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Ted Nelson published Computer Lib / Dream Machines in 1974. I read it that year. It’s the incredible vision that specifically inspired the web—and it was about *books*.
Half a century later, Andy & I are approximately the only people in the world who write hypertext books.
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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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*sweating profusely under a sweater of yak hair* uh... a jenga tower of daemons on top of a folder full of small Markdown files, with Bear as my primary editor (this is not a good solution, no warranty applies, eek, etc)
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Lol!
I’m using a mess of extremely flaky and neglected emacs lisp code.
It would be funny how bad the available tools are if it weren’t actually bad.
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Can you share what those daemons and lisp code you most rely on add to the editing experience?
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Adding backlinks, integrations with references, web publishing, etc