None of these organizational structures are inventive or the end-all
Sure, but that isn't the important thing. The organizational structures and theories/philosophies are already mainly "good enough".
The important thing is making that power available in a useful form.
It's the software around them that has never been good enough — not even for just entering the images/data/notes/ideas. And you can't derive any value later from data that wasn't entered in the first place.
nothing these systems do that couldn't have been replicated 20, 30 years ago
Hard disagree. One of my important use cases is: "paste PNG/JPEG image data from the clipboard, and instantly display it where pasted — while, behind the scenes converting that to an image file on disk and the (open) standard markup to make this data compatible with 1000s of other tools — and sync all of that to all other devices within a few hundred milliseconds"
You couldn't do that even 5 years ago. With any tool, AFAIK. (And I was looking.)
It's about the software, not the organizational structures.
It is revolutionary in precisely the same way as having good cameras in smartphones is. Many, many people take 1000x more photos today than they did in 2002 — and with good reason! It's super easy. And it's now easy — as opposed to basically impossible — to make use of them later. Can't remember where you bought that thingamajing? Just search for the snapshot of the receipt you took 4 years ago on your phone.
This generation of tools is bringing this kind of organizational power to people who have never had it before — not because they technically could't have used the older, more cumbersome, slower, less capable system — but just because they don't need it badly enough to make the investment of doing that.
Making it easier — lower friction to adopt, easier to derive the benefits from — is almost the entire point.
The organizational structures and theories/philosophies are already mainly "good enough".
They're mediocre at best
I don't have an opinion on collaboration, because collaborating without proper organization is like running away from the problem. With proper organization, collaboration is easy.
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Sure, but that isn't the important thing. The organizational structures and theories/philosophies are already mainly "good enough".
The important thing is making that power available in a useful form.
It's the software around them that has never been good enough — not even for just entering the images/data/notes/ideas. And you can't derive any value later from data that wasn't entered in the first place.
Hard disagree. One of my important use cases is: "paste PNG/JPEG image data from the clipboard, and instantly display it where pasted — while, behind the scenes converting that to an image file on disk and the (open) standard markup to make this data compatible with 1000s of other tools — and sync all of that to all other devices within a few hundred milliseconds"
You couldn't do that even 5 years ago. With any tool, AFAIK. (And I was looking.)
It's about the software, not the organizational structures.
It is revolutionary in precisely the same way as having good cameras in smartphones is. Many, many people take 1000x more photos today than they did in 2002 — and with good reason! It's super easy. And it's now easy — as opposed to basically impossible — to make use of them later. Can't remember where you bought that thingamajing? Just search for the snapshot of the receipt you took 4 years ago on your phone.
This generation of tools is bringing this kind of organizational power to people who have never had it before — not because they technically could't have used the older, more cumbersome, slower, less capable system — but just because they don't need it badly enough to make the investment of doing that.
Making it easier — lower friction to adopt, easier to derive the benefits from — is almost the entire point.
They're mediocre at best
I don't have an opinion on collaboration, because collaborating without proper organization is like running away from the problem. With proper organization, collaboration is easy.