Textmap - an old idea

Everything2 style graph. Ability to add nodes and edges. Should technically be called Textgraph but Textmap is snappier, hehe.

nodes: id, name, body, author, date
edges: id, key, node

Nodes are the content, edges are the links. Edges automatically detected and inserted into nodes on display.

Difference from everything2 is that there is more than one graph. The point is not to try and link everything together in one mass-mess, but to create interactive text things easily. Example: interactive stories would use highly specific edges (could edge key be a regex? Here is a use for the Data Munging Eugenics system (which needs a recursive acronym). The edges in a documentation textmap would be much more vague.

On reflection, this is just a simplified web, like the www, so I guess it’s of limited use.