banyan

WIP: Tree of time.

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Warning: Banyan is more of an experiment, and is not meant for general use (at least not right now).

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Like wind of change (WOC), but using the tree model (and as a static site).

Banyan has no social element, for which you should still use WOC. Once ready I probably will begin using banyan primarily, and then cross-post¹ its content to WOC for enabling discussions²

Think of it as a more structured Zettelkasten with the notion of 'time streams' for each node, and other notions yet to be devised.

Use it

https://github.com/srid/banyan-template

Developing

bin/run

You should install the VSCode extension at ./vscode-extension for the "edit" and "new" links to work.

Notes

Fun facts:

• banyan is the first project to use Emanote as a library, so as to provide an Emanote-like experience without being tied to its specific domain area (Zettelkasten, notebook, wiki).

Design:

• Tree of nodes: a 'node' correponds to a post -- which may be micro blogpost sized or tweet sized -- that is uniquely positioned in its context as identified by its location in the tree.
• Child nodes indicate posts made over time (hence tree-of-time) under its parent, but other models may be possible.
• Each node is identified by an unique ID, that appears in the URL. We use Nano ID in place of UUID. It is short and sufficient.
• VSCode extension handles the "edit" (and "new") links (live-server only)
• File-format
  • .md files for nodes
  • Tree relationships are defined in YAML frontmatter's parent key.

Todo:

Untriaged (as issues):

• Breadcrumbs
• Wikilink support (for referencing other nodes.)
• Folding, etc.

Compensating for lack of interactive web client:

Footnotes

1. Sync if there is API. ↩

2. Until WOC gets tree model, exports & optional client-side encryption. Then there would be no reason for Banyan to exist. ↩