Opinions from #ToolsForThought folk desired:
Many of the recent spate of PKM tools are outliners or at least very graph oriented.
What impact do you suppose this has on getting to the narrative, story, or even gestalt of a thing?
I sometimes worry that outlines are great at facts and deduction but less great at tales, induction, intuition.
Thoughts?
@anticdent Are you talking more in terms of thinking/sensemaking for yourself, or communicating to others?
Either way, there's nothing stopping you from making a node, or a series of nodes that provides a "pocket universe" of coherence.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiEbook
@billseitz Both? Yes?
The origin of the thought/question was a general sense of malaise and nostalgia for long form writing in the context of every tool I use (by myself or with others) encouraging (by making it easy) the creation of lists.
Meanwhile attention spans of readers being what they have demonstrated themselves to be, bullet points get attention, stories do not.
And somewhere in my head that means a deep lose of meaning, for me, for people reading me, for my reading of others.
Try Logseq's Document Mode to quickly switch between an outliner and a long-form writing tool.
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