Have you ever seen this? notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes
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The important part is the notions about how to write—shifting the idea of a “note" from a write-once log to structured elements intended to be updated over time. I do my writing with (plus the Alfred workflow and a script for adding backlinks on my Github).
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The webapp I use to publish notes online isn’t open-source (it’s quite a kludge), but a number of commercial products implemented my design: Obsidian Publish, Craft, Roam Garden. There’s also a Gatsby theme (github.com/aravindballa/g) and a TiddlyWiki plugin (I forget)
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(This is a great validation of doing your research in public!)
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It is—thanks for saying so. I feel a bit silly about it because this design is something I put together fairly thoughtlessly in a weekend, and I don’t think it’s all that great! I’ll feel better once people start stealing my harder-won work. :)
I will say that after spending a couple of hours with your notes in one session I felt a great many needs for which there is no user interface.
You write in hypertext, and the tools don’t meaningfully support reading hypertext.
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