Jacob Sam-La RoseFeb 20, 2024

Start pages are still “a thing”.

https://jon.bo/posts/new-tab/

Call me old, but I can glom onto the notion of a start page more readily than I can an MOC, and there’s a lot of crossover between the two concepts.

There’s a whiff of this in my daily log/journal template, but having read this post, I realise there’s more I can do (without overdoing it).

in search of a new tab

A few months ago my friend Eli was sharing his screen and opened a new tab on his browser. Instead of the usual inspirational quote or clock extension, commonly-visited tabs, or my personal pet peeve - recent breaking news articles and photos from disaster zones - his new tab was a map of his internet and most important documents: I was enthralled: it was the most useful thing I’ve ever seen on a new tab page, completely personalized to his needs and his perspective on the internet.

up & to the right
Show threadCris has moved serversFeb 20, 2024
@jslr MOC?
Show threadJacob Sam-La Rose
@cristhomas Map of content. Popularised in some #PKM circles, particularly amongst some #Obsidian users. Not sure how widely the terminology spread beyond that. I may have misunderstood, but I think it was essentially a table of contents for a specific domain or subject area in your notes. A way of providing an overview, spine or central trunk that could point towards related branches or clusters. 🤓
Feb 20, 2024 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadCris has moved serversFeb 20, 2024
@jslr ah ok. Thanks!
Show threadMike CosgraveFeb 25, 2024
@jslr @cristhomas A lot of the history of PKM was about efforts to work out how to do this: John Locke’s work (yes, him died 1704) was on how to index a common place book. Coleridge, the romantic poet, struggled with it as well. Jillian Hess has a good but not light book on it.