The Overview

Welcome to NotesWriter! This continues experiments in data collection and data presentation. I hope you enjoy!

Notes are snippets of information, either quotes or original text, which can be combined together into longer articles and documents. Initially they are presented in blog form. The idea is to develop a framework to manipulate the notes and create the documents in a transparent manner to both author and reader.

The NotesWriter section focuses on ideas about a digital content framework, thoughts about hypertext and hypermedia and about the cyber and the future.

Much of the resurgence of my interest on this topic has been inspired by the "Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art"^ seminar run by Beau Sievers in conjunction with the Bruce High Quality Foundation University^.


The three aspects to the NotesWriter project:

1. To be able to quickly and easily collect notes, especially from online sources.

2. To be able to quickly tag and categorize notes to begin to ascribe organization and meaning. This necessitates addressing the concepts of folksonomy and taxonomy.

3. To be able to transparently arrange notes into linear structures so that the structure can become reified whiles the notes remain atomized. The idea is that the outline is the best tool.

The challenge is to allow the author to act while allowing the readers to interact.

The start point for this new iteration of the project is to examine the state of hypertext theory and forms of digital literature to get a sense of how the framework should work and what it should produce.

Amos Satterlee
May 4, 2010
Table of Contents