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  • Random from X.
  • Oracles: resurface notes with targeted prompts. "How does this change my understanding? What does this disconfirm? What questions are triggered by this? Who could answer this?" etc. Think Oblique Strategies, but a bit smarter, algorithmic.
  • Related links: Suggest links to related notes in your notebook and extended network.
  • Concept collider: juxtapose notes by semantic similarity, sparking new ideas. Source from your notebook and extended network. Think Twemex highlights, where your notes are the seed.
  • Emergent themes: surface well-connected ideas with many backlinks.
  • Spaced repetition: boring to me, but people love it.
  • Generative writing prompts (Popular community plugins in the Obsidian community hack together a basic version of this https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rfc-oblique-strategies-writing-prompts-reflection-creators-block/9997)
  • ...and perhaps a Twitter Geist that handles bridging Twitter content to your Subconscious feed.

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  • New note suggestion (The Star)
  • Suggested links (Constellation)
  • Recent
    • Notes you've edited/returned to, weighted frecency
    • 3-5 notes related to a note you edited recently (query for notes containing any links in common with this note)
  • Random note (The Wheel of Fortune)
  • Random /quote (Sage)
  • Prompt bot randomly or algorithmically reposts notes tagged /prompt or /oblique (Oracle)
  • Prompt/Zettelkasten: note elaboration prompts (Farmer)
  • Prompt/project: Targeted prompts for /project (Oracle)
  • Targeted prompts for /pattern (Magician)
  • Concept collider: combine two random ideas ask "in what ways might these be connected?" (Fool)
    • Variation: combine two random /pattern
  • Combine /pattern and /project, or /gimmick and /project and ask "in what ways might this apply?"
  • Combine /prompt and /project (Oracle)
  • Combine /reference and /project and ask "in what ways might this apply?" (Farmer)
  • Emergent themes: well-connected notes with many backlinks (Librarian)
  • Resurface drafts (see identifying drafts) (Librarian?)
  • Nature analogy prompts (Naturalist)
  • Bag of words / free-association. Curate a grammar of hundreds of evocative words. Grab a random note, and a dozen random words. Provocation to draw free-associations between.

Possible Geists

  • New Note Suggestion: suggested notes to create, by sourcing search history and links to pages that don't exist yet.
  • Link suggestions: suggest links to add to note, based on union of links within notes that link to this note, or that this note links to.
  • New connections: list recently edited, along with links
  • Recent entry with related slugs underneath
  • Emergent themes: well-connected notes with many backlinks
    • Heatmap: emergent themes for this week/month
    • New emergent themes
    • What other ideas does this remind me of?
  • Connections: serve up two related or random notes. Ask,
    • How might these be related?
    • Are they related through a third thing?
  • /pattern
    • Combine /pattern with /project and ask "how might this pattern apply?"
    • Combine /pattern with /pattern and ask "how might these be connected?"
  • /kickoff prompts: pull a random /kickoff and ask...
  • Concept collider
    • Randomly or algorithmically combines notes tagged with /idea
    • Posts with semantic similarity, either through slashlink union, or TF-IDF
  • Question geist
  • Tarot Geist: take inspiration from tarot spreads, and draw random notes or prompts, placing them within a template. Interpret each idea according to its position. See tarot.
    • Basic spread
      • Environment: external forces surrounding your idea. Other ideas, issues, people.
      • Mirror: sources within you.
      • Shadow: what may be hidden from you.
      • Caution: something to watch out for
      • Power: what you need to do
    • Past, present, future
    • Mind, body, spirit
    • Background, problem, advice
  • The Next Step Geist: The next step: #random(/prompt)#
  • Concept generator
    • Takes lines from a specific note and mashes them up at random
    • Alternate: support generative grammar expansion, expand a JSON file.
  • Quote bot randomly or algorithmically reposts notes tagged /quote
  • Prompt bot randomly or algorithmically reposts notes tagged /prompt
    • Oblique Strategies, original, custom
    • Starting a project prompts
    • Quantified self prompts
    • Journal/personal development prompts
      • "What did I do today that aligned with who I want to become?"
      • "What was meaningful?"
  • Project prompt bot
    • Take one /prompt and one /project, combine them, ask "how might this apply?"
  • Prompt links ("feeling... stuck? confused? etc")
    • Links off to specific prompts for that state of mind
  • Resurface drafts: notes without links/backlinks
  • prompt/zettelkasten note elaboration
  • Find notes with quote blocks
    • Prompt to rewrite in own words / summarize key points
    • Prompt to elaborate
    • Prompt to connect to other notes
  • Sidequests: surface pre-programmed gamification sidequests, like "connect two notes", "write down an idea", "accomplishments", etc
  • Saved searches / knowledge miners
  • Learning goals
    • Write them down to have Subconscious surface reminders and related
  • Story prompt generator
  • Futures generator
  • Startup generator
  • Note punchcard (like git commit punchcard)
  • Page counts, connection counts, giving you a sense of progress
  • Time capsule: on this day
    • Repost notes from 6m, 1y, 3y, 5y
    • Goal: surprise, keeping ideas alive
  • CRM: surface reminders about notes tagged /people

