Now
What is a now page, and why is it useful?
... a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.
It’s useful for the same reason an “about” page is useful on your site: because people on your site want to know more about you.
Besides answering the common question, “What are you up to these days?”, those who have a now page say it’s a good reminder of their priorities. By publicly showing what you are focused on now, it helps you say no to other requests.
From: Derek Sivers's https://nownownow.com/about
- h/t to Matthew Siu for making the first now page I saw.
January 2021
- (Note: 1/31): Started working on NYC Vaccine List mid month, this has taken most of my time since then.
- Making tools-for-thought: what if you could visualize implicit timelines in your texts?
- Mentoring at the CBIT Healthcare Hackathon
- Testing Dendron / PARA as a personal knowledge management PKM tool
- Visually navigating networks / hierarchical data (see: Navigating Networks)
Last month
December 2020 - Areas
- Making tools-for-thought: providing context while reading
- Managing the COVID-19 data flood:
- Maintaining Covid Commitment with Alex Rich
- Visualizing data source discrepancies (Unnamed)
December 2020 - Projects
- Used
nodes.iofor a WebGL Scatterplot - Open Source
- Enhancement to StorybookJS: Object explorer knob
- Maintenance for
tiingo-python(API / migrate from Travis to Github Actions)
- Erging / Indoor Rowing: completed 200km for Concept2 Holiday Challenge
Implementation Details
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Thread of tools for tracking visual change over time
Thread of tools for watching changes to a creative object (text, code, picture) over time - do you know of any others, or have an idea for something else you'd like to watch evolve? https://t.co/xgL0nMeUxL
— Cameron Yick (@hydrosquall) December 24, 2020 -
- Last month: rewatched / annotated the 9 Bret Victor videos on Youtube (convert notes to digital)
- Following CodexEditor's project updates
- Looking at Digital Humanities annotation (Pelagios Network) / Rainer Simon's work
- On communication:
- Informal notes on interhackt Highlight Reel. H/t Harry Vangberg for linking to the projects in his Skrift UI Ideas thread.
- Wikipedia Browser | writeup
- Taming hairballs
- ConVRSation demo video
- Would this work in 2d? How might it look to have a live conversation inside of a mindmap?
- Use spatial memory to track threads
- Hyperpoems
Hyperpoem :: knowledgegraph asbonsai :: treeorconstellation : night sky- Herman Hesse's "Glass beads" game for structured riffing on ideas
- Sidebubb
- Whimsical interactions (bar charts racing) + collapsible threads
- Collaborativity
- Visualize chat where nodes are messages or topics, view traditional thread next to a network graph representation
- https://twitter.com/interhackt_/status/1342317587481313280?s=20
- Related to chat feature: when citing text, link back to original reply with exact text location: https://twitter.com/ichverstehe/status/1343168580377075712?s=20
- On contextual citations: Tom Critchlow's Quotebacks
- https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/06/09/quotebacks/
- ... led to Hypothes.is, Worldbrain Memex, annotation corner of the web, etc
- https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/06/09/quotebacks/
- On contextual citations: Tom Critchlow's Quotebacks
- Wikipedia Browser | writeup
- Informal notes on interhackt Highlight Reel. H/t Harry Vangberg for linking to the projects in his Skrift UI Ideas thread.
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Serendipity via Juxtaposition
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Grant Custer's twitter question
- What might we do if we had a real time visualization of what we were building, as we write programs?
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Devon Zuegel's Timeline idea: https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1341261611282038784?s=20
- "What if history books had a timeline on every page that showed dots with the occurence of events that happened on that page"?
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Mark Twain's Memory game (via browsing Manuel Lima's "Book of Trees")
- Not storing dates for the sake of memorization, but to have a scaffold upon which to drape other ideas
- People learn history 1 "domain" at a type, and don't often realize when events from different civilizations were contemporary (e.g. Spanish history vs US history)
- Related: Art exhibit organized by time, rather than artist or subject (via Devon)
- https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/1343620760078848001?s=20
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"Zwicky boxes" / morphological boxes
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Creativity via constraints / unexpected juxtaposition
- Suite magnetic poetry games
- digitized: frij.io
- Suite magnetic poetry games
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Many views of the same thing
- The "multigraph" react component
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Scratchpad
- Untitled Timeline Project
- Took notes on Marvel 616 / Artist design process
- Finished reading Understanding Comics
- Learned about emdash, endash, hyphen