Liminal is from the natural sciences, so he was inspired by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

They're the basis for wikis, but wikis don't have stable content, so they're actually a different thing. The content of zettel isn't supposed to vary wildly or change 5 times per day. It's something you write down and keep, to use and rearrange later, like snippets cut out of paper.

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Yes! Good on point on the difference between snippets of source material vs linking to variable wikis. Noted! ✍️

(Reminds me of the book "Lila" by Robert Pirsig, where the main character Phaedrus uses a similar system of slips to organize his thoughts into a book)

People probably think I'm nitpicking about using different types of events for different purposes, but it's the sort of narrow difference that balloons over time. And nostr's interoperability means that there's no advantage in just using one event-type or client for everything.

We can just make article addresses work inside of wiki pages and wiki addresses work inside of articles. Done.

when i was a kid this was how you found stuff in the library

Yeah, card catalogs.

those things were so awesome