Atlas

A guide book for building long-lasting Knowledge Systems. This is a work-in-progress.

Outline

• Guiding principles
  • Anti-fragile
  • Modularity
  • Sheering layers
  • Build for change
• Topology
  • Transclusion
    • Structural sharing
    • Delta compression
  • Graph vs. Linear
  • Just-in-time linearization
  • Ted Nelson and Xanadu
  • Linking
    • One-way vs. Two-way
  • Hierarchical vs. Network
  • Tagging vs. Folder
  • Feed (recent-first) vs. Chronology (oldest first)
    • Two tier approach: Chronology nested in Feed
• Persistence
  • Binary vs. Text
  • DB vs. File
• ID
  • Readability
  • Collision resistence
  • Distributed generation
• Editor
  • WYSIWYG vs. Source code
  • Pros and Cons of HTML
  • Modal vs. Direct
  • Block vs. Plaintext
• Data synchronization
  • Eventual consistency vs. Strong consistency
  • Row-level consistency
  • Git as backend
• Search
  • Retrieval as critical path in thinking
  • In memory search engine
• Capture
  • Omnibox approach
• Hosting
  • Self-host vs. Service vs. Embedded
• Database
  • Indexed DB
  • SQL