<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'></span> in Via: Gimmick Book — Gordon Brander (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 14:04:29</time>)</cite></small>

A reasonable summary list of alternatives. Note how dreadful and unmemorable most of these names are. Most noticeable in this list is that I don't think that anyone actually built any actual tools that accomplish any of these theoretical things.

It also makes more noticeable that the Center for Humane Technology seems to be theoretically arguing against something instead of "for" something.

One of the flaws of using Digital Mappa for projects like this appears to be that it acts more as a viewer (as a result of it's original use with maps) than as something for text. As a result, when looking at various pages, the URL of the page and it's attendant resources doesn't change, so one can't link to particular resources within the work, nor can one easily use digital tools (Hypothes.is for example), to anchor and annotate portions of the text.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>whitney trettien</span> on Twitter: "I'm excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet's 17th-century commonplace book, held at @morganlibrary. @zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet's source texts. https://t.co/VSCMmBhMS6 https://t.co/fyrbwS9kk1" (<time class='dt-published'>04/09/2021 10:49:31</time>)</cite></small>

This is a facsimile and diplomatic edition of Codex Vercellensis CXVII, Archivio e Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli.

An interesting example of a digitized version of a book.

What a cool looking project, courtesy of Grant Codes.

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/promnesia/

Promnesia is a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox (including Firefox for Android!) which serves as a web surfing copilot, enhancing your browsing history and web exploration experience.

TLDR: it lets you explore your browsing history in context: where you encountered it, in chat, on Twitter, on Reddit, or just in one of the text files on your computer. This is unlike most modern browsers, where you can only see when you visited the link.

I've been doing something a bit like this manually and it looks a lot like the sort of UI examples I've been collecting at https://boffosocko.com/2019/06/29/social-reading-user-interface-for-discovery/

This is a pretty solid overview of a literature review workflow. He doesn't use the words, but this is not a half bad way to build a digital commonplace book or digital garden/personal wiki for research use.

I hadn't thought about using Grav as the method for storing and displaying all of it, but perhaps it's worth looking into?

An interesting outline of how Colin Madland uses Notion for his Ph.D. research work.

He's got a good list of some pros and cons at the bottom. The export sounds a bit hairy on one front, but at least gives you some sort of back up in case the worst were to happen.

Not sure it's the thing for me and I'm happier with my workflow using Obsidian at the moment, though some of the ideas about process here could be helpful.

It looks like he's got some of the same issues in using Grav for his knowledge work as I do in WordPress, though the taxonomy and Webmention portions do tend to help me a bit.

Colin brought this to my attention at the OERxDomains21 conference.

Yunaru.com source code. Follow anyone. Blog anything.

Interesting to see this actually hosted by GitHub pages.

This looks like the sort of project that @judell @dwhly @remikalir and the Hypothes.is team may appreciate, if nothing else but for the user interface set up and interactions.

I'll have to spin up a copy shortly to take a look under the hood.

Custom CSS to make Twitter write-only! How awesome is this?

2 main types of aeration

1. hollow tine aeration: pulling plugs out of the soil.

2. solid tine aeration (a spading fork): you're just poking holes in the ground

Do it after the last frost is past, because if water gets in holes and freezes, the freeze can damage

Plug tool for transplanting plugs of grass

A tool targeted at journalists that appears to be a silo-based app for backing up/archiving articles on the web as well as providing analytics, newsletter/email functionalities, and other options.

This might be an interesting tool to do import/export from Evernote and/or OneNote to get documents into markdown format (possibly for use in Obsidian.)

I thought that these sorts of tools had been abandoned by Twitter's API?

@ajlkn has several related projects including this one:

• https://carrd.co/build
• https://pixelarity.com/

Might be an interesting experiment to make one or more of them IndieWeb friendly and create a set up to dovetail one or more of them in with the GitHub pages set up.

Ludwig is the first sentence search engine that helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources.

A generally good list here with some I hadn't run across. Conveniently lays out some of the best by operating system.

Online tool. Interface looks a lot like Overleaf's LaTex editor.

This looks interesting. Web based? Also includes version control as well as collaboration support.

An in-browser text editor.

so super dope that you can toggle highlights & annotations to be private or public, and then can share a hypothesis link for a page, and then people can see your highlights on the page that are public, and dont see the ones you set as private, oh wow!!!

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tab/link management tools

I've come across about 20 reference for Ivan Illitch over the past month. Not sure what is driving it. Some mentions are coming out of educator circles, others from programmers, some from what I might describe as "knowledge workers" (digital gardeners/Roam Cult/Obsidian crowds). One tangential one was from someone in the hyperlink.academy crowd.

Here's a recent one from today that popped up within a thread shared in IndieWeb chat:

Ivan Illich continues to be even more more relevant than he was at the height of his New Left popularity. Conviviality in the digital tools we use has continued to wither https://t.co/D88V6KL7Ez pic.twitter.com/OFDYTjXyCn

— Count Bla (@123456789blaaa) March 15, 2021

Deschooling Society and Tools for Conviviality look very interesting. Perhaps they've distilled enough that their ideas are having a resurgence?

Amazon anyone?

This fits into the idea of older knowledge and memory systems of indigenous peoples

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Maren Deepwell</span> in Guest Post: Remixing our Open Education Online Conference : OERxDomains Conference (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 21:56:21</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks</span> in Kevin Marks on Twitter: "@doctorow The podle app by @AdaRoseCannon could be a good starting point https://t.co/q9Y8DEVbfG" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 14:41:41</time>)</cite></small>

Of course, the great thing about IndieWeb ideas is that if I ever do have that problem, a tool is already available. And if you have that problem right now, you just need to open up the IndieWeb toolkit and pull it out.

