[wingerlang]

I still don’t understand what it’s for. You think things then write about things makes no sense as an explanation to me. The fact that word/excel kinda works but not really also doesn’t help.

Maybe make a video where you write something in the boxes and explain why they go where they go.

[Zeminary]

Here's my guiding philosophy (on Twitter).

Zeminary to me is supposed to be an Ideamusicsheet.

I didn't want to call it that in my post cause that just ... sounds a bit kooky.

https://twitter.com/Zeminary/status/1432571606744899587

Zeminary is more for artists than technologists.

Artists are very concerned with relationships of meaning and time.

When I write, I really only have one main line of thought, but to grasp what that thought means, I have to decompose it. I need to write to the side, to show that at this point in time, this and other thoughts arise. I don't want just the final line, I want to see all the lines that make up that line.

That's overkill for alot of usecases, but necessary for mine.

I also do alot of annotations of dense philosophical works. I have to seriously grasp them because I want my art to cohere.

I guess you could say Zeminary is a metathinking app. Or a chordal or a contrapuntal thinking app. It makes Ideamusic more deliberate.

You can do the same work in other places, but Zeminary makes it alot easier for me. For example, writing in one place doesn't cause everything else to shift around. Images and extra context local to a specific grid can be hidden in that grid (scrollable). The soft shadows help to "bleed" ideas. You can unborder grids to separate context. The bareness and the lack of distracting UI helps me to focus. Movable mindmaps are easier to pull off. There's marks, there's multipoint comments. There's alot of subtle touches. Etc. I'll be adding more feature layers in the future.

One of my future art projects is to write a 4096 part work based on the King Wen Sequence. 64 x 64 = 4096. It'll be very dense. I'm making Zeminary Tensor for that.

Zeminary Tensors might even become an app of choice for anyone looking to author & publish large textworks.

And progressive summarization / expansion / composition.

And analogical thinking.

[wingerlang]

> I need to write to the side, to show that at this point in time, this and other thoughts arise.

So it's a non linear writing app.

[Zeminary]

Well, it's still linear, but with more dimensions. It thinks of writing as a progression of chords rather than as a progression of arpeggiations.

EDIT: Actually, no you're right. It's nonlinear.

[tunesmith]

What's an ideamusicsheet? What's ideamusic?

[Zeminary]

It's just an analogy of music. Music is a succession of sounds. Ideamusic is a succession of ideas. Here's the guiding philosophy of Zeminary if you don't have a Twitter.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GECsGXoAEU3l6?format=png&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GEQbGWUAAmZJ5?format=png&name=...

It's kinda "out there" tbh.

[captn3m0]

A short video or screenshot of the old workflow in Execel vs how it improves here would be nice as well.

Not having the prior context of “excel for writers”, makes the new context “better excel for writers” impossible to get.

[Zeminary]

I'll definitely make a comparison video or post.

COPYPASTE: A video would take a really long time. I'll make one when I'm done fixing everything. One thing you could try right now is making a 10x10 grid, then clearing the borders of the 2nd column from the left. Everything on the right would be inspiration or raw material. The leftmost column would be the actual draft.