breadcrumb thinking
Cartographist
szymonkaliski.com
On the surface, I realize, that looks a lot like adding a hashtag to a document. In practice, though, I found myself using bidirectional links much differently than tags. In Roam, I created bidirectional links to concepts that I wanted to explore, like “the internet is too fast” or “social networks have been a boon to the conservative movement.”... See more
Casey Newton • Notes on a year using Roam Research
When I'm on a journey through a dark swamp of information, I want that same sense of reassurance that flight map gives me. I want to know:
- Where I am right now
- Where I'm going (and how long it's going to take to get there)
- Where I've been and how I got here
Historical Trails
My best thoughts – the ones that make the most difference in my life – are rarely the byproduct of thought.
A-ha moments.
Epiphanies.
Inspirational insights.
They rarely arise from thinking hard.
They are, instead – a byproduct of leaning back.
Finding flow.
Letting go
The backward step.
A clearing – for me - is where clarity calls home.
A-ha moments.
Epiphanies.
Inspirational insights.
They rarely arise from thinking hard.
They are, instead – a byproduct of leaning back.
Finding flow.
Letting go
The backward step.
A clearing – for me - is where clarity calls home.
ian hollander • The Backward Step
But very few interfaces do a brilliant job of the third need: showing me where I've been and how I got here. We can do it at small scales. Patterns like breadcrumbs help us navigate through website or wiki with lots of subpages, but those don't scale well beyond ~7 steps.
Historical Trails
the lie at the core of pkm
no system will save you from the hard work of sitting with the unknown
Alex Dobrenko and • 19 cards
Patryk Adaś' published a set of speculative design ideas in 2017 that hint at a more Git-like, branching way to view browsing history. Adaś argued we should move away from the concept of tabs in browsers, and instead present histories as a set of trails.