🔪✅⬇️ (Annotations models)

Notes

• Killing Markdown

• GML (written in1969), an IBM project to write text into files for computers to display in a better formatted style

• GML gave birth to SGML, which gave birth to HTML and XML

• “Our tools were based on presumptions that simply were not true anymore”

• "Content is not hierarchical"

• Can we come up with a better mental model for thinking about content?

• We can write code that does this but it's not reproducible.

• Example of manually edited document: The "content" is the printed material and the notes taken over in pen fit in … where?

• JSON, content, annotations: “Contents” distinct from “annotations” in JSON format.

  • Here’s a simplified version:

{
    contents: “Main text document goes here etc etc etc”,
    annotations: [
        { position: 4, text: “Change this” }
        { position: 12, text: “I like this” }
    ]
}

• Theoretically possible for transcript/audio data too.

  Not a standard format – ”I’m allergic to standards”

  Even the format Blaine showed on screen is “massively simplified”