I know your notes tech on your website isn't available for people to use, but I'm totally captivated by it. Have you ever shared screenshots of how the thing works from your point of view, e.g. composing, editing, organizing, etc?
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Hi, Brian! Thanks for the shoutout.
My authoring support software’s all prototype-y, so it doesn’t have any UI. It’s just a bunch of scripts and Alfred workflows that work with plain Markdown notes. I mostly use Bear to edit them.
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Are you trying out Roam Andy? And thought on it?
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No. I chat with Conor and experiment with it intermittently. This is a research project, so I need to be rolling my own tools to experiment properly. Also I can't use webapps for serious creative work.
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I see, that makes sense!
Thanks for the answer!
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I had no idea that you used Bear, also my ZK tool of choice. If that’s the case - may I ask how you implement your approach from this in it? Just tags (that’s what I do)? notes.andymatuschak.org/A_writing_inbo
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Generally not. My default is to have my "main" Bear window (the only one which can display a list, grump grump) open to the evergreen notes tag. I switch away temporarily then switch back (have Alfred shortcuts).
But sometimes I edit my notes in Sublime etc.
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I do really wish Bear took sense-making more seriously. Their core model is very simplistic—I just use it because it's very polished. This problem bugs me every day: twitter.com/andy_matuschak.
Doing my best to not shave that yak.
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In digital note systems, the UI centers on the experience of writing one note. The core operations and representations fixate on “the note you have open,” not on larger structures. I often can’t simultaneously see another note I’ve just finished writing—let alone the last four.
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