Neurite

It’s mind-mapping software that has a “zoom” component, and uses Mandelbrot fractal visuals as a background to provide some kind of landmarks I guess? Neat, but I’m a bit turned off by the grandiose readme. Reading it felt like I was trying to decode the product offering of an NFT platform from a few years ago or something.

Great concept! However like many zettelkasten implementations it gives the user too much freedom imo. To me zettelkasten are most useful because of their limitations, like restricting the size of each note, limiting how many notes you can see at a time, or limiting how fast you can traverse through notes. I think it's more important to be able to hold the overall structure of notes in your mind, which zettelkasten facilitates by intentionally making everything harder to do.

https://neurite.network/ doesn't appear to work in Firefox.

Uncaught TypeError: tag is not a string

    forNodeTitle https://neurite.network/js/zettelkasten/zetcodemirror.js:19

    <anonymous> https://neurite.network/js/zettelkasten/zetcodemirror.js:23

    <anonymous> https://neurite.network/js/zettelkasten/zetcodemirror.js:276

Also in part because it's trying some localhost stuff? o.0

  ERR: Not connected to Localhost Servers 
  TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. main.js:126:34

  http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/tags

  Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at 
  http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/tags. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).

Some nice UI decisions (dragging hyperlinks to spawn new nodes), but overall it seems like an art project (i.e. how it started) with unclear practical advantage over a more straightforward "second brain" like Obsidian, or established AI/data workflow tools.

Apologies, but this reads like one of those net.kook manifestos from the 1990ies.

To me, the next generation of PKM doesn't lie at the level of representation but at the level simplification, and integrating prior strands of though into something usable.

We leave such data trails, but every time we switch or another tool comes along, the switching cost/conversion process leaves much to be desired and some of our prior history beyond reach.

Even as plain text, the sheer feature discrepancy between tool A and B leaves our knowledge siloed. The semantic Web had its moments, but we never took that concept to heart when considering our individual webs of thought.

Your semantics and mine may be inoperable, but that's okay. We just need better tooling to accustom our personal semantics, and I think projects like this lay the groundwork for that.

I have a technical question about "fractal" viz like this. How is object scale represented?

Is it just a float, i.e. the fractal is not really infinite?