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• Adding structure later feels like a chore

• A DSL could be a powerful interface for entering information into a discourse graph

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• A key requirement to participating in a discourse graph for a specific domain is knowing the vocabulary used in that graph

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• A structural editor can make a DSL approachable to end-users

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• A structural editor could allow people to make and edit data structures

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• An ideal decentralized knowledge graph would map a social graph and a knowledge graph

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• Current tools do not support flexible exploration and refactoring of structures as they inevitably evolve

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• Discourse graphs could significantly accelerate human synthesis work

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• Effective individual synthesis systems (seem to mostly) exist (for a select few)

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• End user programming enables people to bulk process notes

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• End-user scripting enables creative workarounds

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• Highlighted and lowlighted search results map to how well results map to intentions

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• Hypertext enables communication with high information density

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• Incrementally processing notes is a key user behavior to promote synthesis

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• It will be important to capture the potential energy of information consumption

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• Linked references are a smart default for related items

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• Most people will primarily consume information

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• Newsfeed management can enable users to express their preferences through a combination of revealed preferences and declared preferences

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• Newsfeeds are a poor intervention for distributing and discovering relevant information

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• People are lazy

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• People process complex information in multiple levels and stages of processing

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• Programmable text interfaces are the future

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• Search terms express intentions

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• Synthesis is hard to do with people who don’t share context with you

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• The responsibilities required to produce synthesis can be split up among many people

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• Wikum allows you to summarize groups of comments on a Hacker News style forum

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• CG-comment-1

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• Clarity

• Codex OS

• Feedback for Chris Granger after we discussed Jump

• Hypernote

• A DSL for a discourse graph with information entry, visualization, and retrieval

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• Enable composable queries to facilitate structure in hindsight

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• Populate the related items section through a search term

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• Provide Push and Pull as inline syntax to affect the related items section for a page

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• Replace the backlinks section of a page with a related items section

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• Search as a primitive

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• Search terms as the basis for conditional formatting

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• Search terms as the basis for user-defined notifications

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• Search terms as the basis for user-defined subscriptions

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• Workspaces as a primitive

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• I don't want my tool to tell me how to think

• searchable blobs as unnamed groups enable unnamed formalization

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• If I’m thinking too hard about structure before I write the note, I forget what I was going to write down

• Interfaces for adjusting a query

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• Jump

• My tooling gets in the way of working at the speed of thought

• How can people maintain a decentralized discourse graph with a high quantity of information in it?

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• How do we enable many users with their own idiosyncratic structure to converge in one discourse graph?

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• How do we increase the frequency of social review?

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• How do we solve the problem of different people referring to the same concept with different language?

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• How might we allow people to adapt their past system and notes to current needs?

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• How might we apply map filter reduce to notes and what other primitives are relevant to this domain?

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• What are powerful primitives for a user of a decentralized knowledge graph?

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• What changes in a discourse graph as quantity of content increases?

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• What community roles are necessary in a decentralized knowledge graph?

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• What is a decentralized discourse graph?

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• What is a hypertext notebook?

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• What is an interface for going up and down the ladder of abstraction?

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• What is the data structure of a graph built to facilitate decentralized knowledge synthesis?

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• What user behaviors are people doing already that imply structure that is not being instantiated into a literal structure?

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• What user behaviors are scholars doing already that specify structure for synthesis?

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• What workflows and behaviors facilitate synthesis?

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• Search Behavior

• Voiceliner

• search-or-create

• sensemaking