PKM History MOC
This map traces the conceptual lineage behind the vault's design: from early visions of associative knowledge to collaborative augmentation and modern shared-memory systems. It is less a chronology of software products than a map of the ideas that explain why the Nest is structured the way it is.
The Visionaries
Read these in order if you want the cleanest intellectual path into the cluster.
- memex: Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision of associative linking.
- augmenting-human-intellect: Douglas Engelbart's framework for boosting human capability.
- collective-iq: The goal of using networked knowledge to solve complex problems.
Narrative Through-Line
The cluster has a clear progression:
- memex defines the idea of associative trails rather than hierarchical filing.
- augmenting-human-intellect reframes tools as part of a larger human-language-artifact-method system.
- collective-iq scales augmentation from the individual to the organization.
That progression is the historical substrate under llm-wiki-pattern, wiki-as-codebase, and the vault's multi-agent collaboration model.
Where To Start
- If you want the origin point, start with memex.
- If you want the strongest conceptual bridge into modern agent tooling, start with augmenting-human-intellect.
- If your question is organizational knowledge rather than individual tooling, start with collective-iq.