Quick report!
I find that writing & sketching in a big space hugely helps me organize my thoughts and think through a topic. Sometimes I use poster-sized paper or whiteboards for this. But I've been discouraged by the way that these sheets of paper become scattered and hard to manage. I don't trust that I'll be able to easily bring back old sketches and build off of previous thoughts. (Also, whiteboards have to be erased from time to time, which sucks.)
Just for context, here's an example of the kind of sketches I'm talking about:
I decided to use my Memex Jam time thinking through this problem. Progress was slow. At first, I was just stuck. So I took out a big sheet of paper to help myself think:
That helped a lot! I imagined all my sketches living in a single, flexibly organized 2D space, with just enough structure imposed to overcome the limitations of real space. For instance: a box containing notes on a single topic could resize to fit new thoughts, automatically pushing other boxes to make room. And boxes could be tagged with (or detect) their topic and editing/viewing dates, so connections and trails could be traced through the landscape.
However, I still didn't get to any actual prototyping. I think part of the trouble was that the vision forming in my head was based around screen-based techniques which were harder to prototype AND uncomfortably dissonant with the vision we've been discussing for Reality Kit.
I got a bit of feedback from Toby which I now choose to interpret as pushing me toward divergent approaches to the problem, which might better take advantage of our Reality-Kit sensibilities. At the time, I was still attached to my slippy-map/box concept. But I think I would like to revisit this domain sometime, with a more open mind and some construction paper. :)
(Thanks everyone for another energetic jam!)