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I've always wanted to build an infinite canvas idea to try it out, but whenever I've used implementations of it (such as in the Muse app), it just feels wrong. It feels like a beautiful way to interact with essentially fractal information, but in practice it doesn't quite work to me.

I agree with you that I don't think it maps well to the mental model of the brain. Seeing the youtube video link in the sibling comment, when the user is completely zoomed out and can see everything, I just feel overwhelmed looking at it all. Maybe it's the nature of the boxes having different scales that you can't compare them as easily to each other compared to just a regular canvas where things just place in two dimensions. Each time you zoom into a canvas, the transition causes a lost sense of place and space, akin to walking into a doorway to a room and wondering why you walked there to begin with.