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Generative Writing in Core and Contextual Environments We looked at generative writing, where writing does not just record pre-formed thoughts but generates new understanding through the act of writing itself, in Core & Contextual environments. AI: Summary This session wove together three interconnected threads: the design philosophy behind generative writing tools (specifically Author), the emerging framework… Continue reading 13 April 2026

AI: Summary March 2026 was a month of deepening conceptual and practical work around a single core question: what does it mean to work with knowledge in space, and how do we move knowledge between flat, framed interfaces and XR environments without simply transplanting one medium’s habits into another? The community explored this through hands-on… Continue reading March Journal recap

AI: Resources Mentioned Zettelkasten (note-taking methodology) — introduced by Jonathan Finn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten Zettlr (Zettelkasten desktop app) — mentioned by Jonathan Finn and shared by Peter Wasilko: https://www.zettlr.com HyperTalk (programming language of HyperCard) — shared by Peter Dimitrios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk Manex (app) — shared by Peter Wasilko: https://manex.app Pie menu — referenced by Peter Dimitrios and linked by Brandel Zachernuk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu Sparklines patent (Microsoft) — surfaced by Brandel Zachernuk after Jonathan Finn recalled Edward Tufte had patented them: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090282325A1/en… Continue reading 6 April Resources

[M — INTRO] We’ve been calling them pages but they’re not pages at all When you scroll through the content you are reading a scroll The boundary dissolves, the document loses its edge Brandel named it clean — integrity’s the thing on the ledge[F — INTRO] A true page holds its shape, what’s inside it… Continue reading April 6 song lyrics

Co-authored by Frode Hegland and Clause.ai based on the first 3 months transcripts, on what working in XR might be. The Long Freeze To understand what is new, we have to understand what we have been living with. Writing changed our species by freezing thought — fixing it outside the human body so it could persist across… Continue reading Beyond Reading & Writing

[VERSE 1 — MALE] They’ve been saying text is dying since the day the web was born Then AI arrived and everyone is reading more than before So the question isn’t whether text survives the spatial age The question’s how you think with it — how you build the page Frode Hegland’s in Shanghai, drafting… Continue reading 30 March Lyrics

April Project : Beyond Reading & Writing in XR. Working in XR is not really reading or writing in the traditional sense, it is ‘born digital’ in an entirely new dimension. We look at addressing what this might mean.  A brief introduction based on 2026 session transcripts so far: Beyond Reading & Writing. We have… Continue reading April 6th 2026

AI: Summary This session brought together the Future Text Lab community to examine the cognitive science underpinning spatial text interfaces and to develop a practical design philosophy for combining traditional framed displays with XR nodal environments — specifically through Apple Vision Pro and the in-development Author application. The discussion moved from reading science and dual visual processing through to hands-on questions of what… Continue reading 30 March 2026

VERSE 1 — Female Spatial knowledge maps in Vision Pro — that’s where we began, Frode built a tool in Author where you walk through what you scan. Select a concept, find its links, distribute it in space, Not reading, not just writing — it’s a whole different place. Tom photographed his bookshelves, six-fifty titles strong, Fed them into Claude and Gemini, been… Continue reading 23 March 2026 Lyrics

Tom Haymes: Good afternoon. You’re miming? Frode Hegland: It’s still kind of a boxy sound, isn’t it? Tom Haymes: Are you getting a little bit of room echo? Frode Hegland: Let me try this microphone. Tom Haymes: I think there’s a setting on Zoom in the audio. It’s pretty sophisticated. That will take care of… Continue reading 23 March 2026 — Clean Transcript