Unpopular #TfT / #PKM opinion: spacial representation of knowledge (whether 2D or 3D) is a complete red herring and, on the whole, a waste of time.
Graph views in @RoamResearch and @obsdmd and @AthensResearch and @logseq do not actually *encode knowledge* in any meaningful way.
Most of the time when I want to make two pages into aliases/synonyms, what am I *actually* trying to do?
I'm trying to say, "These two page titles *are* different (different enough not to rename to be identical), but for some purpose I'm TREATING THEM as the same."
May 10, 2021 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
@roamhacker@codexeditor IMVHO (that's My Very Humble opinion—I have no credentials in CS or professional experience coding, just amateur self-education) it's very important to distinguish "data structure" from "data model."
Often people SAY the former and seem to MEAN the latter.
@roamhacker@codexeditor I HIGHLY recommend this video about RISC-V from this one YouTuber with a Swiss Accent:
It's colossally insightful, both about chip architecture specifically and structured thinking/processing more broadly.
Below is a highlight from that video:
Dec 24, 2020 • 25 tweets • 18 min read
@syncretizm@codexeditor I find indentation very, very important. In fact, I would say indentation is the primary reason to consider @RoamResearch a "Tool for Thought" rather than a basic memo taking machine.
I think indentation is at least AS important as backlinks.
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@syncretizm@codexeditor@RoamResearch Here's the big idea: Indentation neatly models three of the most important features of how human thought works. These are:
Decomposition
Association
Abstraction
Let's look at each.
Nov 9, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I am a Christian. I believe that God is real. I believe that the Christian scriptures (aka, "the Bible") contain God's actual writings. I believe God wants humans to know about and believe the message that is in his book.
The Bible teaches that all humans are born with a terminal disease. All except three, that is—but two of those three were Patients 0 and 1, respectively. Their names were Adam and Eve.
The disease is not genetic. But it is hereditary, and there is no natural cure.
May 10, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
The true killer feature of @RoamResearch that I wouldn't be able to leave behind is the Daily Notes page. Roam made me realize that the one truly universal index for all my thoughts is Time.
Having everything indexed by time means that my thoughts are, at minimum, never LESS organized in my db than they are in my brain (but maybe more so). If there is a useful or insightful additional dimension to index along, I can add that WITHOUT destroying the time index.
