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# Line 33  we still have no sufficiently good **too Line 33  we still have no sufficiently good **too
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34  - organize what we know about a thing, so that we can understand it better  - organize what we know about a thing, so that we can understand it better
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36  - when grappling with our problems today, to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear.  - when grappling with our problems today,
37      to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear.
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39  - structure our thoughts  - structure our thoughts
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45  - Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems  - Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems
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47  - Work: budgets, employees, phone calls, courses we have taken, marks we got, types of plants, classes in a program and structures in a plot  - Work: budgets, employees, phone calls,
48      courses we have taken, marks we got, types of plants,
49      classes in a program and structures in a plot
50    
51  Programs such as personal information managers only allow us to capture a small  Programs such as personal information managers
52    only allow us to capture a small
53  part of these in a fixed schema [#see-related-work]_.  part of these in a fixed schema [#see-related-work]_.
54    
55  Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery  Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery
56  abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system  abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system
57  should **center around the things we care about**,  should **center around the things we care about**,
58  the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on. We propose a system  the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on.
59    We propose a system
60  in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things  in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things
61  that can be connected to each other; we propose,  that can be connected to each other; we propose,
62  in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items  in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items

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