When I first read As We May Think* as a teenager, I was astonished by how much it predicted of the computer age in 1945—but recently I’ve been feeling wistful about some pieces it predicts which never came to pass. [thread] *https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ …
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i’m working on a personal system for this designed for writers, inspired by bush and the promise of hypertext as for structural reasons — designers don’t seem to do their reading

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Neat! I look forward to seeing. That latter point does seem to be true more often than I'd like, unfortunately.
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RE: LiquidText + a personal association, have you ever heard of Plan 9 and its `plumber` program? The whole thing is based around having a central text pipeline to do *everything*. A forum user handed us over his Atom package for experimentation:https://github.com/Zettelkasten-Method/atom-plumber …
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This is fantastic; thank you for the reference!
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I’d suggest reading about the ‘Intermedia’ project at Brown in the late 1980’s, see: https://www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Attendee/ViewSessionDocument?eId=lD2p%2BTtrrwk9UlSr4rOEwA%3D%3D&sdId=Q5vta2FbgEchFspIUsLucA%3D%3D … From ‘Intermedia’ session refs of May 2019 symposium https://www.eventleaf.com/brownhypertext#ss …
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‘Intermedia’ aimed to make “linking as easy as copy/paste” with multiple webs of associations. Intermedia webs could reference any atom of any object in the Intermedia corpus, with bidirectional links stored as pairs of references. See the video: https://youtu.be/get7utR_BsU pic.twitter.com/O0WmMsT1M8
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thread about how a shared web of twitter threads kinda-sorta achieves a low-res version of this:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1133066996797468672 …
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I wanna see “types” here. I want to reply to my own tweet to “annotate” which would get a special UI flag and not break threading, or reply to someone’s claim with a “dispute” tweet that can be “resolved”. Basically we’re most of the way to a graph, let’s get there?
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The Science of Managing Our Digital stuff was pretty illuminating for me: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Managing-Digital-Stuff-Press-ebook/dp/B01MRHKPEW/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=managing+our+digital+stuff&qid=1562547356&s=gateway&sr=8-1 … Here’s my notes:https://humane.computer/review-the-science-of-managing-our-digital-stuff/ …
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Key takeaway was that personal information management’s goal is to aid future retrieval but it’s really hard to predict the future context. Seems like users build up a spatial view of hierarchical folders which means they’re the least mentally demanding retrieval method.
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