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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    1. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 19
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      It's more aggressive in using the overall hierarchical tree structure of each page in showing/hiding: the reader can read (in increasing depth) page abstract, then by headers, then skim margin notes+item summaries, then read body text, then uncollapse regions to read those too.

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    2. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 19
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      I don't know how well it all works, but I seem to see fewer complaints about my pages being unreadably long, anyway. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Feb 19
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      You're another writer who I'd happily read at 2x the length. And for your particular style, I think your navigation signposting works well - I do sometimes skim e.g., long lists of mostly references.

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    4. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 19
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      Yeah. The link annotations have also been helpful in taming *perceived* length: before, I wanted too much to include all the abstracts/interesting excerpts, but even with floating footnotes, they were very in the reader's face. With the popups, they give reader control of depth.

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    5. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 20
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      Replying to @gwern @michael_nielsen

      For lack of a better term, I'm calling this approach "structural reading" (like "structural editors") - instead of forcing all readers to read at a fixed depth, providing either too little or too much, make the structure visible & controllable so they can adjust depth easily.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 20
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      Replying to @gwern @michael_nielsen

      This is very cool! I seem to recall Dream Machines suggested a physical lever you could pull up or down to get more/less detail continuously. That’s probably difficult and overkill but the general principle seems importantly right

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    7. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 20
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      Replying to @Meaningness @michael_nielsen

      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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    8. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 20
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      Replying to @gwern @Meaningness @michael_nielsen

      (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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    9. yoshiki‏ @yoshikischmitz Feb 20
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      Replying to @gwern @Meaningness @michael_nielsen

      @Westoncb's Variable Level-of-detail Documents is a neat realization of this idea on the web via inline expansions. One could also imagine adding a global "expansion depth" that controls all expansions, tied to a slider of sorts. http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/ pic.twitter.com/vFSSQOHMpr

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 20
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      Replying to @yoshikischmitz @gwern and

      Oh, nice, thanks for the pointer! cc @andy_matuschak in case he doesn’t know about this

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      Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Feb 20
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      Replying to @Meaningness @yoshikischmitz and

      There have been so many attempts at StretchText-like interfaces over the decades! Most approaches (including this one) break object permanence in a way that I find very disruptive to fluid reading. LiquidText is maybe my favorite impl.

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        2. yoshiki‏ @yoshikischmitz Feb 20
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          Replying to @andy_matuschak @Meaningness and

          RE: object permanence, I wonder if you could hit a middle-ground between this and @gwern's hover-previews(nice for quick looks) by showing these expansions in a hover menu with a "pin" button, which when clicked, would insert the expansion into the document itself.

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        3. yoshiki‏ @yoshikischmitz Feb 20
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          The reader could then decide what parts they want to just preview, and which ones they want to keep around, actively participating in the structure of the document, but without contstant reflows of the main text as in the original prototype.

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        2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Feb 20
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          Replying to @andy_matuschak @Meaningness and

          An important related consideration is "interaction considered harmful": ideally, the user should do as little as possible to access the ideal information. Lots of little buttons are a painful way to indicate intent; scrolling through thoughtful section hierarchy somewhat better.

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        3. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Feb 20
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          Replying to @andy_matuschak @Meaningness and

          "Saccade: The Ultimate UI" tl;dr: let's just give everyone VR HMDs with eyetracking and do everything based on saccades.

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        1. Michael Pershan‏ @mpershan Feb 20
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          Replying to @andy_matuschak @Meaningness and

          I think I would describe my experience of reading wikipedia as variable level of detail.

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