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Yes, this demonstrates some key interactions, I think (nice work)! Scrollability, resizability, navigability… much will depend on the details of the implementation. I suspect something magic happens when it's as smooth and effortless as pinching in/out of a map.
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But I think there may also be something to semi-modes, to navigation hierarchies/stacks. The best of Apple's peek/pop (RIP) really did this for me: continuous, incremental interaction from excerpt to viewing surrounding context to navigation, integrated with a stack.
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Ahhh wish I could experience that interaction! Totally agree the devil is in the details of the interaction. Pondering 's thoughts on the richness of manual interaction: worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTh
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The metaphors of peeking, peripheral vision, I think, are stronger than just metaphors: I think they contain essential principles of interaction that we haven't quite figured out how to get just quite right in a digital medium, at least for the problems I'm working on.
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I want a rich medium that lets me "converse with the problem" like a master chair maker engages in a reflective conversation (in the Donald Schon sense) with the wood while designing.
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Why not just print it? (I mean this seriously, not as a twitter prank).
What does being digital really accomplish? Is it stuff like interactive viz?
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makes a great point about context! For my target tasks of scholarly synthesis (working with "excerpted" ideas from papers), I get frustrated bc printed paper obeys constraints of space/physics, with items needing to be in one place at one time.
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I also like how talks about the key advantage of digital being context-sensitivity: worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p134
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I am skeptical. I have kept paper notebooks since 2008. With 13 years of notes, lookup/context has not been a challenge. Yet.
But maybe I am leaving a lot on the table.
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For me at least, the main limitation of paper notes has not been lookup speed etc, but rather that they're mostly write-once. And so the natural format of paper notes is time slices, pages processing forward in time, rather than units which accrete knowledge in-place over time.
Of course, transient notes are very useful—not all notes should be evergreen—and physical notes *can* be updated over time, as e.g. Luhmann did. Just an observation about the tendency of the medium.