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[eirias]

I have been hard at work on making a wiki of my prelim reading so that my thoughts can all go in one place, which will be very helpful come exam time. I haven't totally kept it up to date, but the list of things I haven't read really is still much longer than the list of things I have read (*sigh*). Still, they're neat tools, and take much less mucking than an ordinary webpage.

I feel vaguely nerdy, in a Johnny-come-lately way.

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[roamin-umpire.livejournal.com]

No question that a visual wiki could be done if the images were there. The real catch is getting the images in one's head into digital format in a remotely timely manner.

As for "threads," it's actually a reference to a friend's homegrown role-playing game, in which the concept space of pretty much the entire world is contained in threads, which you can follow or trace back to see the story of a particular object/person/abstract concept, look for connections to other threads, drill down from general to specific and vice versa, etc. The really fun part was wiring one of these directly into reality, at which point you get a copy of the subject of that thread, as it applies to your situation. (How much/little you get was up to the maniacal GM.)

I'm not sure anyone really quite thinks like this. But thinking about it some more, the structure is ideally suited to some sort of hyperlink system. Again, the only catch is getting all of the information into text format.