Thread by @brandontoner

Ok now I’m going to describe a process I want to be able to engage with. That would scratch the itch I put some words to over here

What I want...

https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1337862850258350080

First I need to *capture* the pieces in my head. These come in ALL forms. Whatever it is, I need to be able to toss it onto a canvas.

Partly outliner here. Braindump.
Roam does part of this perfectly so I need that. Text based ideas — out of my head, into lists.

But then, DIFFERENT lists form, and I want to be able to move those around — like little suboutliner views moved around like sticky notes stuck to a wall.

Able to be moved, reoriented, in a visual way in order to start to see new relationships.

Maybe I could draw things connecting these little suboutliners.

Arrows, building flowcharts, clarifying hierarchies, taxonomies, dependencies, or steps and stages.

Using color and shape to guide my thoughts. Moving and adjusting as I went.

Then I want to be able to *group* things together and assign labels that I can then use in various ways.

Maybe if I label parts of a process, I can then use that label as an INBOX (backlink) to tag those weird little disjointed ideas as they arise.

https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1337864759111249920

Essential, building spatial representations of processes, places, diagrams, etc at whatever level is clear to me at any moment, with the ability to link them to other related thought-scapes as they are created.

Ok, and now a less abstract example.

Continue to learn a bit about curling 🥌🥌🥌

https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1337872016393838597