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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For instance, expert readers generally read non-linearly, but object permanence issues really inhibit that on screens. (https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Maintaining_multiple_reading_positions_is_difficult_when_reading_digitally …, https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Continuous-scroll_digital_reading_uncomfortably_disrupts_object_permanence …) In many cases (eg. on e-readers) *performance* issues inhibit expert reading! Wild! (https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Poor_performance_disrupts_nonlinear_reading_in_digital_reading …)
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Of course there are on-screen features which enhance expert reading… but on balance, I'm pretty reliably a worse reader when reading on screens. Not thrilled about needing to solve those problems in addition to all the tools-for-thought ones! What do you find promising here?
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Replying to @andy_matuschak
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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Replying to @stefanlesser @andy_matuschak
What is your notes tool? A homegrown implementation of Luhmann’s Zettelkasten method?
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The tool is a bunch of home-brew stuff around Markdown. The method has a lot of Zettel influence but layers on dynamic medium elements. We'll probably publish more on this subject this year.
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Replying to @andy_matuschak @stefanlesser
Why not open source the tool? The benefits could be huge.
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It's a research environment, created to help us think about topics in this space. It's not a practical tool for others to use.
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