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Have there been any notable re-implementations of this, post-PARC (i.e. with a nearly identical visual appearance and functionality)? [a]
Early versions of
Microsoft Windows had a basic note card (not ‘Notepad’) application, but that only supported stacks of cards, not inter-card linking, and it appears to have disappeared when
Windows 95 was released [b]
Hypercard was a more graphically-focused and complicated tool, but Hypercard and later clones was more focused on creating mini-applications or content for people to view, rather than managing continuously-editable user-created data sets.
HTML,
MediaWiki,
Evernote,
OneNote,
Obsidian, etc. allow linking various documents together, but they generally only show one document at a time (and only recently did some of them start to offer any visualization of the connections between documents).
Sadly, there’s no obvious sources of money to advertise such a thing even if it did exist, since by definition it would be long out of patent…
Footnotes:
^(sort of like a visual Wiki … the C2 wiki has some similarities)
^It was likely a
16-bit application, and/or was it was licensed by Microsoft from a 3rd party and that license was not renewed.
@
Jim Grisham: Not exactly. However, there is an interesting structural comparison between NoteCards and other
personal knowledge base software (up to 2005) in:
See especially section V. Data models: A. Structural frameworks: b. Graph, where there is a table comparing NoteCards with other graph-based knowledge tools. I would guess that the software application in that table that comes closest to NoteCards while still being in wide use today is PersonalBrain, now called
TheBrain: although the user interface is different, it shares the emphasis on note types and link types found in NoteCards.
For Obsidian (which you mentioned above), the
Obsidian Hover Editor plugin provides some ability to view multiple documents at a time like NoteCards, and of course in any application like Obsidian where the "note cards" are simply files in the file system, one can always open as many files as one wishes at once in any external editor that has multiple windows. Unlike NoteCards, one would have to implement one's own note types and link types in Obsidian. The ability to customize Obsidian (and some of its competitors) is reminiscent of the ability to customize NoteCards.
Biogeographist (
talk) 03:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)reply
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
computers,
computing, and
information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Have there been any notable re-implementations of this, post-PARC (i.e. with a nearly identical visual appearance and functionality)? [a]
Early versions of
Microsoft Windows had a basic note card (not ‘Notepad’) application, but that only supported stacks of cards, not inter-card linking, and it appears to have disappeared when
Windows 95 was released [b]
Hypercard was a more graphically-focused and complicated tool, but Hypercard and later clones was more focused on creating mini-applications or content for people to view, rather than managing continuously-editable user-created data sets.
HTML,
MediaWiki,
Evernote,
OneNote,
Obsidian, etc. allow linking various documents together, but they generally only show one document at a time (and only recently did some of them start to offer any visualization of the connections between documents).
Sadly, there’s no obvious sources of money to advertise such a thing even if it did exist, since by definition it would be long out of patent…
Footnotes:
^(sort of like a visual Wiki … the C2 wiki has some similarities)
^It was likely a
16-bit application, and/or was it was licensed by Microsoft from a 3rd party and that license was not renewed.
@
Jim Grisham: Not exactly. However, there is an interesting structural comparison between NoteCards and other
personal knowledge base software (up to 2005) in:
See especially section V. Data models: A. Structural frameworks: b. Graph, where there is a table comparing NoteCards with other graph-based knowledge tools. I would guess that the software application in that table that comes closest to NoteCards while still being in wide use today is PersonalBrain, now called
TheBrain: although the user interface is different, it shares the emphasis on note types and link types found in NoteCards.
For Obsidian (which you mentioned above), the
Obsidian Hover Editor plugin provides some ability to view multiple documents at a time like NoteCards, and of course in any application like Obsidian where the "note cards" are simply files in the file system, one can always open as many files as one wishes at once in any external editor that has multiple windows. Unlike NoteCards, one would have to implement one's own note types and link types in Obsidian. The ability to customize Obsidian (and some of its competitors) is reminiscent of the ability to customize NoteCards.
Biogeographist (
talk) 03:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)reply