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I'm curious to see how some of these "multiplayer" knowledge graph ideas play out and if/how they wind up being different from the current web (I'm guessing the

I'm curious to see how some of these "multiplayer" knowledge graph ideas play out and if/how they wind up being different from the current web (I'm guessing they will mostly produce a bunch of 'smol' webs that are little siblings of the web we already have sans singular info brokers/filters like popular search engines). Personally, I've tried maintaining a personal knowledge graph and it's...not for me. I find having to process everything digitally and dealing with the sheer amount of information presented to be too overwhelming. I much prefer notebooks, where I only ever see "one thing at a time" even though there's a sea of information in there. The only substantial benefit digital tools provide over notebooks, to me, are hyperlinks, and that's even marginal if you mostly reference only either your own notes or complete books (vs. websites, at which point it becomes substantially more useful). Notebooks are still way faster for information capture, have no restrictions in terms of formatting, don't waste time with matters of using separate commands/ui/concepts for organization: tagging, folder structure, etc. Sure no hyperlinks but it takes 5 seconds to flip through pages to find things if you use some personal approach to indexing. I don't think any digital counterpart has really surpassed pen and paper when it comes to private notes--sharing notes, on the other hand, does seem like a good fit for digital tooling and I'm curious to see if the noosphere will beat out tools for this already built on http

cdata 4y ago
Hey, thanks for the anecdote. It resonates with what I have come to realize about note taking: it is a personalized activity, and whatever keeps me in the habit of taking notes may or may not work for anyone else. Inevitably, Subconscious (our companion notebook app) will manifest some opinions that not everyone will love. But, it has some qualities that you may find appealing (given your stated preferences): - Almost no formatting in the default note syntax: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subtext https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subtext - De-emphasis on hierarchy (flat namespace for notes; no semantically meaningful nesting in note content) - The core of the Noosphere protocol is designed to enable ergonomic linking Noosphere will also bring end-to-end encryption for securing private notes or sharing with specific groups of others.

cdata 4y ago

Hey, thanks for the anecdote. It resonates with what I have come to realize about note taking: it is a personalized activity, and whatever keeps me in the habit of taking notes may or may not work for anyone else. Inevitably, Subconscious (our companion notebook app) will manifest some opinions that not everyone will love. But, it has some qualities that you may find appealing (given your stated preferences): - Almost no formatting in the default note syntax: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subtext https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subtext - De-emphasis on hierarchy (flat namespace for notes; no semantically meaningful nesting in note content) - The core of the Noosphere protocol is designed to enable ergonomic linking Noosphere will also bring end-to-end encryption for securing private notes or sharing with specific groups of others.