“So for now we probably should use it only for tasks where facts are not important, such as writing letters of recommendation and formulating government policy.”
I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this, but you asked!
What you are building is essentially what Tiago Forte calls a "Second Brain". He has an entire book around Second Brain, as well as the one on PARA.
Ironically, I've found myself using Second Brain less since using PARA because PARA ends up solving my needs without it.
As an example, this week I received a letter from the tax authority where I live. I took the letter, scanned it, and placed it in my PARA/2 Areas/TAXES/2023 folder (since it was in relation to my 2023 taxes). I used a descriptive filename that included what the letter was about and the date.
I didn't need second brain to process the tax letter- what was important is that it was stored quickly and easily, and that I can retrieve it later if need be. I also don't need any complex tagging or keyword systems- the folder and filename help me find the relevant documents, and it takes no more time than adding lots of keywords. I know because I've tried more complex systems, and they ended up being more trouble than they were worth.
But more importantly, I'm not tied to any specific service or software. I'd never use a program that requires me to upload my most sensitive data to a third party service. It would put my data at risk and it would also mean that if the company were to change its business model (like Notion did) or had a breakin, or went out of business, my data would be at risk.
That's why I don't advocate for Second Brain services that do this, even ones with lots of cool features.
I would love automated integrated voice notes (vs what I do now which requires a bit of cut and paste) but the benefits don't outweigh the extremely high cost to me.
There are whole swathes of developers these days who don't even know what a network stack is, much less understand how HTTPS works. I expect these people were gumming up the bug trackers so they dumbed down the dev tools.
Fwiw, though, when I used Python behind a corporate proxy some 5-6 years ago nothing was configured to ignore the HTTPS warnings.
I think developers are especially at risk, because we all think we know the risks and can manage them better... yeah, right lol.
It's like how doctors and nurses are notoriously bad at getting their own health checkups. They're experts, they know better!
Pfft. How many of us actually spend time (and have the knowledge for) auditing the security of our OS, cert chains, HTTPS setup, etc.? I've seen experienced senior devs share private keys over Slack for the whole team to reuse, manually disable HTTPS checks with a comment like "too much trouble", etc. It's pretty scary.
I was amused by a prompt I received from Android Studio, requesting permissions to turn off anti-virus scanning for development directories. Which, of course, speeds up compile time dramatically (4 or 5x faster? A seriously non-trivial amount). Development directories, and SDK directories (including SDK binaries).
No more anti-virus protection for the directories that you as a developer should be most concerned about. What could possibly go wrong?
I'd be more concerned if I hadn't already done that, I suppose. Because compiles run so much faster when you do. But I was amused, nonetheless. :-/
“So for now we probably should use it only for tasks where facts are not important, such as writing letters of recommendation and formulating government policy.”
:-)