Re: Absent Hoisting or a Deeper Problem; A Question about Idea!

It seems to me there’s no way around clutter ultimately other than planning. Some programs position the planning before considerable data entry, as does Idea! and from what I hear, Zoot even more so; in others, like UR, one really must reorganize and prune data. I don’t think the idea of one big data repository that cares for itself is going to be workable, at least not until a considerable higher order of AI becomes available.

But if data are pruned, I don’t think most users will experience an ever-expanding database, because there’s also a limit to how much data is actually usable. Google and large disk drives have popularized the concept that you can just retain everything. I don’t think it’s realistic.