A fluorescence of note taking tools Over the past three or so years there has been a fluorescence of digital note taking tools and platforms. Some of these include: Open source projects like Org Mode, Logseq, Foam, Jupyter, Trilium, Databyss, Athens, Dendron, Anagora, and Hypothes.is. Closed sourced projects like: Roam Research, Notion, Knovigator, Amplenote, RemNote,…
Collet was a member of the religious household at Little Gidding ca. 1630s. Her commonplace book is remarkably structured: one half scripture excerpts, organized by topic, the other half secular excerpts organized under the same topics. More about it here: https://t.co/Oo0O0CtBDt
In working with the manuscript, @zoe_braccia tracked down the sources of nearly excerpt. The edition highlights any variance between a source text and Collet’s copy using @digitalmappa’s hyperlinked assets. I discuss the significance of these differences in #CutCopyPasteBook. pic.twitter.com/nQ2dv99w4P
There are surprisingly few digital editions of commonplace books, especially given how the genre lends itself to digitization. What we've made isn't perfect but we hope it helps others think through/with these types of books. More about that here: https://t.co/XiNShKmQzz
There are surprisingly few digital editions of commonplace books, especially given how the genre lends itself to digitization. What we've made isn't perfect but we hope it helps others think through/with these types of books. More about that here: digitalbookhistory.com/colletscommonp… ❧ I've seen some people building digital commonplace books in real time, but I'm also curious…
The real super-power feature missing from Roam Research? My public Roam Research notebook being able to converse with someone elses' (or any other page on the internet for that matter). Webmention support might solve this. #RoamCult Reading about decentralized social media has imagining something like a giant web of independently networked Roam research-like pages where…
I contribute to a wiki and a community that looks at some of the why and how questions which you might appreciate. There are also many academics and researchers who are in the space which may give you some examples. Some are talking about the space under the moniker of A Domain of One's Own…
Thirteen: Backfeeding ideas with Brid.gy Let's say I syndicate a thought to Twitter. I can use Bri.gy to backfeed ideas and interactions with my Tweet back to my original in my digital notebook (where it's most useful). This helps outside ideas filter into and interact with my own ideas. #HeyPresstoConf20 You knew ideas can have…
tl;dr It's too painful to quickly get frequent notes into note taking and related platforms. Hypothes.is has an open API and a great UI that can be leveraged to simplify note taking processes. Note taking tools I've been keeping notes in systems like OneNote and Evernote for ages, but for my memory-related research and work…
Is there like... a personal threader app tool? Or even an NPM lib? Sorta want to build something that lets me turn specific threads into blog posts on my own website.
#IndieWeb to the rescue. There are a few great options for this. None of which should require you to write any code! One of my favorite is Kevin Marks' Noter Live (open source) which is great for live tweeting and creating long threads quickly, especially at conferences. When you're done, it's kept a record of…
Sure. Less clear to me how that looks/works and what that I do today online is similar in "ownership." But does your "you" refer to students or teachers or schools or all of the above?
The first two (I list) seem key in terms of practical adherence to these principles for everyday users.
It's similar in character to the Domain of One's Own initiative. From a long term perspective, you might be better off taking ownership of your own infrastructure, that you can carry with you and guarantee will be available over long time periods (decades to centuries). Hypothes.is should at the very least permit you to do so if you prefer-- regardless of whether we continue to provide an annotation service at scale (which I very much think we should).
Your question around "you" is an important one. I might for instance, set up my own annotation server for my personal notes-- with the confidence that I'll always be able to find a reliable hosting provider for those. Similar to how I have my own web domain, and I host it at one place now, but I can always move it if that location goes out of business-- and my website will be identical to its current form in the new place. In the same way, my current personal email is through an address at my own domain. I don't need to depend on gmail being around forever.
As a teacher, I might use a more common service provider (like Hypothes.is) for class lessons-- one that my students are already likely to have accounts on. As web travelers, we're really accustomed to browsing seamlessly between servers-- it's understood to be the essential architecture of the web. Bringing it to the world of annotations has extraordinary benefits (IMHO) and will serve to foster more adoption and more diversity of applications.
I've been thinking over some of this question for the better part of a decade and even more pointedly since November. Some of what I've been looking at relates back to the renaissance ideas of the commonplace book as well as memory techniques dating back to ancient Greece and even further back. There are ideas…
The thing I've realized I'm desperately missing in micro.blog: Discover pages for stationery, pens, pencils, notebooks, and paper. ✍️📓🖋️🖊️📝✒️✏️📔 cc: @manton @rnv (#) @jeremycherfas (#)
Recently, I made my 100,000th annotation with Hypothesis. I know what you must be thinking: Doesn’t she have a life? Why would anyone make 100,000 annotations? Just a few short years ago, I would have dismissed this prospect as preposterous. I disliked reading online and abandoned most online tools at the first hurdle. Yet, here I am, a self-diagnosed annotation addict. (For those of you who don’t know me, I used to work for Hypothesis. Leaving to build open infrastructure didn’t mean that I left the tool behind — far from it!)
I've outlined the potentiality of using Hypothes.is as a CMS platform in the past. Heather has apparently taken it to heart and gone full bore. I hadn't included it at the time, but private groups are also an interesting way to share ideas and private posts with small groups of people. You could also use…
It’s an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable language, brimming with bizarre drawings of esoteric plants, naked women, and astrological symbols. Known...
a roughly 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable language, brimming with bizarre drawings of esoteric plants, naked women, and astrological symbols. Known as the Voynich manuscript, it defies classification, much less comprehension. ❧ Something I hadn't thought of before, but which could be highly likely given the contents: What if the manuscript is a personal…
Many ideas about how this site is used and presented are cribbed from the notebooks of Cosma Shalizi, which I find a pleasant format to read. The content is my own, except where otherwise stated. The fiddly details of how it works are here, and the really fiddly in-progress details are on my TODO list.
I love your site Dan and follow many of the same philosophies myself. Your notebook idea is a great one. If you want to extend it a bit, you could go full digital commonplace book to encompass even more. I notice that in your follow me section you've got a handful of buttons that may…
Has anyone gathered a collection of interesting and/or unexpected ways of using @hypothes_is beyond its standard use case? @xolotl#SquadGoalsNetwork
— Dr. Ryan "Rebel Without a Clause" Straight (@RyanStraight) December 7, 2019
What a great prompt! Here are a few interesting off-label use cases I've used, imagined, or seen in the wild: Greg McVerry, Ian O'Byrne, and I have integrated Hypothes.is into our digital/online commonplace books in different ways. Greg's are embedded at https://jgregorymcverry.com/annotations, Ian discusses his process on his site, while mine show up as annotation…
My OPML Domains Project Not being able to attend Domains 2019 in person, I was bound and determined to attend as much of it as I could manage remotely. A lot of this revolved around following the hashtag for the conference, watching the Virtually Connecting sessions, interacting online, and starting to watch the archived videos…
While I'm thinking about younger students, I thought I'd sketch out a bit of an add-on product that I wish Hypothes.is had. Background/Set up I was looking at tools to pull annotations out of Kindle the other day and ran across Readwise again. Part of its functionality pulls highlights and annotations out of Kindle and…
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