Vannevar Bush

Category: person

Summary: Thinker associated with the Memex idea, an early vision of associative information trails.

Tags: people, history

What it means

Vannevar Bush matters as a historical ancestor of tools for thought. The Memex imagined knowledge navigation through associative links rather than only linear filing.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

This page connects to tools-for-thought, associative-trails, linked-notes, backlinks, and knowledge-graph. It helps explain why links are central to modern PKM systems.

Common mistakes

• Treating links as decoration rather than structure.
• Forgetting that linking should serve thinking and retrieval.

Related pages

• tools-for-thought
• associative-trails
• linked-notes
• backlinks
• knowledge-graph