The word ‘app’ is horrendous. It makes me think of Angry Birds and Candy Crush. It feels utterly inadequate to describe the majesty of things like and
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Alan Kay argued that "medium" is often a more powerful frame than "tool." doubles down, suggests "environment" is better still—includes cultural context, social interaction, ecology, etc. Notion/Roam have some environment-like properties, so "tool" feels wrong.
(I've found the phrase "enabling environment" to be quite generative as an aspiration… some rough notes along those lines here: notes.andymatuschak.org/z3DaBP4vN1dutj)
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I think the analogies that make the most sense feel architectural—making spaces, environments, contexts, places
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Thinking of an environment as a graph and vice versa opens some interesting possibilities. Was thinking about this in the contex of spaced repetition recently.
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5/ A non-analog version of this type of place and connectedness may be a graph à la @RoamResearch and the rhythm (liturgy) should operate within that graph, not above it.
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