Talmudic Notetaking
30 Oct 2021 - 09 Mar 2025
- Was making mild fun of that Christian Note Taking app,
A new direction for note-taking apps https://t.co/WuQdlK4LRI
— mtraven (@mtraven) June 2, 2021 - and proposing a Jewish (Talmudic) app as a joke, but actually that's not a bad idea at all.
Jewish note-taking https://t.co/tIwWZcZKNN
— mtraven (@mtraven) June 2, 2021— mtraven (@mtraven) June 2, 2021
- What distinguishes this from, say, Roam, which has a pretty vanilla structure that it inherits from standard web and wiki conventions?
- Emphasizes annotation
- Chunks are not named topics but pieces of an ongoing conversation
- this is equivalent to comment threads
- A clear hierarchy of central text with annotations and meta-annotations clearly subordinate
- this might just be due to the practical constraints of paper, or a deep reflection of a hierarchical, centralizing world view.