AI Summary One week to ACM Hypertext. Both of Frode’s papers were rejected (he accepts the reviews; the work wasn’t ready), so he’s there for a demo only — “Tim Berners-Lee was also just doing a demo.” ACM meeting tomorrow on official Origami Text EPUB versions of the proceedings; the committee has said yes in… Continue reading 7 Sept ’26
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August ’26 Journal Recap
July 2026 — Wrap-Up Analysis and Summary July was the hinge of the year. Everything before it was argument about what spatial text should be; everything after it has been construction, tested against real documents, real conferences and real collaborators. This wrap-up looks at July on its own terms, then at what it set in… Continue reading August ’26 Journal Recap
July ’26 Summary
1 Sept Transcript
Date: 1 September 2026 Participants: Frode Hegland, Gabo Beaumont, Eric (Seed) Editing notes: filler, false starts, cross-talk and interruptions (doorbells, laundry, connection issues) have been removed. Transcription errors have been corrected: “CT”, “see”, “seed” → Seed; “fraud” → Frode; “Lord”, “cloud”, “blood” → Claude; “hyperthermia” → hypermedia; “Damon” → daemon; “our gummy text” → Origami Text. Speech has… Continue reading 1 Sept Transcript
1 September ’26
AI Analysis What was actually agreed The core goal crystallised as: a participant reading a paper in Origami Text during a session at Hypertext 2026 makes a comment tied to a specific paragraph, and it appears live for others in the room, and in Seed. Eric steered this toward comment syncing specifically, since Seed’s annotations are baked… Continue reading 1 September ’26
31 Aug ’26
AI: Summary This session opened from a deliberately simple premise: AI is an external entity. When code is written with an AI in Xcode, the human is the designer or director, not the coder — and the same holds for knowledge work, where whatever the AI learns, writes, or researches goes into its mind, not ours.… Continue reading 31 Aug ’26
24 August ’26
AI: Summary This session marked a shift from talking about tools to distributing them: the meeting opened with the group downloading and running a fresh macOS build of Origami Text, wrestling with Gatekeeper warnings, and confirming it launches — the first time the community has held the working software in hand together. Frode framed the context:… Continue reading 24 August ’26
17 August ’26
Connecting. Image + Text We will start today with the perspective that knowledge is, at least to a large extent, about connections. It follows therefore that the substrates we use to hold our knowledge and the tools we use to interact with our knowledge extend connections. AI Summary Frode Hegland (host), Eric Rangell, Peter Dimitrios,… Continue reading 17 August ’26
11 Aug ’26
AI summary (Claude Fable) AI: Summary The 11 August 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Brandel Zachernuk (briefly, before a standing meeting), Tom Haymes, Benja Gooder, Astral_Druid, and Heiner Benking (listening in from a train). What began as a technical question — can the HTML model element live inside an… Continue reading 11 Aug ’26
May ’26 Journal Recap
May was the month the Lab stopped asking what spatial text might be and started testing what it is — against a demanding user, a demanding document, and the limits of the words we inherited from print. The month opened with a designer’s hands on the actual software and closed with the discovery that the… Continue reading May ’26 Journal Recap