Hyperlinks in Handwriting
Oh, that's not that I thought the title meant!<p>Imagine if you could hyperlink as you handwrote notes, fluidly with the motion or gesture of the pen. As with text editors like emacs or *vim, you'd create new modes of thinking as you interact with a machine at the speed of thought, with the underpinning physical motions being too fast and too easy for conscious attention. Make wormholes from one part of the writing surface to a distant one, recording connections, asides, without conscious effort. No more than you expend on the shapes of letters, or the layout of QWERTY.<p>Instead, we're kind of stuck on the UX of "ordered sequence of rectangles", with some usability hacks to mitigate the severe limitations of this skeuomorphism.<p>Surely there must be some astounding low-hanging fruit here, in the UX of epaper handwriting as a tool of exploratory thought.