I've noticed a similar phenomenon: getting tired of networks and algorithms. I wrote a short essay with my thoughts on "Well Being in Times of Algorithms" [1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352747

Now this is the most shameless plug I've ever seen. Congrats.

They have one of the best articles out there, and now the page is great too. Fun and innovative. My favorite article, in case you haven't read it already, is local-first [1], or I recently read the embark, dynamic documents for making plans. These always give me so much inspiration.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ [2] https://www.inkandswitch.com/embark/

Wow, embark is very well done! I feel like there is some sort of solution space between notes, whiteboards, jupyter notebooks and Arcan FE that could make knowledge organization much easier, but it's such a huge space to even comprehend in the first place I can only ever hold part of the solution in my head.

I also enjoyed Muse[1], which was made available in the iOS app store, and is now being maintained as "Allume"[2] (an unnamed company bought the Muse name).

Essentially a digital pinboard, it was an interesting experiment in "designed for tablet" UX and was developed far enough to be an app. The gesture based UX, nested board, PDF reader, and transclusion of PDF fragments are all interesting ideas.

[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse/ [2]: https://allume.com/

I really love this one on dynamic documents as well:

Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/

TLDR:

1. If consumed by a human, it should also be written by one

2. It's hard to finish an idea that's not yours

3. If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI

4. AI won't replace human writing (as writing is thinking)

I do the same. Cherish the moments, not the pictures.

a 100% :)

Fully agreed.

This was specific to writing, and it is sometimes the hardest thing to finalize and get out there, it's sometimes ultra hard, so there's time when you definitely don't enjoy it. But overall, I agree that you should enjoy it, and this is also what. I guess the same counts for coding.

Check out the Markdown editor Inkdrop on the website yourself, just click on it and play around. https://www.inkdrop.app/

I use a single Docker container [1] to run a full VM on Linux, and it works like a charm for Excel and Word when I still need them.

[1] https://github.com/dockur/windows

While I use Claude a lot for my Omarchy plugins and Linux optimization/failure detection, I don’t use it for writing and note-taking, especially for coming up with unique ideas and driving them home by writing them through to the end.

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI.

It's also hard to finish an idea that is mine.

hehe :D