On Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:26:53 PM UTC-5, Liang Li wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:46:23 PM UTC-5, marttt wrote:
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> > teisipäev, 26. november 2013 8:07.21 UTC+2 kirjutas Liang Li:
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> > > Hey guys!
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> > > Here is a project I've been working on that's nearing completing. Check 
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> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_het11TBo
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> > > It tries to provide a new paradigm for writing massive amounts of prose 
> > > by simulating an infinite plane via "panning" splits. Tell me what you 
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> > > Thanks,
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> > > Liang
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> > Thanks very much for sharing this. I find it very-very interesting.
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> > I only know the basics of Vimscript, but I hacked together a few functions 
> > to implement "Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten" in Vim (not my blog, but see 
> > here about the method: 
> > http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html). I 
> > instantly thought how much easier a "luhmannian" way of note taking would 
> > be with your plugin. Must try it, right away.
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> > Thanks again, this is a project I'm definitely going to follow.
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> Awesome! I'm glad you get it. The system you linked to is very much like mine 
> in the sense that, despite his numbering scheme, it is actually mostly 
> organized by time. Ie, it is a linear numbering scheme and not one based on 
> content. This is why hierarchical note-taking schemes fall apart so quickly, 
> I believe -- categories are very ephemeral in the life of thinking. Raw 
> temporally organized accumulation, and ease of forking, are certainly 
> necessary elements in a robust note-taking system I believe.
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> The index card paradigm is actually how I originally imagined the plane. I 
> split the plane into 'big grids', and each big grid consisting of 3 splits 
> and 45 lines, would be a card. Also, originally, each label on the map was 
> confined to a cell to emphaizes the unity of that card. Lately, however, I've 
> been thinking of moving away from an explicit card system towards a more 
> loose positional system, where the map would just sort of designate a 
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> The other problem is realigning the map when you edit a portion from before, 
> which pushes the later text out of sync. Having some sort of automated 
> realignment is definitely on the todo list.
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> Thanks again for your interest!
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> Liang

Oh and by the way, the new home of the script is github.com/q335r49/textabyss

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