Authored by:: [[P- Joel Chan]]
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Let’s start with articulating some desire paths we’ve observed. I’ll focus on Roam first because this is what the [[Discourse Graph Plugin]] hooks into, but we can also generalize to other settings.
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Observations
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Typing unlocks affordances that people find useful for their knowledge work. A shortlist includes the following:
- Incrementally develop ideas over time
- Efficiently retrieve high-signal conceptual building blocks for synthesis and writing
- Trace provenance of ideas to high-signal types of sources, including one’s own thought context, and references/literature
- There are pretty good workarounds and techniques for specifying types of nodes.
- There is significant diversity in the specific language used for the terms, including wholesale differences in metaphors
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Specifying types of relationships remains clunky.