> Instead of COPYING, we should do REFERRING.<p>I had this idea for over two years. A lot of time, I found myself copying data from one app/website to another. The problem with copying is that: you lose all context of your result.<p>To fix it, I thought instead of copying; we should do refering. Sadly, there is no "Ctrl/Cmd+C" for referring on any OS. As I dug deeper, I found some computer visionaries Ted Nelson also had this idea. Since 2019, PKM tools like RoamResearch, and Obsidian had some progress in making a personal knowledge base with links, but no one has bought the idea of linking/referring to cross-app level.<p>So, ambitiously, I started building my own, and here is my vision: <a href="https://medium.superus.space/my-ideal-solution-to-information-overload-122fda2451a5" rel="nofollow">https://medium.superus.space/my-ideal-solution-to-informatio...</a><p>Key features on my upcoming MVP:<p>- You can place any website on an infinite canvas<p>- You can refer (instead of copy) information by drag and drop<p>- You can navigate through apps/contents with the reference you created<p>- You can visually set up your daily routine (sequence of using many functional apps)
I would suggest looking into the following areas for inspiration as well:<p>- Xanadu and related systems for linking information<p>- CardboardWM (how it does user's working canvas)<p>- Desktop Neo – (<a href="https://desktopneo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://desktopneo.com/</a>) & Muse — dive into big ideas(<a href="https://museapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://museapp.com/</a>)<p>- The ecosystem of templates and tooling for Notion<p>- TreeSheets (<a href="https://strlen.com/treesheets/" rel="nofollow">https://strlen.com/treesheets/</a>)<p>My gut feeling is that going deep into interoperations within apps will be very challenging and require intrinsic knowledge of each platform (always evolving) interfaces.
Something related to this that I would particularly find useful is a tool that summarizes all my daily activities down to who I messaged and estimates the amount of time I spent doing each activity. Basically the iPhone's scree time app on steroids.
Is there a video demonstration of what this does? The marketing video provides no context.<p>Show something before asking users to add to their tool chain YET ANOTHER APP
iOS or Android need to be first-mover on this. Cross-tooling formats are a nightmare. Even copying text from one app to another is problematic.<p>Good luck, but I don't see this coming to fruition without more collaboration from major vendors.