Organizing lots of thought snippets

Posted by Prion
Jan 26, 2015 at 02:20 PM

Paul Korm wrote:
On the Mac, there is DEVONthink (as Steve Z
>mentioned) which has its “AI” feature: select a note and choose “See
>Also” from the menu and you’ll see a list of notes that the software
>calculated as being relate by examining the text. DEVONthink is pretty
>good at this. (There’s an essay by author Steven Berlin somewhere that
>discusses this feature.) DEVONthink also has a “Classify” command that
>will put your note in a folder with notes that the software evaluated as
>being related.

Devonthink can be very useful although personally I think that the Steven Berlin essay you referred to is sometimes taken way too…religiously.

>Tinderbox (also mentioned above) will suggest related
>notes, also using the textual context.
>

Or more precisely: Tinderbox used to do that, it seems that the feature disappeared during the transition to version 6 and still has not reappeared. It will hopefully do so but for anyone looking for this feature now, Tbx is not the way to go. Or perhaps I am overlooking it?