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Personal Index
Connecting the disparate
"The phenomenologist must first identify the shapes of knowing that are spread out in time, and then reorganize them to bring out their logically necessary connections" Peter Kalkavage (2007), The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
November 2023
caden@ecphory.in
Reading time: 8 minutes
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Hello, welcome to reading this webdoc. It is about the conceptualization and specifications for really organizing digital content just for individual use. It is accomplished in five (as short as possible and not necessarily linear) parts as listed below. A few novel terms are introduced with links to additional information.
The Triangle
The Cricle
The Cross
The Square
Part 1: The Line [ ╲ ]
Line:1 The paragon of a definitive personal index
In the realm of tool design, the paragon of a defintive personal index aims to encompass all desired characteristics and features, creating a comprehensive program that serves as a one-stop solution for storing and accessing information. In this instance, the ideal leans towards being a single platform due to heightened requirements compared to most other platforms, driven by two essential reasons. The first crucial reason is to ensure that all information can be easily accessed. The second reason highlights the importance of functioning as a unifying index when such integration proves to be beneficial. These two reasons prioritize the choice of a single access point, a cohesive platform, over the potential alternatives of using multiple apps across operating systems. Some room remains however, in well executed interoperability.
Line:2 The user experience of files and information.
An individual creates structure in dialogue with the index.
Picture a user who has organized their content; every object, every file, in its particular place as they determined it, in a manner meaningful to them. This index is designed to optimize the user's experience in managing files and information, allowing them to create a structure in a dialogue with the index that aligns with their unique experiences.
Line:3 What is the absolute best platform that can store and access an individual's digital documentation by effectively addressing the diverse creative needs of individuals?
The fundamental question we aim to address in this webdoc. In persuit of this ideal, we propose a combination of research-oriented functionality seemlessly integrated with the interactive capabilities of an expandable 3D-based substrate, satifying all conceivable structures, presentations, and the arts of memory.
Part 2: The Triangle [ △ ]
The dynamics of memory processes pose a challenge for introspective comprehension for the concealed organizational aspects of human memory.
Many vectors Many faced god house of white and black
Thinkism do it in Bangaluru cheaper and needs a miracle
fundamental clear thinking.. clearest . AH!!!
What is it going to be based on the base
Memory function human
Can you see it if youre attuned enough, a thousand generations in the future
Part 3: The Circle [ ◯ ]
Part 4: The T-Chart [ † ]
Part 4: The Square [ ⬚ ]
At the present, within the grand scheme of software for personal use, a key and central concept is missing. This concept emerges out of the existing category of note-taking software and shares most of its purpose and goals. It ventures further beyond it's familiar boundaries into new territory as it expounds the notion of a comprehensive hypomneumatic system.
Defined as the priority and general incorporation of a hypomnematic system.
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significant lack of insight and consideration: the priority and general incorporation of a hypomnematic system. This system can be defined as an active externalization that encompasses various interconnected cognitive processes. This text hopes to explain a concept for such a system that is capable of all structures, presentations and completes the arts of memory.
The scope of a hypomnematic system is to realize the paragon of “the definitive personal database tool”. At a minimum, this would be a single access point for which the files and information of an individual are organized in some fashion, and systematically archived in some fashion. The user experience of creatively developing data structures in dialogue with software should be identified as either the low level facilities of studying, thinking, note-taking, and knowledge management or alternatively, the low level facilities for the interconnected activities of knowledge work. The central question is, and the concept of the Nilus Index will answer, what is the absolute best platform that can edit and store an individual’s digital documentation while effectively addressing the diverse creative needs of individuals? In order to flesh out the answer, six terms with specialized significance are introduced, with a hyperlink to provide additional information on each one.
Rapidly evolving technological landscapes and innumerable contextual situations are the hurdles for a framework for a hypomnematic system. Within this phenomenal environment, this system serves psychological mechanisms, which naturally are founded on the further complexities of neural physiology. Therefore, the ideal system has to interweave multiple moving parts in order to be robust. One can expect technological change as an antiquating factor, imagine new proprietary software and hardware that is not fully compatible. Another is tri-fold movement in the environment, the brain’s conceptions, and stored information. Both are important initial design reflections which are affected by innovation, one primarily technical and the other is a user experience. The latter consideration is a liminality that works in two ways, on occasion stored information is of benefit over the changes in the brain’s network and in the opposite case transformations of the brain would need to be updated in the organization of external information. For the first technical consideration of obsolescence, sticking to binary-code compatibility is a valuable preemption and of course, in contrast to analogue, digital content has the benefits of being duplicated to represent a vast range of alterable information that is portable across devices. Additionally, digital methods can resort to tracking information about using analogue tools and in the same way capable of exporting out of reach proprietary experiences. Another advantage of the digital format in this context is that unlike traditional methods, whereby just a passive recording is possible, computerized tools are open to data analysis with neuron emulating algorithms that have spawned the use of perceptive processing. Within the above considerations it is helpful to note that an externalizing system is not a passive record of mind and experience but a mutable substrate that is used to capture an individual's directed input, in the following paragraph this will be discussed in more detail.
