A new way to consume content

A couple facts:

• Content is only getting richer and more powerful, thanks to multimedia, new publishing platforms and services that attract great writers and new ways it can be used.
• Consuming and making the most out of that content takes time and attention — we often can’t find the time to do it, but what’s perhaps even worse, when we do, our minds drift left and right, drawn to notifications, emails, sounds, and we are fool to believe we are in fact great and multitasking, and, you know, whatever, I ‘ll get back to reading this later. I won’t.
• We want to consume all the content in the world. We are insatiable like that.

People spend (or waste, if you prefer) a great deal of time daily into reading and consuming content. The ultimate goal of consuming content is, in the long run, to figure out what the best parts are so that they can come in handy when we are evaluating the way the world models work.

That process takes time, effort, patience and devotion. That’s also a process that’s being repeated by far too many people.

Now, you may say that you need to “experience” content in order to spot its best parts and you could be right. We just can’t make the time, muster the will required to silence/mask distractions and really make the most out it.

What if there was a way for people to collectively digest articles? A way to store and share our notes and thoughts on the content we consume (be that a long-form article, a video presentation etc) so that everyone can be benefited from our “work”?

A wiki-way, if you will, to collect the best parts of content (defined by a URI) into a single/centralized pool so that everyone can get access to this value easily and quickly?

And,

what if this pool of digested valuable content is also accessible (API) to both publishers and developers so they can build upon them?

Would that make the world a better place, just a tiny bit?

I believe it would.

The notes above are some scattered thoughts on a project I intent to work next year.