The Core Idea Infokit is essentially asking: what does a personal computing environment look like if we design it intentionally, from first principles, for how people actually think and work today?
The Historical Thread The birth of personal computing was full of radical, humanist ambitions — Engelbart's augmentation of intellect, Kay's Dynabook, Nelson's hypertext and Xanadu. Most of those visions never fully materialized. The desktop metaphor was a pragmatic compromise that stuck far longer than it should have. Infokit implicitly carries that "unfinished business" energy.
The Post-Desktop Thread We're in an interesting moment — the desktop metaphor is finally cracking. Spatial computing, AI-native interfaces, and tools like Obsidian or Notion are all groping toward something new. But nobody has quite landed on what replaces it. That's fertile ground.
The Neurodivergent Thread This is perhaps the most underexplored and important angle. Most interfaces are designed for a neurotypical, linear thinker. But knowledge workers — especially neurodivergent ones — often think in networks, tangents, and associations. Designing for that isn't a niche concern, it's actually designing for how all human cognition works at its best.
The Semantic Network Thread This ties the technical ambition together — knowledge represented not as files and folders but as nodes, relationships, and meaning. It echoes the original web's unfulfilled promise and connects to modern graph-based tools and AI reasoning.
What Infokit ultimately represents A personal information environment — deliberately assembled, philosophically grounded, and built around the individual's cognitive style rather than corporate software defaults. Less a product review site, more an ongoing design inquiry into the question:
"What should my relationship with information actually look like?"
It sits at a genuinely interesting crossroads of history, philosophy, interface design, and practical tooling. There aren't many voices doing all of that together coherently
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Disclaimer: This text is partially made of a session with Claude Sonnet 4.6, prompted on 8th of March 2026, while discussing the Infokit mission statement.