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[Epistemic Status: Scroll to the bottom for my follow-up thoughts on this from
months/years later.]
Early this year, Conor White-Sullivan introduced me to the Zettelkasten method
of note-taking. I would say that this significantly increased my research
productivity. I’ve been saying “at least 2x”. Naturally, this sort of thing is
difficult to quantify. The truth is, I think it may be more like 3x, especially
along the dimension of “producing ideas” and also “early-stage development of
ideas”. (What I mean by this will become clearer as I describe how I think about
research productivity more generally.) However, it is also very possible that
the method produces serious biases in the types of ideas produced/developed,
which should be considered. (This would be difficult to quantify at the best of
times, but also, it should be noted that other factors have dramatically
decreased my overall research productivity. So, unfortunately, someone looking
in from outside would not
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Having coined terms like hypertext and hyperlinks, the ideas of computer pioneer Ted Nelson helped define the web as we know it today. At the core of his beliefs was the desire for computers to go beyond paper if you think about it, a word processor isn’t much different than a typewriter. The way he saw it, computers should extend our capabilities.
But many of Ted’s ideas never came to fruition. One of those was transclusion, which was supposed to be part of Project Xanadu, his hypertext model founded in 1960.
When we interviewed Nelson for our Pioneers series, he described the concept this way: “Transclusion means that part of one thing is included in another and brought from the original. In the Xanadu method, the transcluded portion has a path back to the original that you can follow.” You can see the original mockup below, and a more recent prototype of what he had in mind here.
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