Fractality of Software Tools
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Notion, Roam, Muse, file systems feel "fractal":
- blocks within blocks in Notion
- boards within boards in Muse
- bullet points within bullet points Roam
- folders within folders in file system
- hash-maps are also fractal
- Figma is not fractal - tabs, canvases and layers are all different things, and can't be nested ad infinitum
- fractal tools seem to give more freedom, but at a cost - how to Orient Myself in these possibly infinite structures (also mentioned in Places in Software)
- more on spatial software: Fractality of Software Tools, Places in Software
- and in more general, attempts at UIs with more "Fractality"
- the former (the Smalltalk-like approach), is related to the ideas of Fractality of Software Tools - everything is objects within objects (or functions within functions in Lisp-land), and when you can change how they behave, you can make your own tools in the tool
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