John Gruber, writing about Google’s “Personal Intelligence” feature:

But a big one for me — an inveterate note-taker — would be my notes app. I’d rather have an AI assistant know everything in my notes app than everything in my email.

I’m eagerly awaiting AI on the Mac/iPad/iPhone to be able to look at my files, calendar events, tasks in OmniFocus, and notes to provide assistance with traversing my day and synthesizing my collected knowledge. My version of the library in the Knowledge Navigator video is the driver seat of my 2013 Mustang GT, but pretty much everything else is aspirational.

I’ll go a step further and say that I’d like to for Notes to itself turn into a kind of chatbot. I created a Shortcut that uses Apples Private Cloud Compute to take a query and copy the results to the clipboard. I had originally set it up to create a new note in Notes.

And that’s partly how I think it should work: You open a new note in Notes, ask a question, and you can keep the whole conversation in the note, adding metadata later.

Another neat application of Private Cloud Compute is featured in a the new version of OmniOutliner, which is version six. One of the automations you can add to Outliner is to create an outline from your clipboard. My shortcut is perfect for getting an outline started on a new topic.