Plato distinguished and opposed internal and external memory capture/storage/organisation/sharing. ⤴️

from my own experience in information practises i need a property/connection/link to have semantics associated
what is a link in each context
connections have meaning, labels and cadence and metadata
this is my problem with actor network theory as I roughly begin to understand it - a flat ontology is just not a fair abstraction of reality as we aren’t unhierarchically linked to everything in the same way, there are always power differentials and meaningful bonds that need acknowledging

whilst hyperlinks can retain extra info in specific arguments or with labels, its not very human-readable nor can account for the full extent of context needed in all cases eg asserting statements with authorship and assuredness differentials

semantic web triples (or even better, quads) can account for this. see RDF quads for statement assertion

Resources

Representing Provenance and Track Changes of Cultural Heritage Metadata in RDF A Survey of Existing Approaches

why i write lowercase

informality, readability
texting habits
coding habits
i use capitals for Emphasis
rejection of the Proper, rejection of professionalism
context - i’m autistic, my brain prefers it, and i’ve learnt the importance of respecting these kinds of quirks
an ‘i’ in particular seems less assertive and more speculatory in lowercase - i as in my current flow of thoughts, not I as in A Fixed Entity
mostly - i usually type one-handed, i’m quicker and less strained this way - chronic pain and bodily positioning

index of potential

most ‘pages’ here are mostly empty. i create them as links from other pages, or because i know its a concept i refer to frequently, or that i have resources i’d ‘tag’ with that phrase, or this is a ‘seed’ to plant or a ‘thread’ to pull, or just generally a standalone atomic fragment

this is partly due to legacy systems, partly by whim, partly by choice. in the future the interface and routing mechanisms will better respect when links are more important than content. for now, there may just be a lot that seems empty.

it is often an external cue for something in my brain or in the world to which i want to refer without attempting to rewrite every thought i’ve ever had.

there are more concrete theory-based justifications also - external mnemonic traces are useful despite their partiality, redlinks are important, digital gardens are never ‘finished’ and naturalistic data is messy