Basic signals to work with

subconscious/signals

Special link types

Subconscious/Special-Links

Geist ideas

  • "Draw again". In Tarot, you can draw an additional card when you need further clarification. What if we let users draw another provocation for a specific note?
    • Imagine a "draw" button next to the "open/link/remix" primary actions. When you click it, it generates an additional story by this same Geist, using this same context. The story is placed into the feed below the story you're looking at.
  • Storylets (see Max Kreminski https://youtu.be/66O6WDcT8KY?t=264). In Reigns, some actions "deal" several cards on to the top of the deck. You can think of them as storylets, little self-standing story arcs embedded in a larger story arc. What if Geists could generate storylets?
    • Imagine a Geist that looks at recently edited note and generates a storylet made up of 3-5 notes which are related.
    • Imagine a Geist that generates a series of prompts or instructions w/r/t a specific note.
    • Could this be implemented through the Subtext the Geist generates?
    • Do we want a "compound" story type?

Geist personas

  • Jungian Archetypes
    • Caregiver (service, provide structure)
    • Ruler (control, provide structure)
    • Artist (innovation, provide structure)
    • Innocent (safety, spiritual)
    • Sage (knowledge, spiritual)
    • Explorer (freedom, spiritual)
    • Outlaw (liberation, leave a mark)
    • Magician (power, leave a mark)
    • Hero (mastery, leave a mark)
    • Lover (intimacy, connection)
    • Jester (fun, connection)
  • Tarot arcana
    • The Fool
    • The Magician
    • The High Priestess
    • The Empress
    • The Emperor
    • The World
    • Judgement
    • The Sun
    • The Moon
    • The Star
    • The Tower
    • Temperance
    • Death
    • The Hanged Man
    • Justice
    • The Wheel of Fortune
    • The Hermit
    • Strength
    • The Chariot
    • The Lovers
    • The Hierophant
  • My masks
    • The Anarchist
    • The Institutionalist
    • The Adventurer
    • The Craftsman
    • The Architect
    • The Gardener
    • The Kindergartener
    • The Butterfly Collector
    • The Hacker
    • The Catalyst
  • Ian Cheng, Emissary's Guide to Worlding
    • The Hacker (steering by gut, seeking surprise)
    • The Cartoonist (steering by gut, seeking home)
    • The Director (steering by stories, seeking home)
    • The Emissary (steering by stories, seeking suprise)
  • Project phases (unsorted)
    • Diverge
    • Converge
    • Starting
    • Playing
    • Revealing
    • Experimenting
    • Forming
    • Mapping
    • Prototyping
    • Landing
  • "The lens of...". Design lenses and provocations.
  • Rosenman, Gero, 1993 "Creativity in design using a design prototype approach" in "Modeling Creativity and Knowledge-based Creative Design", ed. J.S. Gero, M.L. Maher, 119-148, ISBN 9781138976238
    • Combination
    • Mutation
    • Analogy
    • First principles
    • Emergence
  • Robinson Eaton
    • Doing
      • Motivated by productivity
      • Purpose: getting something done
      • Example: organize my herbs and spices.
    • Adapting
      • Motivated by appropriation
      • Purpose: making things my own
      • Example: embellishing a recipe.
    • Making
      • Motivated by asserting my ability or skill.
      • Purpose: make it with my own hands.
      • Example: cooking recipe with technique.
    • Creating
      • Motivated by curiosity.
      • Purpose: express my ability.
      • Example: dreaming up a new dish.

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