'Text is still not so accessible. We write in columns, import illustrations from elsewhere and have severe restrictions in how we connect'.
Linking information from various sources and yet there is little metadata left in the final PDF version which gets exported.
Linking information from various sources and yet there is little metadata left in the final PDF version which gets exported.
Just like how CPUs offload work to GPU giving the CPU 'more bandwidth', text is a medium through which our occipital lobe (visual processing lobe) offloads work from our prefrontal cortex (higher level thinking)
academic documents for students
annotations, notes, tags
business memos
memorandums, contracts
computational text
mathematical text
serious books attested by religious authorities
carved text on trees, embossed in parchments
and even tattooed on skin
All forms of texts.
annotations, notes, tags
business memos
memorandums, contracts
computational text
mathematical text
serious books attested by religious authorities
carved text on trees, embossed in parchments
and even tattooed on skin
All forms of texts.
text to inform, text to inspire fear, text to make you think, text to make one wonder, text to inspire awe, text to warn, text to make you conform, text to make you rebel..
Even though human thought is grounded in 3D space (just like how @RoamResearch makes those beautiful mind maps), reading and writing is still confined to 2D space.
This is a constraint of text production that has existed right from the first stone age tablets.
This is a constraint of text production that has existed right from the first stone age tablets.
Imagine if we had a tool for composing thought that was similar to how the brain creates thought?
'The future of text should be tied to the human body'
In a way every computing device we have is spiraling closer and closer towards getting more integrated with the human body.
This would be a larger tech shift.
In a way every computing device we have is spiraling closer and closer towards getting more integrated with the human body.
This would be a larger tech shift.
'The future of language and text is a future in which reading and writing converge in agnostic assemblage -a carnival of collaboration'.
'The most powerful books go beyond the reading and transform the serious reader.
They should be able to bathe in books ideas,
Relate those ideas with experiences,
Try on mental models like a new hat.'
@andy_matuschak
They should be able to bathe in books ideas,
Relate those ideas with experiences,
Try on mental models like a new hat.'
@andy_matuschak
Design fiction idea: A guided meditation app accompanying a book on meditation.
Meditations insights unfold slowly.
Therefore, having read the book, the app slowly embeds the practise into one's identity.
Also, a use-case for @jackbutcher 's Build once, Sell Twice philosophy
Meditations insights unfold slowly.
Therefore, having read the book, the app slowly embeds the practise into one's identity.
Also, a use-case for @jackbutcher 's Build once, Sell Twice philosophy
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