Author Scott Rosenberg shared his workflowy outline used to prepare a thoughtful article

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Posted by yosemite
May 18, 2015 at 07:57 PM

Scott Rosenberg wrote a good article called either “Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?” or “The Failed Promise of Deep Links” and publicly shared the workflowy outline he used to prepare the article. The article is good and the outline is worth looking through as well if you’re interested in these topics:

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-failed-promise-of-deep-links-aa307b3abaa5

https://workflowy.com/s/HfTmnAeOe3

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 20, 2015 at 06:29 PM

Thanks for the reference - both very interesting.

Posted by Jan S.
May 20, 2015 at 08:10 PM

I took a look at it and I have to say that Jerry Michalski’s Brain isn’t impressive at all. It is just a bunch of meaningless (mostly wikipedia) links. He doesn’t use most features of TheBrain. There aren’t even notes in it – it’s barely hypertextual.

But those deep links really seem to solve some major real life problems. I can’t wait for those revolutionary applications…

Wow: “For instance, ThinkUp, from Gina Trapani and Anil Dash, will mine your Twitter and Facebook activity for insights and patterns — then deliver the information to you, not to a marketer.”

Yes, I find myself in a situation like this almost everyday: “For instance, you’re reading a New York Times travel story about Barcelona. You want to book an Airbnb there pronto. On your phone, you’d have to exit your New York Times app, then start up your Airbnb app and search for Barcelona in it. In a Web browser, you could have clicked straight through from one site to the other — and landed directly on a page of Barcelona listings.”

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