For the tools we choose, one must become truly familiar with and proficient in their use, continuously customize, modify, and improve them, and strive to use them to the fullest extent, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, and solving practical problems and achieving goals faster and better.
It seems saying "Your way to use Claude is wrong somehow, you should improve the way to use AI", instead of "Our tools have some wrong aspects and we will do our best to improve them".
Interesting story. This seems a true story of the author? The author understands the characters of the people in the process of business. Understanding reality is not easy.
Please prove this is an age of AI, could you confirm it?
If a real programmer does use "AI" usually, or use AI to solve all problems about programming, and AI does the all programming tasks, after 1 or 2 years, do you think his/her skills of programming are improving or declining? He/She will lose big part of programming skills very probability. Do you think he/she is a real-programmer then?
Current AI cannot be comparable with "machinery and assembly lines".
Current AI companies stole much data from Internet without permissions, and used the knowledge of many people directly shamelessly.
It cannot resolve many practical problems well, even in programming area.
Do you want the software-assistant to do the important or enjoyable things instead of you? Do you want your assistant in real life to eat the delicious food instead of you?
So I said "Most time". I know the situation you said. The situation exists but is not regular (I think it's occasional except you want to create a complex system by notes).
By the way, the most important thing is thinking, not the notes, but notes can help you thinking and creating better systems.
More and earlier thinking, more notes, better systems.
It is too complicated. We just get, save or write something, maybe with some categories, keywords, or tags.
After saving, maybe you need some organization later, but most time they are just there. Most time you search content by categories, keywords, or tags.
I think we need right tools for different requirements.
It's time to think about seriously "Could we create a license to make AI companies pay for your content?" or "Create a technology to ban AI bots effectively",
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.
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