notepads for intentionality and clarity
Usually, searches have an objective. More than simply collecting a large quantity of pages and comments under one or multiple spaces, and being left with a list without structure.
I propose notepads:
Have objective oriented notes, where excerpts of sites and PDFs, and comments could co-exist in an organisable manner.
I think this would solve the reason why I quit memex in the first place: it's a pain to find stuff because all things are in one or multiple bags, without clarity or intent. That's how we actually remember stuff to make use of them: from the reason and objective of searches that led to links, not by the arbitrary name of the site. That's not how my brain at least works.
Notepads should co-exist with simple excerpts, comments and such, which are the atomic level of memex. The idea is to add a layer of overarching structure where we can place links, excerpts in the right place: one place with a continuous narrative/structure where dozens of links and comments make sense together.
Notepads are companions of surfing :)
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[Deleted User]
Aug 24, 2024
I think there might be a fairly simple way to do this — automatically create a top level excerpt/comment to each space. That way whenever you create a space you have one place to do space-wide organizational kind of notes. This would work even better once we have “chat with your notes” where AI could summarize content across all the links in a space. This space-level note could be smart too, suggesting inserting links to content in the space so you can build an effective overview of the space’s content.
Anonymous User
Oct 21, 2023
This would be fantastic, I think it is exactly what is currently missing.
The workaround I see currently is to have a page in logseq that acts as a notepad and links to a synced spaces' items. But its not ideal as linking has to be done manually.
Anonymous User
Oct 14, 2023
this is similar to the diigo outliner https://www.diigo.com/outliner/start