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Andy Matuschak
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Discussing this more with Laura, one thing that surprises me is how few digital authoring envs you'd want to "live in" all day for both prose and visual explanations. Your team can live in Notion, but then no visual expls; or live in Figma, but probably not write there.
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Laura Deming
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Is there something like @RoamResearch but for complex experiment workflows? I want something clean, with a very thoughtful perspective on what the correct structure should 'be', taking into account how our minds model information.
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Andy Matuschak
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OneNote was the only full-featured tool we could think of which seemed well-suited to both text and visual explanations, though it has its own downsides. We're all still "separating by mode of production", per Tufte…
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Andy Matuschak
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Yes, one can still embed Figma artboards as blocks inside Notion documents, but that's still separating by mode of production. Means you're unlikely to spontaneously create text<>visual interactions as you'd naturally do on paper / whiteboard.
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Andy Matuschak
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The "Markdown representation" support of the Excalidraw Obsidian plugin is really quite compelling: youtube.com/watch?v=R0IAg0 Matches this tweet's aspiration:
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Andy Matuschak
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Another angle: I'm intrigued by the possibility of a "lens file": what if my PDF annotator can "save a Markdown lens" which contains my annotations. The difference from an export, though, is that the lens would be "live", with a bidi scheme for handling changes.
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Andric
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To my knowledge, @WhimsicalPowers comes the closest. Fully-featured whiteboard canvas with docs. When they add backlinks, it’ll be able to handle a huge chunk of Roam and Notion workflows.
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