Find it interesting, that he even looks at the Wikipedia page for "Zettelkasten", in the video, which is the basic concept behind our #Alexandria.

If you use Alexandria to write notes and publish them to your local or private relay, it works like a notebook. We're trying to keep the rendering extremely calm and quiet, but have the app extremely feature-rich. I think you're going to be excited about the compose view, which is going to be a very powerful editor for writing NIP-62 style publications in plaintext or Asciidoc.

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Most of us on the team are using #Obsidian and I sometimes publish long-form articles with the Nostr plugin.

Combining Nostr, Obsidian, Asciidoctor, AsciiMath/LateX, and Zettelkasten, and then adding the twist with the ex-event citations and publishing/exporting to ePUB or LaTeX, and vector embedding navigation and event-data visualizations and LLM summaries and prompts.

...but make the interface very simplistic and quiet, so that you can use it to read, write, and share documents, on your phone, e-reader, tablet, or PC. 📝

It's really exciting. 😂

do you know abour quarto.org?

Yes, and the other similar efforts. We're keeping the data in Nostr events and publishing to other formats, from Nostr.

We're just going to scrape their stuff and put it in events.

The difference is that Nostr 30040 events are documents in a data store, instead of files. They just look like files, when you view them, and they can be exported.

Exporting to a file is like taking an ePUB, LaTeX, or PDF snapshot of a document (and any interactions with that document, like annotations, citations or highlights, which you could wrap into the document file, itself).

Did you guys ever come across Xanadu (uh, concept?), or OpenXanadu (the example app)? 🤣 I am infatuated with the idea of transclusivity and you guys are pioneering in that way for sure.

I wanted to write more in my article, about Brainstorm and GitCitadel but I needed to keep things simple, for exactly the same reasons you mention. I come from a place of desiring sovereign speech and eradicating user data from backend silos. I think I'm far more of an independent journalist than a developer, but I've always been into the coding stuff. Wanted to make video games a long time ago, so eventually might get back to that. In the mean time, just publishing one long-form article was questionable at best.

All I really see missing from the GitCitadel ecosystem is a local-forward frontend with support for different views. Of course, I'm championing the idea of LogSeq type of views, but I mentioned to JD/will that users really desire a flexible application that can swap freely between Markdown editing and.. whatever LogSeq does.. graphing nodes? Or whatever.

I am going to try and work with Jumble.social tomorrow and maybe host my own instance of it for directly interfacing with my relay.tools instance, so users will actually be able to just hop on to the same conversations, with nip-42 auth. We are getting really close to a great place, I think.

Also me rn: