Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:52:33 -0700
From: Toby Schachman
Subject: Re: "Known unknowns"
See also Ken's Mapping Novels. Movie attached for the Java-challenged.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Chaim Gingold wrote:


> On Oct 31, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Glen Chiacchieri wrote:
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> The red sections are different opacities because it occurred to me that not all highlight/annotations are equal! Why not have shades of reaction?

I love this idea. I do it in real books but am peeved I can't do it digitally. I end up with embarrassing rainbows in my PDFs.

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> In fact, the yellow "what you've read so far" sections could become more opaque the more time you look at specific passages. This would create a sort of heatmap (ugh) of where you've spent your time. And of course this might be extended to everyone that's ever read a work so you could see how all readers have interacted with it.

Makes me think of a fog of war mini map. Which in a sense users annotate with their constructions and agents.