You don't buy the hardware store because it's there, you visit it to get the right tool for the right job.

This looks interesting.

Ht Jeremy Cherfas

This could be fun and useful. I wonder if it will allow focusing on certain sub-portions of the screen?

Looks like an interesting way to transport Hypothes.is annotations to [[Obsidian]].

A command line tool for placing Hypothes.is annotations into [[Obsidian]].

This is freaking hilarious!

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>@Currofile</span> in marina @ bliss on Twitter: "@__baileybrooks @SlackHQ This looks in line with something that https://t.co/lo2XmYayhG is building." / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/09/2021 09:27:46</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Molloy</span> in Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites - BBC News (<time class='dt-published'>03/07/2021 16:14:09</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Molloy</span> in Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites - BBC News (<time class='dt-published'>03/07/2021 16:14:09</time>)</cite></small>

ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 5). In 4 days: SciBeh workshop ‘Building an online information environment for policy relevant science’ Join us! Topics: Crisis open science, interfacing to policy, online discourse, tools for research curation talks, panels, hackathons https://t.co/SPeD5BVgj3… I https://t.co/kQClhpHKx5 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1324286406764744704

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘1 week to the SciBeh workshop “Building an online information environment for policy relevant science” Join us, register now! Topics: Crisis open science, interfacing to policy, online discourse, tools for research curation talks, panels, hackathons https://t.co/Gsr66BRGcJ https://t.co/uRrhSb9t05’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 2 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1323207455283826690

ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 9). Session 2: The policy interface followed with a really helpful presentation by Lindsey Pike, from Bristol, and then panel discussion with Mirjam Jenny (Robert Koch Insitute), Paulina Lang (UK Cabinet Office), Rachel McCloy (Reading Uni.), and Rene van Bavel (European Commission) [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1325795286065815552

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Parecki</span> in #indieweb 2021-03-01 (<time class='dt-published'>03/01/2021 15:30:09</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Ben Awad</span> in Scraping Recipe Websites (<time class='dt-published'>03/01/2021 15:28:08</time>)</cite></small>

tabset makes life easier for iTerm2 users, enabling easy setting of tab and window titles, badges, and colors. If you have a lot of tabs/windows in operation simultaneously, tabset helps to visually distinguish them.

This looks like it's in the vein of annotation tools as well as reference managers to compete with Zotero and Hypothes.is.

Looks like it's Windows specific. But it is open source now too: https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source

This project is somewhat related to getmemex.com

Zegnat et al.: FYI WorldBrain's Memex (= getmemex.com) has some shared history with my WebMemex project; we collaborated for some months, then went in somewhat different directions; I focussed on web page snapshotting for a while, and got distracted with other things; WorldBrain's version added more and more features and got a lot closer to what I had in mind for WebMemex. — via treora # 21:34 on 2021-02-12

I know I've come across this and used it before, but somehow I managed not to bookmark it.

This is the first reference I've heard about [[Athens]], but there are many others that aren't mentioned here including Obsidian, Foam, TiddlyWiki, etc. which have been adding the backlinking capabilities.

using email for chat??

What a cool idea!

first sighting: https://darkreader.org/help/en/

This looks like a cool little UI for tweetstorms. I'd love it better if it had Micropub support.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>agentofuser</span> in Micropub Tweetstorm Builder - Apps - Fission Talk (<time class='dt-published'>02/17/2021 22:00:26</time>)</cite></small>

Writing software

This looks pretty cool!

Potential Clubhouse-like audio tool.

Found via tweet mentioned in IndieWeb chat:

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Sam Rye</span> in Sam Rye on Twitter: "Open source alternative to Clubhouse 👏 Great for audio-centric events and group people... https://t.co/UTwbjD8595 Ping @EnrolYourself @danielyep @LornaPrescott_ @unevendistrib @solarpunk_girl" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>02/17/2021 11:45:36</time>)</cite></small>

Interesting that tools would come up at this stage. Chances are, someone's curation toolkit will cover all the steps and there are some tools which integrate several of these. Refworks, Zotero, and Mendeley might be interesting examples in that they allow for cloud sharing yet focus on the information management.

The internet isn't a new invention, it's just a more fixed version of the melange of text, ideas, and thought networks that have existed over human existence.

First there was just the memory and indigenous peoples all over the world creating vast memory palaces to interconnect their thoughts. (cross reference the idea of ancients thinking much the way we do now from the fist episode or so of Literature and History)

Then we invite writing and texts which help us in terms of greater storage without the work or relying solely on memory. This reaches it's pinnacle in the commonplace book and the ideas of Llull's combinatorial thought.

Finally we've built the Internet which interconnects so much more.

But now we need to go back and revisit the commonplace book and memory techniques to tie them altogether. Perhaps Lynne Kelly's concept of The Third Archive is what we should perfect next until another new instantiation comes to augment the system.

They also turned their reading into writing, because commonplacing made them into authors. It forced them to write their own books; and by doing so they developed a still sharper sense of themselves as autonomous individuals. The authorial self took shape in the common man’s commonplace book, not merely in the works of great writers. It belonged to the general tendency that Stephen Greenblatt has called “Renaissance self-fashioning.”

This fits into my broader developing thesis about thinking and writing as a means of evolving thought.

Sadly no Welsh yet...

I'm curious to take a look after seeing this. Thanks for the recommendation.

I've tried Memrise and Duolingo before and like Duolingo a lot. I don't think they've got a French option, but I've also been using a platform called SSiW or Say Something in Welsh (they've got a few other languages too). I like their focus on verbal fluency over the methods traditionally taught in most classroom settings.

Having studied a handful of languages in the past, I'm quite impressed at how much and how well I can understand Welsh after only 20 minutes or so a day for about a month.