Summary at this time

  • Those who want the experience of reading the book as a continuation can read the book version, so there is no need to be concerned about maintaining the order.
  • Multiple people writing in one book is quite a departure from the usual mental model of reading, so it’s highly challenging.
  • We should first test the hypothesis that the customer value of Scrapbox books is “connected here and there by keywords,” which books do not have.

  • If Scrapbox had a “sort by oldest created date”, each page of a book, etc., could be posted in order and read in sequence.

    • Toshiyuki Masui Can’t you sort by “Date created”?
      • I was hoping that it would be in reverse order. Right now it’s in order of newest to oldest, so pages created later come on top.
  • The experiment of putting books in Scrapbox is not going very well, obviously due to the lack of links.

  • Also, I still think people will feel like they can write in, so maybe it would be better to show a sample of how to rewrite it.

  • The footnotes are right at the end of the page because you don’t want to interrupt the flow but you want them to be close by.

  • I’ve put the table of contents in the chapters now, so the links from the end pages go to the chapters suddenly, but this is not correct from a civil law map perspective, and you should follow the path even if it is a hassle until you have a map in your brain.

    • The purpose was that when reading something that is hierarchical, it is good to descend from a large group to a smaller group in order to grasp its position in the whole.
    • I put “The Engineer’s Guide to Intellectual Production” into Scrapbox, and the next in the hierarchy of chapters is immediately at the end of the hierarchy, and when I first made it so, I thought that it would be tedious to click and retrace, but now I have changed my mind and think that clicking and retracing over and over is important for imprinting the positioning. However, I have now changed my mind and think that it is important to click and follow the chapters many times in order to imprint the position of the chapters.
  • Those who want the experience of reading the book as a continuation can read the book version, so there is no need to be concerned about maintaining the order.

  • The first hypothesis to be tested is that the customer value of Scrapbox books is “connected here and there by keywords,” which books do not have.

  • The hypothesis that it would be interesting if multiple people could rewrite the book is a natural idea for Scrapbox, a collaborative editing system, but it is highly challenging because multiple people writing in a single book is quite a departure from the usual mental model of reading.

    • Toshiyuki Masui I once tried to read a novel in Scrapbox while editing it together, and it was a lot of fun. I think there is no problem if we work together in a similar environment, right?
      • My interest is in intellectual productivity, so whether it’s novel or fun is out of scope.
  • I still have a problem with the fact that I made it a joint editing project, which made me hesitant to make major modifications, and I wonder if it would be better to experiment on my own first.


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