Replied to https://boffosocko.com/2020/03/23/55769586/ by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

As I’ve been reading about Zettlekasten for part of the evening, it dawns on me that there are some likely overlaps with both my prior work on statistical mechanics and ideas of mnemonics and techniques like the method of loci. I’ll have to think of how to better memorize and specifically tag pi…

I’ve thought about this too – I started to think of my wiki as a textual memory palace in some way. For helping to path it out/memorize it I thought it would be fun to have kind of text adventure paths through it. I kind of did that (along with a little sketch) on the homepage. (mentioned briefly in here under the Personal textbooks? section https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/wikis)

I also wondered if wikis then became collaborative in some way, they could become collaborative memory palaces. https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200308210932-collaborative_memory_palaces

All quite half-baked ideas at the moment but something I really like the idea of.

Replied to https://boffosocko.com/2020/03/14/neils-noodlemaps/ by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

According to Neil, this is using “emacs with Org mode and Org-roam and publishing it as static HTML from org-mode. My holy grail would be something like TiddlyWiki but in emacs.”
I’ll have to take a look at this sort of set up while I’m looking at wikis. I’m sort of partial to TiddlyWiki m…

I think starting as frictionlessly as possible is a really good idea. Something where you can just easily type plain text and link those thoughts together – that’s the best place to start. For me that meant org-mode because I use it regularly anyway.

It’s evolving now with org-roam in the mix, in a direction I’m really happy with, but I think if I’d started trying to get everything in one I might have fizzled out. (That happened when I tried org-brain before – it was just too much friction).

I have some notes on my progression of wiki tooling here: https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200317105640-wiki_tooling

Replied to Indieweb musings by Graham (radium-basement.com)
Words first, I like the motto!  I’ve been doing my personal wiki as plain text only, pure brain dump, and really enjoying it that way.  I also like the idea of being able to wget a site.  The wiki I’ve got all the content in a git repo too – I like the idea of someone being able to clone it, or at least cherry pick bits they want.
Replied to End of year review 2019 by Calum Ryan (Calum Ryan)

Approaching the end of 2019 I look back on a year filled with some happy distractions away from the unending misery in UK politics and the climate crisis.

Happy New Year Calum!  That’s a good review.  Focusing on friends, family and health is a good antidote to the B-word for now.

Excited to hear there’s a IWC London in the works!

Replied to Goodbye 2019 (Oh Hello Ana – Blog)

Ana’s personal blog

Sorry it’s been a tough year for you Ana 🙁

Though I think you’re being hard on yourself (we are always our toughest critics) – it sounds like you did a lot! And I enjoyed hanging out with you at HWC.

Here’s to 2020 being a good one 🙂