I wrote my original NodeWeb page in 2003.

At one point, I used "NodeWeb-2019" for what became Flux.Garden (after dropping a bunch of ideas from it).

Now, inspired by Jess Martin's summary of (2022-08-16) BetaWorks Render Tools for Thinking, I want to sketch out a vision for how I'd like to read/write/work.

Not-ironically, I'm struggling with how/where to capture this! Here, Miro, FreeMind?

• does that imply live-data-synch/interop, or just easy-ish migration from one "form" to another?

text/notes/links from diagram

• OneBigSoup, Everything is a Graph, (2020-12-22) Graph-driven SoftwareForge
  • hmm maybe Tana is way ahead of me
• UUID
• HTTP
• ReST
• PostgreSQL Everywhere? (2022-08-17) Udell Postgres Everywhere
• Node can have multiple Schemas (micropub micro-format)
  • I made gsheet of param for some microformats vocabularies, and for properties returned by APIs of commercial to-do-list apps, and for Dorian Taylor's Process Model Ontology gloss on to-do-lists, inheriting from IBIS and others.
  • Node = task (ToDoList)
  • Node = calendar event
  • Node = text-Block
  • Node can be a chunk of text bigger than 1 paragraph; like a sub-sub-section? can contain other nodes (not just text-type); have its own title? cf StructuredWriting
  • Node can be metadata pointer to remote node
  • Subset of nodes is a Collection (and is a Node)
    • Could be manually collected (becomes a tag?)
    • Could be query-based
• ReadItLater
• Annotation
• Personal Web Archive
• Auto-save; log/diff
• Modeless
• some possible UIs for section of the graph
  • WhiteBoard UI (like Miro)
    • Infinite Canvas
    • Place things anywhere
    • Optionally draw links?
    • Node can spawn a TreeView of children
  • TreeView-ish UI (like FreeMind) (alt: Winer-Outliner) - is this the default/fallback view?
    • Mostly-hierarchy
    • Incrementally load connected nodes
  • SoftSpace-ish UI
    • 3D/VR/AR
  • TableWidget UI
  • Doc/MarkDown editor (modeless, auto-save, logging/diff)
  • Indicate (icons?) whether a label has (a) contents; (b) children/links

tk

• notes on imagining use by
  • a product-team cluster;
  • a notes-geek (me);
  • loose team (TaskCloud)
• architecture hand-waving (e.g. OpenDoc, Personal Cloud)
• implications for what I might want to build, and how to change Flux.Garden to prepare for that...

UX for a traditional product team

Let's start from our agenda, and add discussion notes as we go along

• cf Technography
• TreeView UI
• a node can wikilink an existing task, an existing doc
• identify new to-do items for people, but they're still just text-nodes

Let's write a One-Pager

• in MarkDown
• wikilink to other nodes of strategic context
• the doc is probably 1 node with no "children"

Let's create an Opportunity Solution Tree

• use a whiteboard UI
• OST is a node, containing nodes (and links amongst them)
• any node can be wikilinked
• Let's discuss some candidate initiatives, make short-list
  • make pros-and-cons table (hmm markdown format? or gdoc?)
  • make fancier table with more columns (WikiCalc? gsheet?)
• can pick top initiatives candidates, create task for each to have someone draft one-pager

I'm looking at my ToDoList, esp to pick/do Most Important Task

• for any of my existing tasks that were mentioned, I link the task
• for new tasks for me, I create a new task, then link it from the text-node (I don't "convert the text node into a task" because I want to leave the original language in-place, but the task Title itself might be best worded differently)
• query not-Done tasks I created, or assigned-self, or otherwise Watch
• I have my own person Priority ordering from previous drag-and-drop ordering
• a task has a Title and a Body, and meta-data
• I have a question about this task, I attach a message, naming them. They'll see open-item in their list, can respond. Discussion-thread-graph is a child of the task.
• Question resolved, I complete the task. Watchers of that task get status-done update.
• I realize I need to add a Next task to the same "project" - I jump into that graph, find the right place to insert the task, insert it.
  • By default it will start at the top of my list? Or maybe I'll have an UnPrioritized Inbox?
  • or maybe I assign it to someone else, so it will show up in their Inbox to Prioritize
    • I can see the priority-position in their queue