1 Ted Nelson in a very special case and deserves particular comment. Sadly, he seems a bit unhinged, and doesn't write much about the topic of keeping notes openly on the web.
2 Note added Later: David Allen's ``Getting Things Done'' system is actually pretty cool. Sadly, it does not appear on the Internet. But it's a cheap book. If you are interested in contributing to a study of notebook systems, this is a must read.
3 First, I wrote about the things that my notebook system will do to you, then I wrote about the dearth of notebook study on the Web, and now I'm writing about this third thing.
4 I actually believe that we should all communicating with what Robert Horn calls ``Visual Verbal Language''. The problem is that we don't have good tools to do so. Damn. It's a shame. When the tools come, there will be a revolution in communication just as big, if not bigger, than the revolutionary introduction of the Internet. So: Double Apologies for swabbing a mass of text at you.
5 Yes, I do recognize the irony. I'm just spitting this out with poor organization. But damn it, I'm not a skilled writer, and I have SO MUCH I want to express, so you'll just have to make do for now. Sorry.
6 See http://speakeasy.org/ lion/weird.html to see an example of this
7 ``Tie Noah Ma Rye Law Shoe Cow Ivy Bee Dice Tit Ton Tomb Tire Towel Dish Tack Dove Tub Nose...'' - yes, I chose Dice-Tit-Ton, I know... Though Toes-Tot-Tin were harder to work with.
8 I kind of like Tony Buzan. I kind of don't. I think that his rules are a bit constrictive. WHY must you use millions of colors? WHY must you draw them LIKE THAT? I don't want to. I think it's a waste of time. And I want to draw the maps how I want to. I don't find your way particularly perfect or anything like that. And I don't think that the ability to draw maps requires certification or anything like that. Okay. I have too much of an Anarchist in me. Drawing Power for the People! Much more a Mark Kistler guy. draw3d.com - YEAH! You're ALL Creative Geniuses! YEAH! Okay- I'm done.
9 I swear, I have just been touched by the spirit of Mark Kistler, by the mere thought of the man. Por la Sociedad Libre! I swear- that man wears too much black and red- and that big red and black star? The Raised Fist holding a pen? His insistence on the intrinsic value of people? Hmm...
10 What? Nonesense you say? That's not according to the system? Hey! Fuck you! There's no binder police! Tolerate errors!"
11 Much better way!
Partition your ``dictionary'' pages into 4 squares. A single data dictionary page has 4 DD (or maybe use ``DEF''?) entries.
ex: First pages has DD1-DD4, next has DD5-DD8, then DD9-DD12, yadda yadda yadda.
Now what you do is have a hash TOC for the DD's..! You just put the alphabet on the left side of the page- your keys- over 1-3 pages. Start at 1, then later expand to 2, then later to 3- and then set your keys up as the words that are defined, and the values to the DD# of the word defined.
There you go.
12 Ted Nelson's name for the infinite mental noosphere database; I think. I may have misunderstood what he meant.