Waiting for your feedback on the UI prototype for connecting cotos

We are now prototyping a UI for making connections. So currently, the connections are ephemeral (not saved in the server) and some features are still missing.

We need your help! We are testing UI prototype for coto-connecting at https://t.co/r1kqiIgiaA and waiting for your feedback. pic.twitter.com/OnAaqqxoq7

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 3, 2017

Note: connections won't be saved. it's just a mock UI.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 3, 2017

Active/Passive Hypothesis

Thanks! We want users to find unexpected associations rather than drill down to specific, so we need to find a way to make it possible. https://t.co/DRDWvP2D0t

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 5, 2017

A thought: I've been thinking about cotoami's concept I posted before with a little bit of doubt and questioning.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

That's about the probability of discovering new(unexpected) cotonomas(concetps).

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

I think the problem would be the information flow: a user inputs cotos he/she will connect later on.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

When you input cotos, it would be inevitable for you to assume some structure in advance unless you intentionally input random topics.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

That would make it difficult to motivate users to look for new concepts.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

So if you think about a system solely aiming at having users to look for new concepts, I think we should change the flow:

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

A user can only create groups from random cotos that have been posted by other users or, for example, scraped from the web.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

And the coto-groups (or cotonomas) created by users will be shown in other users' random cotos flow for further grouping.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

This is just a rough idea or hypothesis. But I believe it would be valuable to consider for the future of cotoami.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

This hypothesis has an interesting implication: *actively* collecting information might be an obstacle for discovering something new.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

pic.twitter.com/SAbvJ8QBgm

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 16, 2017

Suggestion: Inline cotos

https://twitter.com/ChaDonSom/status/862662894751764484

• Inline cotos with Cotoami (demonstrated in Oinker) - Album on Imgur

Turning a phrase into a cotonoma would be useful, but we should be cautious about coto-nesting because it'll introduces double structures. https://t.co/ighC9gUm7P

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 11, 2017

For example, creating a new cotonoma from a phrase or keyword in coto-content and relating them by linknizing the phrase.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 11, 2017

That leads to a feature of hyperlinking all the cotonoma names in coto-content.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/ChaDonSom/status/862763655527583746

https://twitter.com/ChaDonSom/status/863007827849293824

The distinction of the two concepts “incremental” and “iterative”

A thought: the distinction of the two concepts "incremental" and "iterative" is important in creation (or ideation). https://t.co/hr3xVYUpAp

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 10, 2017

However, the current concept of Cotoami (or Oinker) only supports "incremental". So probably we should consider "iterative" as well.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 10, 2017

In Cotoami, "iterating" might be like elaborating on content based on a coto-graph which has been built "incrementally". https://t.co/fUj7k518R2

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 11, 2017

Incrementing and Iterating in Cotoami might be like: pic.twitter.com/tiJ3d0Ewvm

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) May 11, 2017

Types of Connections

That would be interesting to explore: the types of connections. Like relationships in Concept-maps. https://t.co/c8fbYJ9KlO

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 8, 2017

Cotoami’s concept of knowledge generation

This is Cotoami's concept of knowledge generation: pic.twitter.com/CKswaFqgzs

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 4, 2017

Cotoami concept model: pic.twitter.com/RSPfYQEBYu

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 8, 2017

Thanks! We want users to find unexpected associations rather than drill down to specific, so we need to find a way to make it possible. https://t.co/DRDWvP2D0t

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) April 5, 2017

This is how I imagine my twitter timeline – and what I want to work into Mastodon. https://t.co/8tl6Wvql1M

— _ (@ultimape) April 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/gardenfelder/status/851970938224742400

Cotonomas

A cotonoma is a chatroom-like unit which has a timeline to which you post cotos, and connections you create between the cotos. Nestable.

New feature: You can create cotonomas, which are like directories/folders in Cotoami, and post cotos into them. pic.twitter.com/vIVkQ6aIzm

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) January 31, 2017

New feature: You can share a cotonoma with other amishis(users). pic.twitter.com/ORNoPfPs85

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) February 28, 2017

New feature: You can browse cotonomas with a responsive navigation. pic.twitter.com/o62YkAb2v9

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) February 28, 2017

pic.twitter.com/54IJBs4r0q

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) February 28, 2017

New feature: Cotonomas are now have their permalinks.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) March 15, 2017

New feature: Timelines and member presences are updated in realtime. pic.twitter.com/GWGIvqfyAS

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) March 26, 2017

Hello!

After the experimental endeavor to create a next-generation Piggydb, which became Oinker.me, we decided to re-create it from scratch as open source.

The project is called “Cotoami”. It is still in an early stage of development and we are looking for some comments and feedback from people who are interested in tools to support creative work.

Hello! This is the Cotoami project.

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) December 30, 2016

As of now, you can only sign in/out and post markdown contents (which is called 'cotos' in Cotoami) as an anonymous or signed-in user. pic.twitter.com/MyBGW9LZmo

— Cotoami Project (@cotoami) December 30, 2016