%% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] [[linking]] [[Zettelkasten]] [[writing technologies]] [[Hypertext]] %% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] - [[A Brief History of Linked Writing]] - [[Analogue Linking]] - [[Zettelkasten]] - [[Zettelkasten Linking]] - **[[Digital Linking (Hypertext)]]** - [[Notetaking Software (PKMs)]] # Digital Linking (Hypertext) - HTTP hypertext protocols enable the use of semantic links to connect notes in ways that can't be reproduced practically in analogue media. - Hyperlinks hide the alphanumerical identifier or URI of a file from the user by associating that static ID with a name that can be used to reference the file directly. When you click a hypertext link, your computer reads the URI from the file name and then navigates to the file with that URI, from which it reads the linked file's name. - So hypertext works by assigning each text file a static ID and correlates to a variable name defined by the user. - Hyperlinks allow a text to relate itself to other texts through its own semantic content, so that a text constructs the structure into which it is organized in conjunction with other texts, rather than external organizational systems like folders. - Metadata hyperlinks are peripheral parts of the semantic content of a text while inline hyperlinks are central parts. - While most if not all the features of linked notetaking programs may be replicated in analogue forms, digitization makes these features practical and thereby transforms the user experience of note taking, i.e. the process of writing itself. ## References - Barnet 2019, "Hypertext before the Web" - Bolter 2001, *Writing Space - Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print* - Dougherty & O'Donnell 2015, "Web Writing - Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning" - Helmond 2019, "A Historiography of the Hyperlink" - Hicks 2019, "Hypertext and Hypermedia Writing" - Kitromili, Jordan, & Millard 2020, "What Authors Think about Hypertext Authoring" - Landow 1991, *Hypertext - The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology* - Landow 2006, *Hypertext 3.0 - Critical Theory and New Media in An Era of Globalization* - Nelson 1965, "A File Structure for The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate" - Poirier 2019, "Making the Web Meaningful - A History of Web Semantics" - Vandendorpe 2009, *From Papyrus to Hypertext* - Whitehead 2000, "Hyper-Terms for Hypertext" - Zimmer 2009, "Hyperlinks and The Structuring of Knowledge from the Encyclopédie to Web 2.0"