Scrapbox is not for writing.

• Using Scrapbox for “high-intellectual-productivity-intensive” writing, you can understand why Scrapbox is not suitable for this purpose.

  • It’s like doing a load endurance test on a chair or something and observing where it breaks.

• So the topic of “Scrapbox and Writing” is gaining momentum among those who are familiar with Scrapbox - Writing in Scrapbox

• However, it would be unfortunate if someone unfamiliar with Scrapbox sees this and makes the mistake of thinking that Scrapbox is suited for writing.

• Don’t use tools with extra overhead when doing a cognitively demanding task like writing

• Be clear about the intent of the phrase “Scrapbox is not for writing.”

  • Scrapbox is, - finite time In,
    • Paper books with a finite number of pages,
    • Build in a tree,
    • To be completed in neat and clean handwriting.
  • Not suitable for

• finite time

  • Writing has a deadline set by the editor.
    • Or there is no deadline and “if you don’t set your own deadline and move forward, you’ll never get published”.
  • Scrapbox, on the other hand, is “Always unfinished” and “[Not a warehouse for dead text.
  • Scrapbox is a way to keep text alive, writing is a way to kill text

• Finite number of pages - Books are a tool for finitization

  • Scrapbox is creating more and more unconnected links and spreading more and more.

• (Christmas) tree - The Scrapbox Information Organization describes the history of information organization in three stages. - The book tree structure is a tool oriented toward Information Organization 1.0, and Scrapbox is a tool oriented toward Information Organization 3.0 with network structure.

  • In the process of transforming Scrapbox data into book form
    • Attaching pages that have been divided into small parts again.
    • I’m going to remove the links I’ve put there.
  • This is a torturous process, like “[Fill in the holes you dug for yourself.
  • Nowadays, it is a little easier because of the “Copy plain” function to remove links and copy them, but Mr. Kurashita did not have that function, so he removed them by hand.
  • The final editor receives it in text format and typeset it in InDesign.

• clean copy

  • The process of killing a living text

So what is it suited for?

• Books that do not need to have a tree structure [collection of essays
  • Specifically, for example, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Ootaki Radio /ootaki, 50 selected articles from the past 500 will be published in a paper book.
• No deadline or specific project yet, and you want to write something but have not yet decided exactly what you want to write.
  • If you keep writing things that come to mind in Scrapbox and doing “Do not erase the manuscript.”, you will gradually accumulate some things.
    • It makes it clear after the fact what you want to write about.
  • You may share that project with more than one person.
  • If you feel embarrassed to do it publicly, you can do it privately.

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