I've been spending a bunch of time at my desk the last couple of days, beginning to organize my coursework (in the background I've been gradually uploading my book club video collection).
I rediscovered today the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a 1700+ article encyclopedia that is one of the web’s greatest resources on philosophy’s history and practice." Besides the content, Joseph DiCastro has developed a very attractive method of displaying the SEP content. FYI, see:
Actually, I was thinking more of the Obsidian graph style, like the one on the great books you posted (but I can't find it right now - Syntopicon Vault?). But, the tag idea might be easier, along with a Map of Content (of tags). So, I searched Substack and couldn't find any references to using tags (just a bunch of sites with "tag" in the name. Then I found this one on tags by you, [#Tags and the Size of My Ideas - by Dan Allosso](https://danallosso.substack.com/p/tags-and-the-size-of-my-ideas?utm_source=publication-search)
You could use the Obsidian Publish site, as I think you did before, and that would be my preference, but it requires going out of Substack, and also costs a fee for you to maintain it.
Would be great if Substack were to add such a graphical diagram of posts and interconnections.
The last link gave a 404 error, but clicking on one of the subjects opened a page with the interactive graph, which is what I was looking for. So see [A priori and a posteriori - The Syntopicon - Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md/syntopicon/A+priori+and+a+posteriori)
Example:
A priori and a posteriori
EXPERIENCE, JUDGMENT, KNOWLEDGE, REASONING, MATHEMATICS, MEMORY and IMAGINATION, SPACE, TIME
. . .
ART
BEAUTY, CHANGE, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, NATURE, PROGRESS, PRUDENCE, VIRTUE and VICE, POETRY, EDUCATION, HABIT, LABOR, LANGUAGE, LOGIC, MEDICINE, MEMORY and IMAGINATION, MIND, PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, PLEASURE and PAIN, PROGRESS, RHETORIC, SCIENCE, STATE, WAR and PEACE, WORLD
I am in a bit of a hurry today but wanted to post this before I forget: The type of content also has a lot bearing on the superiority of a given medium and the ability to translate between them. Substack vs. book issue. One thing that is radically different is precisely what I'm doing now: Interacting with the author. The book has some extraordinary advantages over online but being able to interact with a writer is incredibly compellling!
I agree. Every once in a while I get an email reporting how many people have downloaded my dissertation and a couple of other things I've uploaded to "Academia". I always wonder why people are reading my stuff, what they think about it, how it affects their own ideas, etc. Substack seems like a really good way for me to get answers to those types of questions. But I also agree that traditional books have some qualities that I wouldn't want to lose!
I rediscovered today the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a 1700+ article encyclopedia that is one of the web’s greatest resources on philosophy’s history and practice." Besides the content, Joseph DiCastro has developed a very attractive method of displaying the SEP content. FYI, see:
- [Philosophy of Economics](https://www.visualizingsep.com/#/domain/philosophy-of-economics)
- [Visualize the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Beautifully and Powerfully | LYT House Episode 6 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrz_TvdPcy4&t=1343s)
- [Joseph DiCastro: Data Engineering & Data Visualization](https://www.josephdicastrollc.com/)
Actually, I was thinking more of the Obsidian graph style, like the one on the great books you posted (but I can't find it right now - Syntopicon Vault?). But, the tag idea might be easier, along with a Map of Content (of tags). So, I searched Substack and couldn't find any references to using tags (just a bunch of sites with "tag" in the name. Then I found this one on tags by you, [#Tags and the Size of My Ideas - by Dan Allosso](https://danallosso.substack.com/p/tags-and-the-size-of-my-ideas?utm_source=publication-search)
You could use the Obsidian Publish site, as I think you did before, and that would be my preference, but it requires going out of Substack, and also costs a fee for you to maintain it.
Would be great if Substack were to add such a graphical diagram of posts and interconnections.
It might have been this post [Our Journey, Day 86 - by Dan Allosso - MakingHistory](https://danallosso.substack.com/p/our-journey-day-86?utm_source=publication-search) but not quite what I was remembering. I think maybe it was this one on Reddit - [Value of the "Graph" : r/antinet](https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/17jscyk/value_of_the_graph/) - that I was able to find by searching in my TheBrain PKM. My TB PKM also then led to this [Syntopicon Vault - by Dan Allosso - Lifelong Learners](https://lifelonglearn.substack.com/p/syntopicon-vault) and this: [Welcome to the Syntopicon! - The Syntopicon - Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md/syntopicon/Welcome+to+the+Syntopicon!).
The last link gave a 404 error, but clicking on one of the subjects opened a page with the interactive graph, which is what I was looking for. So see [A priori and a posteriori - The Syntopicon - Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md/syntopicon/A+priori+and+a+posteriori)
Example:
A priori and a posteriori
EXPERIENCE, JUDGMENT, KNOWLEDGE, REASONING, MATHEMATICS, MEMORY and IMAGINATION, SPACE, TIME
. . .
ART
BEAUTY, CHANGE, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, NATURE, PROGRESS, PRUDENCE, VIRTUE and VICE, POETRY, EDUCATION, HABIT, LABOR, LANGUAGE, LOGIC, MEDICINE, MEMORY and IMAGINATION, MIND, PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, PLEASURE and PAIN, PROGRESS, RHETORIC, SCIENCE, STATE, WAR and PEACE, WORLD
#Category
I am in a bit of a hurry today but wanted to post this before I forget: The type of content also has a lot bearing on the superiority of a given medium and the ability to translate between them. Substack vs. book issue. One thing that is radically different is precisely what I'm doing now: Interacting with the author. The book has some extraordinary advantages over online but being able to interact with a writer is incredibly compellling!
I agree. Every once in a while I get an email reporting how many people have downloaded my dissertation and a couple of other things I've uploaded to "Academia". I always wonder why people are reading my stuff, what they think about it, how it affects their own ideas, etc. Substack seems like a really good way for me to get answers to those types of questions. But I also agree that traditional books have some qualities that I wouldn't want to lose!