# The future of building and sharing knowledge — Enter Scrintal > Hello! If you’re reading this, you’re probably surfing the rabbit holes of the internet, 50 tabs deep into yet another article, feeling confused while making… - Address: https://scrintal.com/blog/the-future-of-building-and-sharing-knowledge-enter-scrintal - Blog post by Ece Kural, published by Scrintal - Published: 2021-10-20 - Updated: 2023-09-04 - Topics: Knowledge, Internet, Startup, Storytelling, Information ## The future of building and sharing knowledge — Enter Scrintal Hello! If you’re reading this, you’re probably surfing the rabbit holes of the internet, 50 tabs deep into yet another article, feeling confused while making your way through endless information. Hear us out though, we feel your pain. We are on a mission to make the internet a place for knowledge. Connected, accessible, and open knowledge…This is a short story on what motivated us to start Scrintal and the future of knowledge building and sharing. It all started with me, [Ece](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ece-kural/). For my doctoral thesis, I spent one year creating the first ever dataset on what global actors do to stop climate change. Then I spent three more years trying to publish and share my results with the world. By the time I managed to get others to read my research, the data was already out of date. Do you see the problem here? First, building knowledge is incredibly time-consuming and exhaustive. Second, our ways of sharing knowledge are outdated. Unfortunately, this is not specific to a company or sector. The difficulty of building knowledge behind closed doors impedes innovation, and constrains society’s ability to progress on a global scale. Thinking that there should be a better paradigm to make knowledge open & accessible, [Furkan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkanbayraktar/) and I teamed up. Although we were in completely different worlds, our problem was similar: dozens of articles, hundreds of websites, and numerous videos come together to create a ***single*** idea. Valuable knowledge and information always fall through the cracks, even though information is endless. However, building knowledge is only one side of the problem. The other side of the problem is how we share it. ## The internet is not synonymous with knowledge Thanks to the modern web, there are almost [2 billion websites available and 4.6 billion people](https://www.internetlivestats.com) have access. In our digital lives today, information is everywhere. Let’s assume that we need to find out what evolution is or who invented a specific data model. We can easily come across dozens of definitions and answers to the *what, who, where* and *when*. However, accessing knowledge is exclusive. *Why* and *how* the theories of evolution are linked to one another or whether that data model is *applicable* to our software architecture are either not on the internet or will require hours of research and leave us with question marks. The why and how aspects of information are digitally out of reach. Knowledge is still created behind closed doors and only shared when it’s finished. We share the end result, but never the steps behind it. We share when our companies hit revenue milestones, but never our marketing process. We share our research findings, but never the ideation. We don’t even share our study notes, thinking that they belong to us, and us only. These are big problems, as humanity is overwhelmed by the questions none of us can solve alone. [Climate change will not be solved by one scientist.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/29/johan-rockstrom-interview-breaking-boundaries-attenborough-biden) Without an open process for creating knowledge, creators lack crucial contributions. At the same time, the community misses out on knowledge already being developed. This is the case in every industry and profession, whether it be students, startup founders, creators, thinkers or researchers. We have come to an age where [shared patents](https://www.tesla.com/about/legal#patent-pledge), [software developed in communities](https://github.com/readme/featured/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter), and crowdsourcing to large scale problems are needed more than ever. Through the modern internet, humanity took a huge step into making information accessible to anyone, everywhere. Now, it’s time for us to take the next step; achieving collective knowledge. Collective knowledge resembles the “memory” or “collective mind” of humanity. Achieving this shared mind requires so much more than creating a mess of information. It requires an open process displaying how the knowledge is created. ## We believe there is a better way forward. ***An easier path to building open & accessible knowledge around the world.*** To us, achieving this mission means creating [Scrintal](https://scrintal.com/). A way to make knowledge more connected, accessible, and open. Scrintal is defining a ***new category for knowledge work,*** designed by researchers to empower all creators, thinkers, students, and learners. ![](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/786ec7bc-fa4f-4144-8444-462bd5d6ec2e/the-future-of-building-and-sharing-knowledge-enter-scrintal-2.webp) As a first step, Scrintal is the easiest system to ***organize, connect*** and ***share*** knowledge in a visual way. We’re starting our big mission with a small but firm beginning, connecting ideas and sources through notes. In our first version we are building a desk with visual connections and effortless organisation, all without a folder system. Next will come public sharing and everything else to give us a new operating system for knowledge building. ## Knowledge builders — this is our moment. Behind Scrintal is a community of thinkers, doers, and researchers. [Join the other ***65,000+*** individuals](https://scrintal.com/) involved in creating this movement, while we do our part in designing Scrintal — a workspace to make knowledge building easier, more accessible, and open to the world. 👾🕹️👾 You choose what’s next: \[1\] Check out what we’re building — [Scrintal](https://scrintal.com/) \[2\] [Calling all innovators — We’re hiring](https://scrintal.com/about#open-roles)! \[3\] Aligned with our purpose? Get in touch with us at hello@scrintal.com --- Scrintal (https://scrintal.com) is a visual note-taking and research app. All pages and articles: https://scrintal.com/llms.txt