Nette: A Research OS for the Web, feature spotlight 🔦 De-construct | “semantic” drag and drop | https://nette.io/ =========================================== Goal: Whenever I see anything that carries meaning I can take it out of the original context and drop it on canvas. Outcome: It becomes a block (like an “object”) Constraints: • a universal gesture in the system • grows the system—indexing and keeping back references (blocks know their sources) • _intuitive_—aligns with what we consider meaningful • idea of being _first class—_wide class of media have a first class representation—can be acted upon and re-combined in a consistent way Have a wonderful weekend! 😎

what a brilliant concept! the idea of dragging information out of a specific context, and allowing for it to then build new context is something that I feel like if much more intuitive than creating multiple tabs/stack in a modern research architecture, it makes sense mentally and visually. Kind of reminds me of the system in intellij that lets you jump from a function call to the function def, something I don’t think I could live without. Have a wonderful weekend as well and good luck with the feature.

Thank you @yeT!

makes sense mentally and visually

And also manually 😄 It’s a gesture, it’s an expression of *agency*—_thinking with hands_ kind of thing—_I want to take it apart and put it back together to understand—_kind of mentality. For that you need well (-ish) defined domain and affordances—something more granular, not a rendered document as a unit of meaning. Here is an *example in the context of a “readable” version of a webpage*—pulling out links and images etc.

Love this concept - definitely keen to try out a beta version when its’ ready! Feels similar to the approach Kosmik is taking: https://lithium.paris/ (not a bad thing to have multiple apps exploring spatial interfaces. the more the better!)

Another project in the same spirit is Croquet's Greenlight that they recently open-sourced. You can play with it by going here and clicking "Create a room": https://croquet.io/greenlight/index.html

hey @Pawel Ceranka @yeT and I were just trying to look at this today and the website is down—“if this project is dead now I am going to be so bummed”—any updates?

Hi @Garth Goldwater! Thanks for asking :) It’s quite the opposite actually—it went from a solo project to a company, also I’ve managed to fundraise and hire and now for the last 3 months we’ve been deep in dev mode. We want to ship an alpha version for people to play around with next month—so good timing as well ;) I would like to start posting about it regularly as soon as we’re past that first milestone, so watch this space. Cheers 🍹

kick ass! okay I was so bummed seeing the site being down and I was like, how did such a cool project kick the bucket so quickly?? Great to hear y’all are still spinning and have got some momentum, very excited for the alpha