Nodessy Inspiration:

The development of this tool has come from a broad set of inspirations. 

Philosophy

• Ted Nelson’s Xandau 

  • non-linearity

  • Trails

  • Node graph

  • Transclusion

  • Copyright

• Vannevar Bush’s Memex

  • Human centric, human-authored knowledge management tool for the “modern scientist” or any other person attached enough to their own thoughts to find a tool like this worthwhile

• an “Anti” v0

  • I wanted this tool to make humans like John Henry in the face of UI building automation. 

  • An easy-to-use tool that enables humans to devise content-driven UIs more quickly (or just as quickly, or even slightly less quickly) than AI agents.

Design Cues

• Confluence

  • Confluence’s WYSIWYG is perfect

• Notion + Super

  • A Knowledge management system with Website-builder functionality

• Tana

  • Tana does an insanely good job at transclusion