Recently I stumbled on Julian Elve's Digital Garden 
in which he captures reflections by Mike Caulfield regarding stream and state modes, a theoretical framing of Caulfield's metaphoric Stream/Garden paradigm:
Applying a conscious set of processes to the acquisition, classification, development, repurposing and sharing of new, personally-applicable knowledge.
> Different tools favour different modalities, called out by various writers as the difference between "Garden" (aka State Mode) and "Stream" (aka Stream Mode).