Loci: a landscape for your notes
A post on r/secondbrain, Maps organize information through landscapes — why? , stopped me for a minute. It brought back Moonwalking with Einstein , Joshua Foer's year with competitive memorizers, and the old trick at the center of it: put each thing you want to remember in a place, then walk the places. The Romans called the places loci . I have a few thousand notes, clippings and links. I can search them when I remember a word. I cannot walk them. So I built a landscape for them and called it Loci . Here is the idea in twenty notes. I imported twenty short Markdown files with tags and [[wikilinks]] . They became five hills. I clicked one note, and then I orbited the terrain. What a hill is Every note is a point. Notes that mean the same thing sit near each other. Groups of near notes become regions, and each region is a hill. The hill with the most notes is the tallest and the widest. Height is a count, not a judgment. A tall hill means you wrote a lot about that topic, no...