Nusys_rescope

Vannevar Bush’s Memex as described in ’As We May Think’ is still the most apt metaphor for knowledge management. Some categorize the web as a realized form of the Memex but I consider it to be a tool of the Memex, a subsection. One thing not realized from the Memex in current computing is the ability to spacially arrange information and recall it at will. I worked on a tool that was meant to bridge this called Dash(Nusys) that was originally based off of OneNote, but is more akin to Obsidian’s Canvas mode. Nusys was a C# .NET desktop app in the Universal Windows Platform(RIP) and it was written primarily for pen and touch interfaces, which explains the tech choices. At the time developing and maintaining a desktop application was more at the whim of the hardware, now there are solutions to build across platforms that work more consistently.

In my opinion, the full featureset of the Memex is not containable within a Desktop application in userland, it is a superset of the features available to these applications. I believe this exists somewhere between desktop utilities and a window manager. Apple’s Stage manager is a close idea of a ui that could help manage slides, but desktops tabletop metaphor requires a way to file and recall more complex scenes

• Hyperlinks to fine application state
  • simple as open nvim to file, is possible
  • slack links are a pretty good compromise
  • open super fine grain context menus
• Slides
  • Should be able to preserve a view of fine grained screened
  • Should be able to declare a pattern for fine grained slides in order to see views
• XPath html fragments isolated
  • I want to take this loading bar and put it on a screen or grid
• Live Collaborative Slides
  • this is likely the hardest, the computers should be running the same thing or have the same programs synced? would be different for each but likely could just bridge w zed, other collab software