- [[engelbart, douglas|Doug Engelbart]] called for a “world wide open hyperdocument system framework” as part of a larger strategy for improving “society’s IQ”. **Open** refers to the system being system agnostic; **document** refers to any media type (text, graphic, video, etc); and hyper **refers** to the system being dynamic, interactive, and with “fine-grained linkability”. - Essential elements in of the OHS framework include: - The ability to **zoom in and out of a structure** with each “node” having its own unique ID and timestamp. Users should be able to filter by content and metadata, and the history of an object / structure should be maintained in the document. - The ability to **hyperlink or navigate to any object**, which has a unique date, time, and author for when it is created or modified. - The same features being accessible whether you are editing or browsing. - Transclusion of any object or group of objects. - This is incredibly close to my ideas around [[a new way to web 1]], with a few exceptions: - OHS seems to rely specifically on hierarchal documents; zooming in and out seems to refer to accessing different levels of an *outline*. This feels limiting, although tagging may allow for more free-form non-linear thinking (see [[{10} hierarchy vs network in knowledge management]]). - It also seems to primarily be interested in knowledge management / learning, while I’m looking for something more holistic — a more complete approach to managing our digital identities. - First read about this concept in Karlsson’s [[Karlsson, Henrick - 2022 - Reader-generated Essays|piece]] on [[{6.6} reader-generated essays as a use-case for AI]] and it’s super exciting. Makes me feel like I might be on the right — or at least a *possible* — track. - [[2025-02-17]] just noticed that you can now “copy link to highlight”, at least in vivaldi, which is close to hyperlinking to any object!