Thread about Roamblogs, prompted by @vgr (thanks to @QiaochuYuan for encouraging me to write it)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200101161128185856 …
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I'm experimenting with writing publicly on http://roamresearch.com , and its graph features seem to be solving some core challenges: 1. wanting to be able to reference ideas I haven't written a full post about 2. not wanting to post about something before my post is
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Malcolm 🌎cean
...you can see how those two challenges reinforce each other. Since everything's so intertwingled, this made it really tough to publish anything!https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1047480607226384384 …
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(EDIT to thread: Apparently twitter refused to let me publish this storm because I've used the phrase "everything is deeply intertwingled" too many times already. Had to edit the phrasing slightly to stop a vague "Whoops, you already said that" error message)
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Andy Matuschak
Anyway, with Roam, I can just mention a new idea using a [[page link]], & get a placeholder page for it. Even before adding content to the page, it already displays every place where that word/phrase is used, giving context for learning more about it:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1190102757430063106 …
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Andy MatuschakVerified account @andy_matuschakKnowledge systems which display contextual backlinks to a node open up an interesting new behavior. You can bootstrap a new node extensionally (rather than intensionally) by simply linking to it from many other nodes—even before it has any content.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
I've only done a little bit of this but it's been amazing and I can tell that it's going to make a huge difference to my online writing. I've wanted something like this for years. Here's some thinking from 2 years ago. Ended up making an Airtable and it helped... like 5%.pic.twitter.com/l1Rlwqlhhd
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Malcolm 🌎cean
In those notes, you'll notice I talk about Tables of Contents and about http://meaningness.com , which is one of the best examples of a hypertext *book* that I'm aware of.
@meaningness made drupal plugins for
WIP pages & hover-glossaryhttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1199773216169963520 …Malcolm 🌎cean added,
Malcolm 🌎cean @Malcolm_OceanReplying to @vgr @Meaningness
I also think this.
I have some thoughts here in my public roam about roamblogs & roambooks and meaningness is my main go-to example for the latter. Read here: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/tOxCWpVZW …
(This is a feature wishlist, not thoughts on what is or could be profoundly possible.) pic.twitter.com/eHJ8cjjssY1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Malcolm 🌎cean
But meaningness is a nonlinear book. What's a nonlinear blog? What distinguishes a book from a blog?https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1200488808518705152 …
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I see the essential difference between blog & book as: a book has a finite breadth & depth, that's somewhat known from the beginning, and thus is organized around a ToC, and can be *finished". Also intended to be internally coherent.
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By contrast, a blog is an ongoing exploration of whatever captures the writer's interest at a given moment (perhaps with a theme). Any table of contents must be mostly retrospective, since the writer doesn't know what comes next. Later posts may contradict earlier ones.
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I’m starting with an index/glossary 
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