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I've really been enjoying

's lab notes exploring designs for a new OS: alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/000/ Lots of dreams here dating back to Smalltalk, BeOS, Plan 9, OpenDoc, and more, but the synthesis is carving the seams in an engaging way.

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LN 000: The Lab Notes

The Lab Notes document the progress, experiments, and insights in my research on the future of personal computing.

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One distinguishing element that seems compelling is a strong emphasis on flexibly representing and surfacing associations between objects.

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Thanks, Andy! The thinking is still early, but I'm glad to know these explorations resonate.

You can bet on that!

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I’ve found that graphed notes systems are especially useful when writing. I often write in in long, infinitely nesting tangents. everything-abridged.com/infinitely-con It’s incredibly freeing to be able to dive and explore a topic that came up organically within another one.