Tanuj

I get the feeling that the median vocabulary of interactions with computers is shrinking. I see so many people who’s entire computing experience is laboriously moving the mouse, clicking on buttons, and maybe poking ⌘C and ⌘V. For knowledge workers who spend half their waking hours using a computer, that’s akin to being a professional athlete who... See more

And this also brings us to the why now and and why is this hard if this is the fully generalized form of digital documents, why didn't software start this way? I think a big part of it is just that it's hard. We talked about how it's hard to write a text editor, but what if you now need to write a text editor and image editor, a video editor and... See more

It does, however, require visitors to physically go to the museum. This inherently leaves out people who do not visit museums.

I've also called these multi-media canvases because I think there are two dimensions going on. So one is the canvas-ness, which is at least two, sometimes three dimensions, and the freedom and flexibility to place content items wherever you want — like you were saying, with relative independence. The second axis is multimedia. So which types of... See more

You can tune an ITE to be exactly what you need it to be for particular kinds of knowledge work. With a few different plugins, templates, and automations, one ITE can be transformed into many different specialized tools.

Book is a sequence of spreadsIn a paper book, a unit of meaning is a spread, and it is absolutely irreplaceable. A spread is a specific place that you can easily remember, find and refer to in a conversation: “read the page about the Museum.”

The “Coupland” concept explores book discovery as a social activity by allowing readers to build shared libraries and hear about additional texts through existing networks.