ThinkingTools, softwares which helps in ThinkingProcess

Posted by David Garner
Feb 17, 2021 at 01:27 PM

Hi Newbee,

I am also interested in a list of ThinkingTools (software, which helps with the many aspects of the thinking process) and also PKM (Personal Knowledge Management), Information Storing Apps and lots of other aspects of available software.

I’m also not sure where to draw the line between the various types of software that are available to help us live better, more interesting lives, using computers.

You said: “I want to curate, a list”. That’s interesting. Can you share how you envision this list being used and what form it might take, to be the most useful to the most people? Are you trying to sell it to others as a way to attract some kind of business customers? Is it a part of a homework assignment, as suggested by others on this forum, or part of a doctorial (or other higher education effort) research project? Do you intend to make it freely available to the general public? If so, what would that look like?

I’m asking, because it seems like others are interested in where you are coming from, so they can know how much effort it is worth, for them, to contribute to your desired outcome. I’m also asking, because I’m trying to FIND the list you are wanting to CURATE. I’m not even convinced that I have a good idea what such a list would best look like.

If you have done any research in this forum, you have probably already found that I asked a similar type of question a little while ago. If so, you should have already found a bunch of very helpful replies which were provided by users to me. I’m not sure they have answered your question specifically, but they pointed me to many, many interesting projects/software tools that might be of some interest to you as well.

In my quest, for a better understanding, of the landscape, I encountered: https://www.theproductivists.club/ which is another (much smaller, I think) forum that has interesting people and discussions on these kinds of topics. If you have not already found it, or the associated “the productivists” Discord community discussion server, I would recommend you join there and introduce yourself.

One other place, that I have found to be quite interesting, is: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/. Might not be as interesting to you, but I think it’s worth a look.

If you know of other such places, I’d love to hear about them. I’m still searching for a better way to find and share for information about the above kinds of topics.

Sorry, that’s all I have on the “Tip of my Finger”, for now, except “Google is Your Friend”.

David Garner