]> 2026-04-18T02:58:37+00:00 Xanadu 0 en 2022-11-11T14:04:40Z 2459895.0865741 Xanadu 0 I think of all of these tools as "personal hypertext notebooks" - basically taking what is possible in wikis (organizing by means of linking, hypertext) and lowering the barrier to entry (no need to spin up a server, can just download an app and go). The common thread across these notebooks then is allowing for organizing and exploring by means of bidirectional hyperlinks between "notes": - In [[Obsidian]] each linkable note is a markdown file and can be as short or long as you like - in [[Logseq]]/[[Roam]] and other outliner-style notebooks, you can link "pages", and also individual bullets in the outlines on each page. In this way, the core functionality of these tools is similar to a wiki, but they do leave out a lot of the collaborative functionality that makes wikis work well (granular versioning and edit histories, talk pages, etc.). So for folks like <@305044217393053697> who are comfortable with wikis already, they add marginal value IMO. Their technical predecessors in the "personal (vs. collaborative) wiki" space include [[TiddlyWiki]] and [[emacs org-mode]] (and inherit their technical extensibility: many users create their own extensions of the notebooks' functionality. an example is the [[Roam Discourse Graph extension]] that <@824740026575355906> is using). These tools also tend to trace their idea lineage back to vannevar bush's [[Memex]] and ted nelson's [[Xanadu]]. 0011-11-20T14:05:36Z 1725401.0872222 Xanadu#joelchan86-22-11-11 14:05:36 Has Topic 102 en Has Topic