Is This Anything? 14
Historically, a lot of my externalized knowledge is stored in chat apps. That is: if a friend sends me a link in whatsapp I don't need to store it anywhere else, because if I ever want to find it again I will associate it with that person and know to search for it in our chat history.
By contrast, if I find a link myself I have to bookmark it, and might never find it again if I forget in which of several possible places I did that. Over time I've worked to be more organized and store things I read/learn/think more cohesively regardless. But I do think there's something social to knowledge, and I wish knowledge-retention apps (of various kinds) made more effort to embed bits of knowledge in the social part of my brain.
We need more words for how well you can/can't hear people on the phone. When people say "can you hear me?" I want a succinct way to differentiate
1) I can hear you but you are quiet
2) I can hear you but there is more background noise than I would prefer, it is annoying
3) I can hear you 100% perfectly for 95% of the time, but intermittently it cuts out
Honestly the phone screen should ask me to vote, while we're speaking, on how good the call quality is, and show that to the other person, so that if the quality is not-great but not so bad that I'm going to complain about it, the person still finds out that e.g. talking on speakerphone consistently creates a much worse experience for their counterpart.