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- 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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- when grappling with our problems today, to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear. |
- when grappling with our problems today, |
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to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear. |
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- structure our thoughts |
- structure our thoughts |
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- Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems |
- Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems |
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- 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, |
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courses we have taken, marks we got, types of plants, |
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classes in a program and structures in a plot |
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Programs such as personal information managers only allow us to capture a small |
Programs such as personal information managers |
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only allow us to capture a small |
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part of these in a fixed schema [#see-related-work]_. |
part of these in a fixed schema [#see-related-work]_. |
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Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery |
Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery |
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abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system |
abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system |
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should **center around the things we care about**, |
should **center around the things we care about**, |
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the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on. We propose a system |
the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on. |
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in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things |
in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things |
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that can be connected to each other; we propose, |
that can be connected to each other; we propose, |
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in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items |
in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items |