Evernot is a tool with furniture in it. It affords certain use cases because these objects are familiar to you. And so people kind of go out, i can kind of use it like that. I think it's on when you start to struggle with scale and certain types of very advanced use cases where information is not tangible things but abstract constructs. Somebody invented these things, and they exists in this the screen. People just decided to call them folders, and then suddenly people think they're folders. Oh, no, it's not really a folder. You knowi's it's all of thatigt where they're not physical, tangible things. They're just abstract constructs.
Boon Yew Chew is a strategic designer at Elsevier and a leader in IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. In this conversation, we delve into Roam Research, which Boon uses to take notes and tame “an ever-evolving multi-dimensional beast of knowledge.”
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