Assertions can have supporting statements (as children), that can be further expanded and evaluated.
This way, I can evaluate and discard branches, distilling an argument to what matters.
Would a tool like this help me?
We built a note-taking system around digital notecards instead of documents, and those cards can be both linked hierarchally with parent/child relationships (and unlike most other platforms a card can have multiple parents) as well as with inline markdown link-style linking that you'll find in many other apps / wikis / tools for thought.
I definitely think the notecard format could be very useful for this use-case, as one card = one argument makes a lot of sense.
There are some things I would change, but I’m happy about the time and effort I’ve put in to the discussions there.