Saturday, September 10, 2016

Inspiration Workflow Note-Taker

This is a spark of an idea for another variant of a note-taking application to fit a personal set of needs.

There is a whole host of note-taking applications available, but each of them seems to leave out one crucial element that prevents a truly enriching workflow experience and convenient methods for information classification and retrieval.


  • Create an application that regards the workflow requirements of quickly jotting down inspirations.
  • Create an application that regards data retrieval in structures that are meaningful to individual users.
  • Innovate on available methods of creating relationships between data
  • Increase expressive capabilities

Minimum Feature Wishlist



Principles and Terms

The sensed hope that technology can solve life problems
  • the 30-hour work-week
  • the gamification of education
  • the organization of thought through software
    • mind maps
    • note takers
    • wikis
    • search engines
  • the organization of

Problems With Most NoteTakers

This is the problem of the mp3 players before the iPod.

Many features exist.
Many capabilities exist.
A great potential exists.
No feature-set and workflow quite meld together to create something that is easy and enjoyable and convenient and meets technological expectations.

Mediawiki has:
  • basic formatted text
  • Tables, images, files, embedding
  • Has own search engine
  • individual pages
  • individual links to pages
  • structured subclasses and metaclasses
  • synaptic capabilities
  • custom menus 
But MedaWiki: requires special markup for all of these features, and that is a huge deal. These functionalities are obscured and require extensions and diverse, exclusive markup techniques.


OneNote has
  • all of the convenience of wysiwyg
  • has a few subclasses and classification methods 
  • has links
  • a ton of features.
But OneNote:
  • lacks meta data features
  • it costs money, and its Microsoft Office. 
  • its GUI is very complex in its efforts to provide so many features. 
  • It is not focused
  • has no real-time lists and menus like MediaWiki

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