The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought‘Tools for Thought’ (TfT) has undergone a quiet but significant change in meaning since its origins in the 1980s.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830850
isbn
979-8-4007-2564-7
name
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought
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acm_url
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830850
authors
Mark W R Anderson
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830850
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
‘Tools for Thought’ (TfT) has undergone a quiet but significant change in meaning since its origins in the 1980s.
keywords
Tools for Thought; TfT; Personal Knowledge Management; PKM; Personal Information Management; PIM; hypertext; note-taking; Tinderbox; Obsidian; Roam; Tiddlywiki; wikis; Web; no-code/low-code; outliners; linking; transclusion; maps; Zettelkasten; AI; block-level; addressability
published
2026-09-14
conference
HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830850
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Information systems~Wikis; • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia ; • Applied computing → Hypertext / hypermedia creation ;
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Mark W R Anderson
proceedings_url
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
displayPublishTime
2026-09-14
acm_reference_format
ACM Reference Format: Mark W R Anderson. 2026. The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 13 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830850