As technology continually advances, individuals as the locus of control, are going through more information than ever, demanding increased sophistication. Although it is possible to retain the totality of one's digital interactions, the goal function of a personal database is to create a purposeful sense-making library. A helpful resource of past experience, tailored to the individual's needs. This kind of information technology tentatively fits simultaneously within the school of management's so-called field of personal knowledge management and informatics, the study of computational systems. In the former the 'management' referred to is in essence, to restate a third time, the background practices knowledge work and the learning process which support and aid higher order strategies of being and competence, as determined by each individual.
So far this text establishes that the foundations of the platform is feasible as digital media, its particular role is an augmentation of cognition, and preliminarily what an externalizing system is, the subsequent step in the concept is to determine the overarching nature and schema of the hypomnematic system. At the very core of this subject lies a useful duality, it arises from an examination of the optimal functioning of the human mind in working with created objects. This principle opens up the necessary degrees of freedom and flexibility necessary to set up every other feature. The duality is the combination of spatial embodied operations and purely functional operations. It represents a harmonious interplay between the advantages of deliberate navigation through spatial affordances and the rapid, direct usability offered by a database. Two new terms encapsulate these two facets: episodic storage and semantic storage, signifying the distinct yet interconnected aspects of the system. In summation and to rephrase and reiterate in alternative description the spatial embodied operations exist as a rendered 3D based substrate, and the purely functional operations.
The duality of a Nilus Codex can be articulated as being on the one hand, the fast usability and purely functional infrastructure of data. (Unifying parts, indexing, classification, metadata layers, provenance, and edit history.) And on the other hand, the slow navigation of phenomenal spatial affordances. (Spatial syntax, types of interaction articulated by building structure, aesthetics of meso-scale mise-en-scène, gestalt laws, and natural symbolism.)
The contrasting rationales of the two sides of a Nilus Codex pull in opposite directions and can recombine into useful assemblages. This option and freedom of ingenuity, in principle, enables all possible structures and presentations, which consequently, includes satisfying the full series of tactics contained by the arts of memory. A feat to date that does not require new technology, it is a concept that can be implemented by an ambitious software development team.
The dual nature of the Nilus Codex is unified when items in the database are accompanied by a particular location, often forming a durable link. This act of placement increases user value of a certain kind, namely becoming a resource. Reposing either as an intermediate-term placeholder or as a future node in a long-term structure. The capability of working with spatial affordances in this manner requires a purpose built level creator. This is a toolset that constructs localities focused on the amelioration and telos of a particular element of the database. The level creator does not simply dream up any environment, but manufactures, in collaboration with the user, an iteration of features that are relevant to the intentions of what is being stored. These generated features do not need to be overly complex, they can be abstract representations in a minimalist realization. The pivotal factor is that the features are sufficiently unique enough to spark a low-interference perturbation, carving out a distinct spatial coordinate in memory. The user's active participation in shaping the intention, composition, and layout of the location is a vital ingredient. This dynamic dialogue with the level creator balances fixity and flexibility allowing for dexterous and inventive manipulation for unconstrained storage. Locations are built with the capacity to evolve and expand over time, culminating in a personal record that is efficiently accessible.
File and information management is a critical aspect of individual knowledge work, yet contemporary tools have been advancing narrow conventions at a snail's pace. Existing software remains cornered by supporting a single or limited range of organizational strategies. These systems have failed to produce anything but linearly accumulative hierarchies, which can quickly become cluttered, unmanageable and overwhelming, leading users down a path towards a loss of productivity and efficiency. There is a felt and pressing need for novel and innovative solutions that can handle the diversity of personal data streams in a more intuitive and effective manner. The Nilus Codex with its dual nature outlined from the outset, provides the necessary latitude for a digital storage paradigm shift. The proposed interface is enacted by a library of conceptual mechanics which are abstract templates of rules, modules, ideas and approaches that are designed to be customized, combined and applied at will. The library of conceptual mechanics equips users with powerful tools to easily build hybrid structures, which emphasize the multiplicity, connectivity and fluidity of personal information. At any junction the user is free to pivot utilizing addressable spatialization. As a result, this significantly increases the user's expertise to synthesize, store, retrieve and memorize tremendous amounts of information for a wide variety of applications. Helping any cognitive endeavor that benefits from offloading and intermittent retrieval from an external system.
The Nilus Codex revolutionizes the way individuals engage with information in their daily lives by perfecting advanced processes of organization. The comprehensive cataloging of a mind, or individual documentation, enables the creation of a personal mesh that may either repose indefinitely or serve as a valuable reference and catalyst for future projects. This is accomplished by Nilus Codex users being empowered to generate and maintain large amounts of information laid out in arrangements that are passively retained by spatial cognition automatically forming long-term spatial memory. The library of conceptual mechanics is continually developed to fuse opposing priorities and keep the door open for its users to ask questions and think in terms of limitless cognitive ergonomics or the self-discovery of how one's memory and learning abilities function optimally.
The progression of humankind’s intellectual process is at hand; the smallest unit of humankind, the individual with a Nilus Index, can craft a personal storage system that supplements and enhances natural memory. Sketching out a new digital ontology of data is the representation of history or "knowledge" that an individual graphs out in a lifetime. Apart from a small list of individuals with hyperthymesia, human memory is disjunctive and fallible, benefiting from having an external backup. The most sophisticated backup is a dialectic on data straddling the pure utility of a database and the theater of simulation.