Concept Refactoring - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious
Highlights
The kind of map you construct depends upon what you’re trying to see. ⤴️
So a hypertext network might be seen as a map constructed to describe more numinous territory… the indivisible, interdependent, mutually arising phenomena of ideas and experience. The map answers an implicit question. Refactoring lets us construct both our question and our answer through organic exploration. ⤴️
But unlike prose, which is mostly static, hypertext is evolvable. The map evolves to fit changing goals and changing territory. ⤴️
Factoring out documents. Notes often start out as a jumble of ideas. As a note evolves, separate ideas are factored out into their own notes. ⤴️
Merging documents: notes taken during different times can often end up capturing similar ideas, or elaborating on the same idea. We want to merge these. ⤴️
Suggest when an idea could be factored out into a document ⤴️
This is one that I don’t have… how can I implement it?
Suggest when related documents could be merged ⤴️
How different is this from suggesting links?