What is this? (~2024-09-08)

Updated with “Yasukazu Nishio’s Scrapbox → Yasukazu Nishio’s External Brain”.

• The new version is “[What is this?
• The version as of 2024-09-08 will remain here for documentation purposes.

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• Personal Scrapbox of NISHIO Hirokazu.

What is Scrapbox?

• It’s a place to store and put information.
• Unlike blogs I write for future me to read.
  • You You may read it, but you don’t have to.
• More fine-unit fragments than a blog. - It is more like the information card introduced by Tadao Umesao in The Art of Intellectual Production. - - Many authors, not just him, have used similar mechanisms. - Once it was written on paper and placed in a private study. - So only he could see it. - This is not the final work, but to assist the person in the intellectual production of the work at the stage of creating it
  • What is placed on this site can be interpreted as an information card that NISHIO Hirokazu uses for his own intellectual production
  • I’ve been using it for about 5 years now and have 14,000 cards.
• Scrapbox is vastly superior to paper information cards. - Knowledge Network is represented by a mechanism for [Structuring information with links - The link to an unexpected destination and Scrapbox’s link suggestions are useful will help you discover pages you have written in the past. - Comparing similarities is a new way to learn.

Guide for New Scrapbox Readers

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• The best way to understand Scrapbox is to use Scrapbox yourself

  • I’ve written a lot of verbal explanations here Increased skill in using tools leads to a more detailed perception of the world, so the understanding of those who don’t use them doesn’t lead to those who do.
  • As a function of Scrapbox, when you search within your own Scrapbox project, a cross search is also performed against the Scrapbox projects you have viewed, giving you the opportunity to discover other people’s ideas about what you are thinking.
  • Since this service is focused on “growing your network of knowledge”, it is best to try to grow your own network of knowledge

• Meaning of the color of the links in the page

  • Red links are “doors that don’t lead anywhere yet” and therefore not useful to click on.
    • Think of it as highlighting keywords.
  • Blue links are links to other pages in Scrapbox
    • This page can be EMPTY.
      • empty is also useful because it displays a card at the bottom of the page with a list of “pages linked to that keyword”.
    • Example: [Philosophy of /shokai/Scrapbox]
      • This is a link to Scrapbox’s “Other Projects” page
      • This example links to a page in the shokai project that is developing Scrapbox
      • For English reader, currently auto-translation supports only in this project. Links to other Japanese project may broken because of translation of title.
  • Blue underlined links are links outside Scrapbox

• Meaning of the green and gray lines on the left edge of the page

  • They are called “telomeres.” For a detailed description, see /shokai/telomere.
  • Unread lines (= lines that have been updated since the last visit) are green
  • The more recently updated, the thicker.
  • Click here to get the permalink to the line so you can mention it.

• Q: Where do I start reading?

  • Option 1: Search for keywords of your interest
  • Option 2: Follow the links by clicking on the links that interest you at the bottom of each page.
    • Here’s a starting point for readers: Links for Readers.
      • nishio-en is the start point for English reader.

About Quotations and Licenses

. - Anything published can be cited. - We think it is a very good thing to cite, mention and develop

• We believe that it is a bad idea to make it difficult to utilize information because it is not clear who inherits the rights upon the death of the copyright holder
  • The information on this Scrapbox is licensed under a CC-BY license upon the death of NISHIO Hirokazu

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This page is auto-translated from /nishio/これは何？(~2024-09-08) using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I’m very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.