Julian, Hi! Zettel and capture/think/process systems abound. While i have made my way through many of them and as they continue to improve and iterate, one thing i've learned/observed over the years is that interop is what drives a "new" app into the mainstream.

Rather than suggest a particular system/workflow (especially the one that is my current favorite), I'll suggest "big-impact" ones i think your team should develop for:

(caution, Apple is actively developing for your use cases, so it may be difficult to stay ahead of the curve!)

Those being said, here are the leaders in PKM platforms:

(capacities has several competitors. note that nyt hardfork podcast endorsed capacities, which is how i discovered it)

Mike O Fantastic--thank you for providing all this insight!

I think a quick win will be to make sure each Zettel sharable individually via the share sheet. Currently we only allow sharing the meeting summary as a whole via the share sheet (although we do allow sharing individual Hedy conversation points), so getting more granular is a good idea.

Integrating with Zapier is a great idea too, and obviously opens up all sorts of interoperability opportunities.

I think we'll prioritize those two, and then grow the feature from there.

P.S. hardfork fan here too :D

Mike O We're close to being done with implementing the highlights feature. I'd love to get your take on how to format the content to share in markdown. Here's what we currently are looking at using. Is there something you would change to make it work better with PKM tools?

---

created: 2024-11-11T14:54:14.107525

type: highlight

source: "Introduction to Modern Cosmology: Historical Perspective and Evolution"

tags: [hedy-highlight]

---

## Quote

> And that happened sometime in the '60s. I was a young student. And before that, cosmology was in a certain sense less like physics and more like natural science, like what a naturalist does. Studies this kind of thing, studies that kind of thing. You find a funny star over there, you find a galaxy over there that's a little weird, you classify main things, you measure things to be sure. But the accuracy with which things were known was so poor that it was extremely difficult to be precise about it.

## Summary

The speaker describes how cosmology transformed from a largely observational and classificatory field into a more precise physical science during the 1960s, marking a significant shift in the discipline.

## Analysis

This is a pivotal moment in the lecture as it establishes a clear historical turning point in the field of cosmology, specifically the transition from a descriptive, classification-based approach to a more rigorous, physics-based discipline. The speaker's personal experience as a student during this transformation adds credibility to the account while also humanizing this significant shift in scientific methodology. The contrast between the earlier "naturalist" approach and the more precise methods that followed helps students understand why modern cosmology is considered a relatively young science despite its ancient roots.

## Context

Julian so cool. BRAVO!

i'm making more use of digital Zettel cards from content I come across by way of the share sheet. Currently I am using capacities.io to capture them and link them inside their text by @mention to other "proper noun" Capacities objects in my life. I can also apply #tags to the Zettel where a proper noun @mention is not appropriate.

For me, missing in your example is a Title block. This is the essence of the Zettel. It encompasses a "single thought". Then the sections beneath it further detail that thought. This might be tough for Hedy to compose a clear and concise title, but I'm having great success with this kind of thing when composing enhancement requests or defect reports. I copy/paste the body into Claude Opus via Perplexity.ai and tell it to compose a clear and concise title in the style of a defect or enhancement request in the SDLC methodology.

Here is an example of a Zettel in my list, taken from a "share at this time index" of a podcast I was listening to. (I composed the title for this without the help of AI.)

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Mike O: Thanks for the feedback! I agree that coming up with a title on the fly will be tricky, but we're giving it a shot. Here is the revised markdown share format. Additional feedback is always welcome!

---

created: 2024-11-12T15:53:04.912033

type: highlight

source: "Untitled Session"

tags: [hedy-highlight]

---

## Main Idea

The universe exhibits a property called isotropy, meaning that when viewed at a large enough scale and averaged over sufficient areas, it appears uniform regardless of the direction of observation. While local variations exist (such as individual stars or nearby galactic structures), the large-scale structure of the universe demonstrates remarkable consistency across all viewing angles when observed beyond our immediate galactic neighborhood.

## Original Context

> Now, the first observation, which may not turn out to be absolutely true for reasons that - it's not absolutely true, but it looks like it's approximately true - is that the universe is what is called isotropic. Isotropic means that when you look in that direction, or that direction, or that direction, or that direction - now of course if you look right at a star, it looks a little different than if you look away from the star - but on the whole, averaging over patches in the sky, and looking out far enough so that you get away from the immediate foreground of our own galaxy, the universe looks pretty much the same in every direction.

## Analysis

The isotropic nature of the universe is a fundamental principle that has profound implications for our understanding of cosmic evolution and structure formation. This property suggests that there is no preferred direction or special location in the universe, supporting the cosmological principle that the laws of physics are uniform throughout space. This observation has been crucial in developing modern cosmological models and theories about the universe's origin and evolution.

## Metadata

Julian LOVE IT. Can't wait to try it.