link to an unexpected destination

It is fun to experience “unexpected linkages” when using Scrapbox. When they experience this, they begin to create a lot of “not yet connected links” in the hope that links will unexpectedly connect in the future. The name “bracketing” was invented for this “link-making behavior,” but the crucial phenomenon of “unexpected linkage” does not have a name.

I want words to explain that “XXX is fun,” “XXX is beneficial to intellectual production,” and “that’s why we do bracketing, to make XXX happen.”

How I came to that conclusion

• Create a page on Scrapbox that mentions other people’s slides.
• I think, “Wait, this is a broken link if the service goes out or something, I should keep it on hand.”
• Download
• It would be nice to be able to search all these local files at once through Scrapbox’s search window.”
• I thought, “Wait a minute, isn’t the whole ‘storing and searching files’ thing something that existed before Scrapbox, and Scrapbox’s strength is that it connects unexpectedly when you’re writing a link?”
• ‘Let’s write it down, not just search for it, xxxx, huh? There’s no word?”

memo

• Local files should be able to XXXX as well as search.

• Should be able to bracket PDFs of other people’s presentation materials, photos, etc.

• It would be very nice if it could be bracketed into an e-book.

  • Even for non-editable subjects, you can record data in the form of a set of permalinks and phrases

• Associative connection: planned contingency.

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