(2) annotating dense works in humanities / philosophy and law
(3) annotating books & film scripts & editing them & playing with their text
(4) writing an essay where i have to juggle many ideas at once / i put the ideas on the side or the comments while weaving them into the draft (like joecool1029)
(5) planning the company roadmap / the vertical line is events by time / the horizontal is extra details about the event
(6) storyboarding films / keeping track of characters, settings, cameras, etc.
The markdown module works well as long as you don't use the fulleditor and the floateditor. But this creates an inconsistent user experience. I've decided to leave it out as a core feature for now.
I'll revisit it in the future. If I can fix it, great. If I can't, I might put it in with warnings that it doesn't work for the fulleditor and the floateditor.
A video would take a really long time. I'll make one when I'm done fixing everything. One thing you could try right now is making a 10x10 grid, then clearing the borders of the 2nd column from the left. Everything on the right would be inspiration or raw material. The leftmost column would be the actual draft.
Andy Matuschak talks alot about peripherals. I don't know if you know his writings.
COPYPASTE: A video would take a really long time. I'll make one when I'm done fixing everything. One thing you could try right now is making a 10x10 grid, then clearing the borders of the 2nd column from the left. Everything on the right would be inspiration or raw material. The leftmost column would be the actual draft.
It's just an analogy of music. Music is a succession of sounds. Ideamusic is a succession of ideas. Here's the guiding philosophy of Zeminary if you don't have a Twitter.
Scrivener was my first writing app that wasn't a part of MS Office. I also recommend it.
Tangentially, for anyone wondering — Zeminary isn't meant to replace other PKM and writing apps. You can have your ideas elsewhere, then assemble them in Zeminary.
I'll add tutorial text to the grids you see right now.
I did half-ass the launch. I didn't expect it to actually be on the landing page of hackernews. I was expecting to just have a few users to talk to about it.
I'll add tooltips as someone else suggested earlier.
I'll add hover options to make it easier to add new rows and columns.
I've been relying on hotkeys for a long time (you can click the question mark to see the interactions and hotkeys available to you). Thanks for bringing up those mouse-related UI problems.
Artists are very concerned with relationships of meaning and time.
When I write, I really only have one main line of thought, but to grasp what that thought means, I have to decompose it. I need to write to the side, to show that at this point in time, this and other thoughts arise. I don't want just the final line, I want to see all the lines that make up that line.
That's overkill for alot of usecases, but necessary for mine.
I also do alot of annotations of dense philosophical works. I have to seriously grasp them because I want my art to cohere.
I guess you could say Zeminary is a metathinking app. Or a chordal or a contrapuntal thinking app. It makes Ideamusic more deliberate.
You can do the same work in other places, but Zeminary makes it alot easier for me. For example, writing in one place doesn't cause everything else to shift around. Images and extra context local to a specific grid can be hidden in that grid (scrollable). The soft shadows help to "bleed" ideas. You can unborder grids to separate context. The bareness and the lack of distracting UI helps me to focus. Movable mindmaps are easier to pull off. There's marks, there's multipoint comments. There's alot of subtle touches. Etc. I'll be adding more feature layers in the future.
One of my future art projects is to write a 4096 part work based on the King Wen Sequence. 64 x 64 = 4096. It'll be very dense. I'm making Zeminary Tensor for that.
Zeminary Tensors might even become an app of choice for anyone looking to author & publish large textworks.
And progressive summarization / expansion / composition.
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Alot of people asked for usecases. I'll make example documents in the future. Some off the top of my head:
(1) translating & comparing & annotating translations
(2) annotating dense works in humanities / philosophy and law
(3) annotating books & film scripts & editing them & playing with their text
(4) writing an essay where i have to juggle many ideas at once / i put the ideas on the side or the comments while weaving them into the draft (like joecool1029)
(5) planning the company roadmap / the vertical line is events by time / the horizontal is extra details about the event
(6) storyboarding films / keeping track of characters, settings, cameras, etc.
(7) writing a book