# Are you familiar with the concept of “transpointing windows”?

Conceptually it’s similar to what you’ve done with hyperlinks here (and it’s
part of early conceptions of hypertext — being an important…

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Are you familiar with the concept of “transpointing windows”?

Conceptually it’s similar to what you’ve done with hyperlinks here (and it’s
part of early conceptions of hypertext — being an important part of Xanadu,
though not Memex). Basically, you have some n corpora, in windows or columns,
and associated sections are highlighted and then connected with a line or a
rhombus; when a highlighted section is selected, associated sections in other
windows scroll to align to it.

(There’s a little more complexity: highlighted sections can overlap, and you
can have connections to multiple non-contiguous sections of the same corpus,
both of which present problems that make UI behavior necessarily less
obvious.)

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [November 20,
2017](https://medium.com/p/50dc73bd931e).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/are-you-familiar-with-the-concept-
of-transpointing-windows-50dc73bd931e)

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