I agree with your point that we should be looking to the human as the starting point. In fact, I think this means we should be asking for MENTAL tools for thinking FIRST. Maybe possibly LATER we could use software to help thinking, if it asks for it.
The mental tool we should be looking at is LEXICOGENESIS. I’ve written about this at length: “The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis”
But to summarize for this context: if we create resources that improve our lexicogenetic abilities (such as a more productive morphemicon, augmented grammars, augmented notation, or skill with making words (thinking of metaphors, using the morphemicon, clarifying / factoring ideas to put words to, etc.)), then we will be better able to think at the edge in the language of thinking at the edge.
All note-taking systems hitherto have failed for a simple reason: they do not ask thinking what it needs. (I think you appreciate this already, just restating.) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CoqFpaorNHsWxRzvz/what-comes-after-roam-s-renaissance?commentId=CNK44LqKyh2EQZpJm
I agree with your point that we should be looking to the human as the starting point. In fact, I think this means we should be asking for MENTAL tools for thinking FIRST. Maybe possibly LATER we could use software to help thinking, if it asks for it.
The mental tool we should be looking at is LEXICOGENESIS. I’ve written about this at length: “The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis” But to summarize for this context: if we create resources that improve our lexicogenetic abilities (such as a more productive morphemicon, augmented grammars, augmented notation, or skill with making words (thinking of metaphors, using the morphemicon, clarifying / factoring ideas to put words to, etc.)), then we will be better able to think at the edge in the language of thinking at the edge.