This work was written Jan-Apr 2020 for the Convivial Computing Salon.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Cameron Burgess, Weiwei Hsu, Wode 'Nimo' Ni, Katherine Ye, Eli Parra, Gray Crawford, Jonathan Skjøtt, Jonathan Edwards, Yoshiki Schmitz. And many more.

Further Reading

• Spatial Software by John Palmer
• Peripheral Vision Thread by Andy Matuschak
• Conversation App Design by Malcolm Ocean
• Literary Machines by Ted Nelson
• Part of Speech: a conversational interface for writing by Katherine Ye and J. Juang
• Roam/Slack Killer by Jeff Tang
• What is conversation? by Dubberly & Pangaro
• The Codex: An Atlas of Relations by Iian Neill
• muze.nyc
• Quill chat
• Roam Research
• Workflowy
• Knovigator
• Babylon House
• Kialo
• Twist
• Spectrum Chat
• Zulip
• Tiddlywiki
• Wikum
• Treesheets by Wouter Van Oortmerssen
• Google Wave (RIP)
• The Language of Twitter by Yoshiki Schmitz
• 'creativity' by Alex Norris
• Word Balloons by John Peña
• Chat Disentanglement by Mehri & Carenini
• Nonlinear Conversational Medium by Gray Crawford, Scott Dombkowski
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
• Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
• The shape of a listener by James Somers
• What Realistic Film Dialogue Sounds Like by Nerdwriter1
• Napkin by Eli Parra
• Messy Thought, Neat Thought by May-Li Khoe
• PROCESS: desire paths in creative interfaces by Katherine Ye, with Angela Zhou and Raymond Zhong
• Conversation Theory: applications in education and epistemology by Gordon Pask
• Groves: a third-party relational are.na experience by Devin Halladay