I just splice a chunk or 3 of your post into my longish “Conversations in Motion” at MozDawg. (The title is an allusion to cognitive ergonomics, “information in action”.)
While the post as a whole actually replies to a couple of other of this day’s posts in other blogs, yours really got me grokking.

It relates to what I tweeted at you earlier: (expanded version) “Years ago I had a uniquely handy writing tool, something like cross-breed of programmer’s editor and wordprocessor; it stored snippets of text in buffers to be recalled and stitched together later. “ThinkingCap”, by Bröderbund Software … for the C=64!”

NEPOMUK … unless we’re insane then our activities are inexorably bound together by ?what? something … the fabric of time/space itself, to get trippy. But that’s nothing more than mandala theory … there are no problems here, IMNSHO except (as I grumpily stated in my blog) that we’re too often tool-oriented instead of task-oriented.

ThoughtLiners. That ThinkingCap was one of a very small few (There was an even earlier analog, for the Apple IIE) shows how we’ve lost that existential basis. Or, at least, our tool-smythes have.

This tool-smythe hasn’t. (Which may explain why I’m having to make due with a 300MHz machine!)

appreciating your sane voice in this mad mad world

–bentrem