Similarly, people greatly overestimate the benefits of brevity in writing, especially on the web. When an essay is riveting, people want more, not less. Tolkien's criticism of his own "The Lord of the Rings" was apt: "the book is too short".https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1230309034248392705 …
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I'm not surprised. Folding/structural editing/'orthodox editors' were widespread in the early Engelbart/Lisp/hypertext ecosystems, and it's very obvious to apply that to docs as much as code. One could add a scrollbar to go through the levels I describe. All HTML, after all.
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(This scrollbar wouldn't necessarily be too useful for me, unfortunately, because most of the structure has been added only relatively recently, and it's a lot of work to retrofit collapsed sections/margin notes/list highlights/link-annotations onto pre-September-2019 stuff.)
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I find I can read much better with folding lists. I mean MUCH better. It’s worth the time of copying an essay into that format for the benefit in comprehension and ease of reading.
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I like that I can isolate only the bit I’m reading at that moment, and in making those levels I naturally understand the structure better. Also I find paragraphs too long- generally split them multiple times into individual thoughts
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