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I explained why I don't want to do this, right? > Far more importantly, it provides spatio-temporal locality. I add things in chronological order to tbe blog,
by bollu 7y ago
I explained why I don't want to do this, right?
> Far more importantly, it provides spatio-temporal locality. I add things in chronological order to tbe blog, as I learn thing. If I need to recall something I had studied, go to that location in the blog based on a sense of when.
> When I do get to a location I want, the scrollbar gives me a sense of where I am in the file. this is important to me, since it hepls me reason spatially about what i know and what I've learnt. It's someting I love about books, and deeply miss when navigtaing the web.I'm determined to keep this spatio-temporal locality on my little slice of the internet.
And:
> I need a single file to edit, so I can rapidly jot down new ideas. This is the essence of why I'm able to log most of what I study: because it's seamless.
I really wish I _could_ get used to the usual way of doing things, but it just doesn't sit right with me, unfortunately.
- oefrha 7y agoI thought those are all about your single markdown source file, not the HTML output. Still, this may work well when the website is sitting on your local disk, but probably not so well when it’s served remotely, especially not when it grows to say 10MB.
- mbeex 7y agoI understand your intention, the non-linear hypertext affects cognitive abilities badly in many ways. But your approach has limits. You might have 9000 lines of text now, but any non-trivial corpus of knowledge will make things explode. You have to split the file at some point. Otherwise - in your analogy - you will not read a book, but a library in a linear fashion.