The advantages of Scrapbox

I was asked to speak briefly about the advantages of Scrapbox in my company, so I wrote notes of what I would say (2017-09-15)

• Wiki.
  • automatic saving.
• When multiple people edit at the same time, the cursor appears like Google Docs and you can see everyone’s editsCollaborativeEdit
• Data can be exported as JSON
• JSON can also be imported
• Mechanically generating pages and tags may not be very interesting
• As a wiki, it’s probably a lot better than Confluence, but if you like to categorize your pages in a hierarchy, Scrapbox may not be for you.
  • Don’t try to force hierarchical classification, give up, sort ofhierarchical classification
• It’s better suited for writing a little bit in itemization than for writing long sentences.

If you want to try it out

• If you want to experience the gradual structuring of information, you can create a Scrapbox for one person and write down anything and everything.
• If you want to experience collaborative editing, you can do something like a live thread of an internal study group.
• If it’s too hard to do it with information used for work, how about doing something like this for the purpose of “employees getting to know each other better” https://scrapbox.io/mitou-meikan/

What does “gradually becoming more structured” mean?

• First, I’ll write it all down as I see fit.
• Useful texts will eventually be read again (found in a search, remembered while writing something else, etc.)
• Add keywords/tags as appropriate to make it “more useful” at that time
  • For example, if you write [foo] in the useful results of a search for foo, a list of those pages will be displayed on the foo page.
  • If you’re writing another sentence and you think, “Oh, I remember writing about baz,” and you unearth that sentence, you can write [baz] on both, or you can write
• It gets more and more interesting.

relevance

• What’s so great about Scrapbox | bitjourney Kibela

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