What is this? (~2024-09-08)
Updated with "Yasukazu Nishio's Scrapbox -> Yasukazu Nishio's External Brain".
The new version is "[What is this?
The version as of 2024-09-08 will remain here for documentation purposes.
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Personal Scrapbox of NISHIO Hirokazu.
What is Scrapbox?
It's a place to store and put information.
Unlike blogs I write for future me to read.
You You may read it, but you don't have to.
More fine-unit fragments than a blog.
It is more like the information card introduced by Tadao Umesao in The Art of Intellectual Production.
情報カード.icon
Many authors, not just him, have used similar mechanisms.
Once it was written on paper and placed in a private study.
So only he could see it.
This is not the final work, but to assist the person in the intellectual production of the work at the stage of creating it
What is placed on this site can be interpreted as an information card that NISHIO Hirokazu uses for his own intellectual production
I've been using it for about 5 years now and have 14,000 cards.
Scrapbox is vastly superior to paper information cards.
Knowledge Network is represented by a mechanism for [Structuring information with links
The link to an unexpected destination and Scrapbox's link suggestions are useful will help you discover pages you have written in the past.
Comparing similarities is a new way to learn.
Guide for New Scrapbox Readers.
The best way to understand Scrapbox is to use Scrapbox yourself
I've written a lot of verbal explanations here Increased skill in using tools leads to a more detailed perception of the world, so the understanding of those who don't use them doesn't lead to those who do.
As a function of Scrapbox, when you search within your own Scrapbox project, a cross search is also performed against the Scrapbox projects you have viewed, giving you the opportunity to discover other people's ideas about what you are thinking.
Since this service is focused on "growing your network of knowledge", it is best to try to grow your own network of knowledge
Meaning of the color of the links in the page
Red links are "doors that don't lead anywhere yet" and therefore not useful to click on.
Think of it as highlighting keywords.
Blue links are links to other pages in Scrapbox
This page can be EMPTY.
empty is also useful because it displays a card at the bottom of the page with a list of "pages linked to that keyword".
Example: [Philosophy of /shokai/Scrapbox]
This is a link to Scrapbox's "Other Projects" page
This example links to a page in the shokai project that is developing Scrapbox
For English reader, currently auto-translation supports only in this project. Links to other Japanese project may broken because of translation of title.
Blue underlined links are links outside Scrapbox
Meaning of the green and gray lines on the left edge of the page
They are called "telomeres." For a detailed description, see /shokai/telomere.
Unread lines (= lines that have been updated since the last visit) are green
The more recently updated, the thicker.
Click here to get the permalink to the line so you can mention it.
Q: Where do I start reading?
Option 1: Search for keywords of your interest
Option 2: Follow the links by clicking on the links that interest you at the bottom of each page.
Here's a starting point for readers: Links for Readers.
For visiter of /nishio-en is the start point for English reader.
About Quotations and Licenses.
Anything published can be cited.
We think it is a very good thing to cite, mention and develop
We believe that it is a bad idea to make it difficult to utilize information because it is not clear who inherits the rights upon the death of the copyright holder
The information on this Scrapbox is licensed under a CC-BY license upon the death of NISHIO Hirokazu
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This page is auto-translated from /nishio/これは何？(~2024-09-08) using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I'm very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.