Most "note-taking" or "knowledge management" software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember to go looking for them.

Most of us have an ulterior motive beyond writing notes – we want to remember, understand, synthesise ideas, come to confident conclusions, generate new ideas informed by historical and social events, write coherent essays, or work through difficult problems.

we've yet to see note-taking software that actively facilitates and encourages these workflows. They are, for the most part, still behaving like storage boxes.

Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write programmatic rules that facilitate particular ways of working with your notes.

the goal of these is to encourage practices like reflection, synthesis, connection, and serendipity. The goal is not to simply amass notes.

Augmenting human cognition is still the end goal here.