ToolsForThought

The term is from HowardRheingold's book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Thought discussing DouglasEngelbart, AlanKay, TedNelson etc.

MaggieAppleton has another overview : https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought#recorded-talk-version

But in fact, it might be good to repurpose this page now to list all those thinking-tools, ToolsForDigitalGardeners etc.

• CardiganBay
• CodexEditor
• OnWiki
  • TiddlyWiki
  • SmallestFederatedWiki
  • MassiveWiki
• OrgMode
• OutLiners
  • RoamResearch
  • LogSeq
  • Drummer
• Xanadu, HyperText
• HyperCard
• Lepiter (SmallTalk / GlamorousToolkit based)
• GlossyThinking
• TinderBox
• TanaInc

Research UX : https://jackrusher.com/classic-ux/

There are some people trying to develop tools for thought, but there isn’t yet a meaningful field around tools for thought. The difference is that a field is about ratcheting: developing a growing shared corpus of general knowledge and methods which allow projects to meaningfully build on each other, across researchers and across years, on and on in an upward cycle. Individuals here and there have contributed powerful insights, certainly, but true success for this field would mean a new practice of human tool-making, and the creation of many tools which transform what people can think and do.

– AndyMatuschak

https://www.patreon.com/posts/47976114

https://speakerdeck.com/adewale/tools-for-thought-from-the-memex-to-index-cards

https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/designing-a-workflow-for-thinking

Compare :

https://thinkingtools.space/t/welcome-to-tools-for-thinking/7

https://numinous.productions/ttft/

https://numinous.productions/ttft/

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