Note-taking "software can’t automate your thinking. But I do think it can create the conditions for improved thinking: making new connections between ideas"helping reduce distraction"organizing your reading and making it more useful"Casey then intros a few apps he's started using since his last post, starting with "Ca…

Note-taking apps are "designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?".Casey's info overload is worse then ever: "As a journalist, I’ve never collected as much data as I do now ... browsing four or five social feeds ... arXiv and pre-prints ... [leaves] a stack of research that I will never get through. Book ga…

Casey first gets the Perplexity.ai scandal off his chest: "the Clearview AI of generative artificial intelligence companies: scraping billions of pieces of data without permission and daring courts to stop it. Like Clearview, Perplexity’s core innovation is ethical...".Is the Fediverse a solution? He likes it, but "a partial one... …