@andy_matuschak with @eriktorenberg on tools for thinking, and especially the future of books!https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/designing-and-developing-new-tools-for-t …
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Nobody even recognizes what a hypertext book is. http://Meaningness.com says “this is a book” on every page, yet nearly everyone refers to it as a blog. “Blog”—a collection of essays structured only by publication date—is the only recognized form of self-published web site.
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“You should publish this as an eBook". Duuude, what for? You're reading it on a screen now, and the experience is far richer than a bad electronic imitation of a dead tree. And still so much more is possible than the half-baked affordances I worked intohttp://meaningness.com
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eBooks are so crippled that there’s more innovation in dead trees. For example, Anne Pendleton-Jullian &
@jseelybrown’s Design Unbound has a nonlinear structure with this nifty navigational aid in the front:pic.twitter.com/KAfPKLFkaA
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In their Quantum Country textbook,
@michael_nielsen and Andy have innovated in several dimensions, most excitingly by building in Anki-style spaced-repetition reminders as a retention tool.https://quantum.country/qcvcShow this thread -
I am hoping to write a Meta-Systematicity Workbook to follow up The Cofounders. Michael and Andy’s experiment has inspired me to rethink that, with interactive features that (I hope) will deepen your understanding, engagement, and recall of principles.https://meaningness.com/cofounders-in-relationship …
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Here is a page from a beautiful, innovative hypertext book, explaining why it is NOT available as an eBook or pdf. Ironically, the book itself is about print typography! https://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf.html …
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An odd thing about this: I’m writing tons of hypertext now, but I (most days?) think of it as notes for myself, to be turned into linear manuscripts before wide publication. In part that’s because hypertext reading UX has so many challenges! Very curious about solving them...
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What tool are you using for that?
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That sounds approximately hugely wrong: 1/
@munificentbob's https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ 2/@SmartBiology3D textbook: https://www.smart-biology.com/ 3/@dresdencodak's Dark Science: http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/ … 4/@BartoszMilewski's CT text:https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/ … -
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@mikitotakada's books: http://book.mixu.net/ 6/@analyticphysics: http://analyticphysics.com/ 7/@glennelert's set: https://hypertextbook.com/ 8/@internetinghard: https://internetingishard.com/ 9/ HtDP for@racketlang: https://htdp.org/ 10/@mbutterick's https://practicaltypography.com/
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