Listening back to old episodes, caught Jason Brennan talking about his work on Beach, and it got me wondering, is there any work in the world of notebook-esc environments that plays with the infinite absolutely spaced canvas concept we've seen so much of recently? Is there any merit to moving such a tool off the y axis? Been daydreaming about a spatial and federated tool somewhere between observable and obsidian

Consider the humble spreadsheet. :) My first thought was "the y-axis sure is nice for showing dependency order, so you need to compensate for losing that". In limited experience with IIRC Jupyter, I remember having to think a lot about cell dependencies and cache invalidation, which would have been prohibitive if the cells had been laid out in every direction. If all that stuff is automatic, then you can get away with making data flow less brutally visible.

http://natto.dev/ kinda?