linked_notes.md

Background

People have non-linear thoughts, and yet our medium of information is optimized for linear thoughts. I'm particularly focused on computer note-taking, which usually happens in text.

I'm always disturbed by this way of organizing information. And my attempts to solve this, thus far, has been fruitless.

OneNote is a good example that you can somewhat create a non-linear notes. You can start a new box to contain a stray away thoughts. Or just another thoughts. I used it as it is easily shareable with my wife.

However, it bothers me that OneNote:

• No vim keybinding

  On particularly dense and long, technical notes, it breaks my train of thoughts having to move around with mouse

• No syntax highlight

  Enough said

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List of draft points

• graph notes

• knowledge graph

  • science knowledge graph, to help answer questions: what are available knowledge that make Benjamin Franklin deduce lightning is electricity?

• Roamresearch obsidian, athens

  • can we 'compile' these to static pages?

• reference, e.g. Zotero style

• progressive discovery, e.g. wiki / tv tropes style

• miller column navigation

• card-on-card-on-card navigation

• browser with 'light-weight' navigation, e.g. no page-reload heavy.

• searchable

• use cases may be different: writing is more non-linear, reading is more linear? Nah, mine is also not linear :/

• The program in this space is here:

  • org-roam
  • tiddlyroam
  • Dendron
  • Foam
  • Remnote
  • Obsidian
  • logseq

• One that looks simple: VSCode memo