best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately

Posted by doablesoftware
Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM

there are no softwares/sites/apps currently in this world that enable or helps you reach this goal:

* find the info you want near-immediately

* and without putting a high cognitive load on the user

but could apps/sites be designed in a better way to afford this? that’s an interesting question but the answer is that there most likely would be. simply cos something isnt designed doesnt mean it cant be, obvisly

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a simple example: one of the many things ive been looking for indirectly/passively over time is easy ways to do this: when computers starts, it shows a full screen list or full screen note on all virtual desktops

* i dunno if this would be found, but if it’s unlikely that’s oses and desktops arent designed for this

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so when we think about what are the best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately

* that would ofc lead to the good designs of apps/sites

the ways that ppl have of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately are commonly very complex, this is cos ppl are going around the extreme of current softwares, they’re making workarounds for the bad poor design of continual status quo of softwareland

but in case someoen out tehre has best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately without putting a high cognitive load on the user, im interested in what they are

1 year from now is fine, i dont check things often anyhow, and i think my last post on this site was 2 years ago or something

if you knew about all best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately and are able to rank them, that would be great

if not, thats ok i can rank the options based on what options are mentioned in the comments

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edit: one thing that comes to mind right now is distributing info across various software, a type of compartmentalization method, but ofc like with many things, there’s lots of limits here like you have to remember where you have put things, and since softwares arent named apparioately for the info you’ve stored in said softwares, then isnt helpfuling either, nor can you changed/edit the name of the software on ur computer, whcih ofc is basic feature/function that should be possible

but having info distrubutied across many bad apps/sites isnt neccessarily any better than having them on one actually good tool

the brain obvisuly isnt a good softwaer, neurosci has shown there to be many many incredible flaws and limits to our otherwise incredible brains, and thats the purpose of software, to help our dumb brains just like ml-driven self-driving are there to help us also, as like with all other robots, digital or not

so we have a software problem for this simple goal right here: best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately, and maybe theres ppl in the world like 1 person who’s working on this problem. bu its clearly not google

do you know how much spam and garbage is on google, do you know any of the highest qulaity things on the web could not easiely be found on google? are any other search engines better? i dunno, i dunno there’s been any extensive/good meta-analysis tests on this

one thing that we do know is that we cant fundamentally change the nature of info, in the forms they come such as language, etc we can alter and modidry that in some ways but its very limited what we can do in terms of changing the forms in which info arrives and would pre-packaged, so we know that this is gonna be one set/default restriction/limitation/constraint to the overalll design

anyway, best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately without putting a high cognitive load on the user?