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Open Transclude for Networked Writing
- On the surface, Roam looks like a cross between a slightly weird wiki and a note-taking tool like Evernote. It’s not. It implements a few key features of 1980s vintage hypertext visions — block-level addressability, transclusion (changes in referenced blocks being “transfer-included” wherever they are cited), and bidirectional linking — that utterl... See more
from A Text Renaissance by Ribbon Farm
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- If you take a bong rip and close your eyes, you can imagine a world where Roam is a new sort of internet. Where people can publish ideas and reference each other’s ideas in deep, interlinked ways. It’d be like a giant public brain, instead of a private second brain.
That certainly would be a network effect.
The only problem is, I’ve seen a lot of “pu... See morefrom Roam’s Road Ahead by Nathan Baschez
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solid insight. this is the vision for sublime. for this to work, my view is you have to design it to be a giant public brain from day one, not latch that on afterwards. - These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us ... See more
from Check Your Pulse #43 by Sari Azout
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