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22 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
It would totally be possible to use @figmadesign (albeit hacky) as a personal knowledge management system given certain user behaviors & maybe a few new plugins 🤔 It wouldn't be nearly as powerful as say @RoamResearch or @kosmik_app but it would outperform traditional note apps
It has a lot of the same limitations of text vs. GUI I describe in this thread. Ultimately, if an idea doesn’t need to be expressed with visuals, it’s just really hard to beat the speed of typing. That being said, doing it visually leads to me thinking through it differently.
An alternative view on what a visually created PKM system could look like in this thread, as well as musings on the limitations of Figma that could perhaps be addressed via plugins
This thread has a video about how to set up your components in Figma to create flowcharts with transclusion (think block refs)
As is and with existing plugins, Figma could be used in a way that makes it more powerful than non-networked note-taking apps. I think plugins for the networked side could level it up significantly, and want to work on them with anyone who can make plugins. DM me!
There are some limitations we would need to work with. The biggest one is probably the one in the QT (more in that thread). I’d also want to make them paid plugins, which would mean we’d have to facilitate discovery outside of the normal Figma community discovery engine.
Lol yup. What would happen if those arrows, clusters, etc. were queryable? What if you could mix them with [[bidirectional wikilinks]] to add extra meaning?

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20 Jan
I love this part of the @worldbrain vision. You can create a collection for web pages. Others can follow/join if they are interested in the subject. You can then set the rules for participating in an online conversation between community members that spans across many web pages.
Imagine this... I want to create a collection for all of the behavioral science articles I read, and know a few other people who I trust to add good articles to it. They could be set as co-curators, or just follow the collection. We’d then talk about each article on the article!
It’s sort of like if we set up a forum for ourselves to discuss articles, except the forum follows us around. It’s like placing my own comments section on someone else’s site.
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17 Jan
Imo ABA therapy isn’t effective because of the power of behaviorism, but rather because you have a therapist paying very close attention to what makes an individual kid tick. Of course that will work, but you don’t have to do verbal gymnastics to avoid attributing internal states
This is an unnuanced take about an intellectual gripe I have that doesn’t really matter
Right, it’s individualized care and close attention/analysis. Behaviorism as a philosophy isn’t really necessary here 🤷‍♂️
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15 Jan
Figma totally just leapfrogged Whimsical for me. I see no reason to use Whimsical ever again.
This is true. I was mainly using it for quick flowcharts. But once you set up a few components for yourself, spend an hour learning the basics, and install Autoflow, the flowcharts become about as quick to make as in Whimsical
So the way I see it, I can spend that hour learning and do a little setup and get access to a tool that does everything and more, allowing me to increase my skill level over time in something that rewards that growth. Whimsical has a lower floor but also a way lower ceiling
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31 Dec 20
This right here is a huge area of exploration for me since working on GuidedTrack, realizing that @worrydream had already written about live programming environments in the context of learnable programming, and even contemplating things I could build myself
Big open questions: what broken glass to get started could be offloaded to design choices? How can languages and IDEs be designed to be approachable and understandable, providing strong feedback on the impact of your actions, and encouraging you to engage feedback loops?
Part of what’s appealing about learnable programming is just how hard it is. I’ve worked on 6 onboardings so far, and working on a programming language/IDE (GuidedTrack) was by far the most challenging.
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30 Dec 20
Multiplayer in @RoamResearch can be really powerful, but it's too process-oriented to work if users don't share some common language about its fundamentals. People ~need to already understand Roam in order to collaborate in it, for the whole range of small to massive projects
Onboarding was offloaded to a decentralized community, leading to a lot of divergence in understanding the core bits. People are learning from social norms set by influencers, who often communicate suboptimal messages. Roam has little in-app influence over the narrative.
Even the best community content explainers only hit a chunk of Roam users. Everybody needs to speak the language of indentation, filters, etc. so there's a solid foundation to layer multiplayer processes on top of. We won't disrupt Wikipedia-like projects w/o shared language!
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29 Dec 20
Hey @RoamResearch if I could query by unlinked references, I'd be able to query by "2020" or specific months so please, querying by string would go a long way
Example:
Querying by string would also let you query your screenshots.

It would let me search my URLs. {{query: {and: [[VC]] “www”}}} would bring in all of my URLs related to VC.
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