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What if every button in your app had an email address? What if apps could email each other? What would they talk about? This might sound absurd, but it…
Gordon Brander
Jun 17Share
The goal of Subconscious is to generate self-organizing ideas. Organizing ideas through sheer force of will is difficult, and I am lazy. Luckily there …
Gordon Brander
Jun 11Share
Wikis are like the Minecraft of tools for thought — very simple, very open-ended. The simplest thing that could possibly work
Gordon Brander
Jun 5Share
Hypertext wants to be refactored. Ideas are written down in one place, then rewritten, moved, titles changed, links redirected, pages split and merged.
Gordon Brander
May 29Share
This week’s update is little bit different. Instead of sharing the ideas behind Subconscious, I want to share some work in progress. While building Sub…
Gordon Brander
May 21Share
The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrum…
Gordon Brander
May 14Share
I find that I interact with notes in two distinct ways: inward and outward. To unpack what I mean, here are two scenarios: Scenario 1 (Outward): I see …
Gordon Brander
Apr 30Share
My goal for Subconscious is to create a system capable of provoking emergence. Minecraft, the web, wikis, spreadsheets, and legos are all examples of s…
Gordon Brander
Apr 23Share
What is the shape of hypertext? Hypertext resists the single linear narrative. Thoughts, also, resist the single linear narrative. They exist as someth…
Gordon Brander
Apr 16Share
Today the book is already… an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in the card box of th…
Gordon Brander
Apr 9Share
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.- Tom Stoppard This tool-for-thought project fina…
Gordon Brander
Apr 3Share
What if your notes could self-organize—from scratch notes, to draft, to finished creative work—through a stream-of-consciousness process—like dreaming?…
Gordon Brander
Mar 26Share
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