One big roadblock for environments hoping to improve on the book with fancy interactive elements: they all require reading on a screen! And reading on a screen is almost universally terrible! I've been getting increasingly worried about this—seems like a serious threat! (con't)
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I’m really getting a lot of your notes. Have you shared anywhere how you’re currently writing them?
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What if navigation wasn’t through arbitrary chunks (pages) but aligned with the structure of the content (sections > paragraphs > sentences)? Too much effort goes into transforming trees into sequences (writing) and back (reading). What if we just kept the trees? (fig. and lit.)
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What is your notes tool? A homegrown implementation of Luhmann’s Zettelkasten method?
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on the whole newer physical books are so much worse than they used to be — smaller type, gutters so narrow you can’t see the full beginning of the line, final lines nearly running off the page, your fingers on the edge covers text, tight binding, cheap paper etc
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a good PDF would be infinitely preferable and that’s where i’ve been leaning a lot, lately yeah i want an overview mode and the ability to flip around that currently no tools support but i’m bearish on paper books bc publishers suck
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IMO The only one that seems to really grasp and solve this problem is liquidtext
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It's become almost a cliche: is literally *anyone* else doing anything real in this space? So impoverished!
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I think good tools for managing multiple windows can help w/ nonlinear reading. But it probably needs to be combined with quicker ways of encoding position, i.e open a new window of the book then quickly jumping to chapter X, then paragraph Y.
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Yeah, I agree. Skim's snapshots are an interesting sketch in that direction.
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