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Posted by 22111
Oct 22, 2020 at 11:59 AM
(To further answer this “not advertised as” thing, even in this forum, some users, over the years, have always pretended that they use TB as others would use UltraRecall, e.g., i.e. as a repository for all their stuff, the graphical representation on top - but it’s futile, it’s obviously not me here who pretends TB doesn’t live up to its “stuff repository” promise. In UR, a very high number of items will not break it (as I have said several times; have never trialled its work group suitability though), and, for example, MemoMaster claims to be suitable for work groups with several hundreds seats. I always (mis-?)understood TB’s claim as “just like UR, but so much better since you get the pic!” - It’s not me who pretends here, “TB is sort of a hybrid offer which then doesn’t really fulfill any of its different claims”, but from what that poster above pretends, in combination then with what real, unsatisfied users say in the discussions linked above, people could, wrongly, infer exactly that - I don’t mislead people… Totally futile, as said. TB’s problem is, highly probably, not failing robustness (anymore), but that they very probably have a clear picture of what TB should attain, representation-wise (as I have, and those users have - citing them here would extend too much what I wanted to give as immediate info here, and since it’s all there and available…), but without having the coding means to get there quickly. Competing, in the meanwhile, with MindJet - which, from the coding efforts, is much more “available” to them indeed - is a dead end, as those threads clearly show. And then, I’m not forced to give third-party “sources” to ANY of my opinions; allegations being another category.)
Posted by 22111
Oct 22, 2020 at 12:14 PM
(And to go even further into the depths of “meta”: Chat: because that unwanted window was OVER the info I wanted to read; Chat publication: because of Matt’s obvious not wanting to transfer the chat to TB hierarchy; “Never offer a chat thing”: first have the means, then get the manpower… or not: it’s unlaid eggs anyway, for the time being. If then you decide for, not against: don’t follow the strategy of holding users/prospects at arm’s length by it, as so many do. It’s not the tool that’s bad, it’s it specific kind of deploy - I’m surprised I have to remind of that. But as said, all this is futile “meta”, nothing to do with what I had been trying to say. But de-constructing the constructive, that’s today’s standards - de-industrialization of the Western World, anyone? Yeah, it’s difficult to get to the arguments, when most of your efforts are forced to go into futile sidelines - or you just ignore them, and then the casual readers will get wrong impressions… Gosh, it’s really arduous, to get thru even tiny bits of info, nowadays.)
Posted by 22111
Oct 22, 2020 at 12:54 PM
And finally, without parentheses again, when I said, “Hopefully not yet” in my title, I was serious. For the time being, NO ONE has implemented CORRECT “info management”, “info” employed here in its broadest sense: Since the CORE of that “IM” being “live management”: sub-parts of “info 1” also belong (now, or in the future: so, how to get them there in the future? “tagging”?: haha! AI? well… if those “9 AI hopes” do it, they also will have all our “info”: aware of that, too, yes?) to other “subjects”, “projects”, “cases”, “developments”, “elaborations”, “strategies”, whatever, and those sub-parts, they are chang(l)ing, too, in-between… and after their “external use”, within those other “projects”, etc., so 2) how to cope, with all that, and 1) to begin with, how to make AVAILABLE POSSIBLE but probably useful (single or compound) “elements from even far away”? (And, as said, those “compounds” changing all the time?)
Within my chat, I “discarded” lots of very smart observations from those threads BUT I cited an intermediate, very partial (! but well… better than nothing!) solution for at least facilitating, as little as it gets, “connecting”, and to say it all, this “connection window”, in UR (see above) e.g., is, unfortunately, VERY substandard… whilst being the best “offer” you currently get.
Some years ago, the UR developer told me (citing from memory here), “UR already has got lots of lists/panes”... well, no.
(But that’s things people who utter, “I feel with you, Matt” will never grasp.)
Posted by 22111
Oct 22, 2020 at 03:22 PM
You could say your “knowledge” base is “plastic”, and worse, that’s true for the possible “sources”, as for the finalities / evolving targets / “cases”/“projects”/whatever “info” / ideas / whatever could be helpful in. TB’s “plex”, then, is some sort of a promise you could “HANDLE” this never-ending task (“it’s all before your eyes”... or then not… and there are no “flags” arousing your interest…), whilst in fact, it can’t do it for you, and btw, most of “crimping” is motivated by the not-acknowledged but always pre-conscient truth that for the time being, no software tool really helps you with this, so you replace one with another, pure “change” becoming a substitute for progress…
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 23, 2020 at 02:26 PM
First of all your writing style is highly confusing, thats why nobody participates in this discussion. You write like someone who recovers from a recent stroke. Whatever i have to agree with this one
>in my title, I was serious. For the time being, NO ONE has implemented
>CORRECT “info management”, “info” employed here in its broadest sense:
Make this “knowledge management” and i agree.
There are lots of studies that neither searching nor tagging is what people do.
They just browse so links and info organization are the most important management feature for knowledge.
I recommend this book “The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff ” from 2018.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/0262035170/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>future? “tagging”?: haha! AI? well… if those “9 AI hopes” do it, they
AI is the most futile and overhyped technology i have seen, doing very very few things a little better. Enough things to make Orwell look modern but not for the intelligence part of it. But it’s where investors spend money so companies are hyping it.
No AI is going to save you. Its pure manual processing of information and will always be, because if AI helps you too much (which it will not) it will take your HI (human intelligence) away.