Following my recent post, I received email from Rene de Vries in Holland, who runs a Dutch community of interest on knowledge management. Rene worked at Digital during the same period that I did, and I remembered his name from many NOTES conferences. Rene said in his email,
The funny part is that I continue to meet people who have a very fond memory on how Notes (and VTX) was used in Digital. In fact, I still think of it as an example for both corporate culture and the supporting tools to make it work. Some of the knowledge logging (K-LOG) initiatives that are now emerging where already much in vogue in those day.
It reminded me of a note that my friend Karl sent me last December about NOTES:
Maybe it’s like the memory of the taste of my grandmother’s pie, but none of the current collaboration tools beats Notes.
