- Container Metaphor and [Metaphor of the Road
People who drag mental models such as Evernote before Scrapbox tend to use tags as “containers”.
- For example, put the tag “book” on all your reading notes and go around.
- This recognizes the tag as “the container in which the pages about the book are placed.
But when I listen to shokai and others, I often hear the expressions “link,” “connect,” and “trace. - People remember places not by latitude and longitude, but by paths. - This is Metaphor of the Road. - Link is the way
- So is the metaphor “any door.”
- The road is not connected and cannot be traced.
- → Put the door out and put in a string that looks close to where you want to go.
- →Suggests some of the places you can actually go.
- →Choose the right one and the road will lead you to it.
I hear a lot of “we want to make the search better.”
- That’s like saying “I want a faster horse” at a time when automobiles were being created.
- I don’t have a problem with sticking with a horse just because it’s what you’re used to.
Lines like “Scrapbox is expensive to learn.”
- There’s not a huge amount of notation that needs to be explicitly learned or anything like that.
- I think the real hurdle is the “change in mental models” that isn’t explicit.
- And the more the mental model changes, the more useful Scrapbox is.
- However, in the management of nota, “usable without change” is chosen over “usable without mental model change”.
- As a result, it is difficult to see the need for change because the mental model can remain unchanged and still be used accordingly.
orthographical variants - Box Metaphor
relevance - Discovering and acting on cuts
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