have no idea what these ideas mean… are they critical or colloquial? humous opinion, reinforceing collective norms, or word of God carved in tablets (yep, that’s a reference to Moses and his God, Mark, I guess you are one of the two in this metaphor!).
which segues into my point: one of the main appeals of Lego and similar products is the self-evident in the way it clips together, it either does or it doesn’t hold together. be it an intended method of joining blocks, deemed fit for purpose by Lego™ in their kits or otherwise (for which there are many techniques used by their customers that take time to make there way into offical lego kit sold at retail stores).*
TB is not so easy to clip together and in my humble but limited experience not so easy to no where to start with when one wants to do more than a basic child-parent/sibling relationship for a new note to an existing note. I managed to teach myself CAD/CAM, DTP (in the 80s & 90s), Quartz Composure, Figma, Origami, and countless windows/macOS applications. to progress in Quartz Composer I need to become self-taught in Javascript (that was much harder to learn and definitely required the use of forums and tutorial blogs) so I figure I should be able to get knee deep into TB without too much stress. But stress and confusion abounded and I gave up b/c the value proposition hadn’t delivered enough gain over the other note taking apps I use.
I’ve little doubt that TB is one of the best note and structured-thinking-/mind-map apps in existence today, but as time poor as anyone, I’m not desperate to commute to TB-land for a month at my own expense before realising any value above using various artisan text applications and eMacs.
*I was a huge Lego fan in my youth so I appreciate the use of this metaphor. The way Lego™ sold out to Disney et al was less appealing to me… did they really have to become a Megatron corporation just to avoid implosion, I seriously doubt it, and it’s well known that their indie creator mission was what saved their bacon, not the corporate cross-promotional razzmatazz.