Very nice. The site is down at the moment, but I watched the video tour and liked what I saw.
I built a prototype of something vaguely similar a few years ago that replicated a desk with papers stacked in piles. No searching, no sorting, no tagging--just typing on notes, dragging them into stacks, and a paintbrush to draw on the deck. This lets you leverage the brain's natural tendency to associate locations with ideas, like a memory palace. Want that recipe from a few weeks ago? You remember it was in a pile by a blue house you drew.
I see a similar philosophy here, expanded with more features and a larger scope. It's also great seeing a notes/organization system that isn't the same stupid three panels, tags on the left, etc.
Looking forward to trying it out when the site returns. Thanks for sharing!
> Dungeons & Dragons with less fighting and more trolley problem
Intrigued! I'm a lapsed GM, largely because of the time commitment required to run a campaign, but this got my attention. Looks like there's enough setting and rules to spur games onward but not enough to constrain or overwhelm.
Registered an account and will look into it in more detail tomorrow!
Reason never dictates we assume a negative because a positive is unprovable. We may consider a negative, but we would need evidence of it before believing the claim.
Individuals funding things like this actually seems like a valid path forward. Look at other industries where the same thing is happening. When appeasing shareholders or advertisers isn't priority one, it's easier to maintain quality and value.
I'm a writer myself, and somehow I've managed to maintain a steady freelance career for 15+ years. This article hits uncomfortably close to home. The low pay, the uncertainty, the bending of your ethics to pay rent. There are upsides, of course, including the fact that I've been a remote worker for most of my adult life, but there are days when I have to convince myself the pros outweigh the cons.
The push towards clickbait makes it easier for gig writers to pick up work, while the lower cost of hiring them means publications can create more of it. Journalism does indeed suffer from this cycle, but how do we break it? I have a few ideas from my own time contributing to this monster, but implementing them isn't easy, nor guaranteed.
Like several in the comments, I tried the web dev route, learned to code, etc. It didn't take, it just wasn't satisfying, and I was competing with people who lived and breathed this stuff. Maybe if I had stuck with it for a few more years I would learn to like it, but I just felt like I was purposefully ignoring what I enjoyed.
I would love to toss my current mid-grade writing contracts and get back into real investigative journalism. Depth of reporting, of storytelling, is sorely needed. But doing that means dedicating more time than the gig economy allows. Hopping off the hamster wheel means falling ungraciously to the floor. Writing rarely provides a financial safety net.
I'm sure other industries suffer somewhat from the gig economy, and I'm sure they gain from it as well. I don't think it's going away, but we do need to find a way to save and promote quality as we fight for quantity.
I built a prototype of something vaguely similar a few years ago that replicated a desk with papers stacked in piles. No searching, no sorting, no tagging--just typing on notes, dragging them into stacks, and a paintbrush to draw on the deck. This lets you leverage the brain's natural tendency to associate locations with ideas, like a memory palace. Want that recipe from a few weeks ago? You remember it was in a pile by a blue house you drew.
I see a similar philosophy here, expanded with more features and a larger scope. It's also great seeing a notes/organization system that isn't the same stupid three panels, tags on the left, etc.
Looking forward to trying it out when the site returns. Thanks for sharing!