First, she imagined Reflect4 as an old radio station in a seaside town that had four broadcast towers — north, south, east, and west — each tuned to a different kind of memory. Tower North carried voices of childhood laughter; South hummed with recipes and kitchens; East transmitted stories of journeys and departures; West kept quiet, collecting the small private details people never said out loud. The station’s engineers called their program Reflect4: a nightly list of new things people wanted to remember.
The biggest struggle with networked note-taking apps is "information sprawl." You write a note, link it, and then it disappears into the void.
