Reading your post, the idea of Concept Dependency reminded me of the way that some people implement their Zettelkasten systems using Obsidian software. This software uses wiki-type links, and has the native ability that if you press control while hovering over one of these links, that you get a preview. These previews render (mostly) normally, except they are smaller than usual. They can still be scrolled like usual, links clicked internally, and so on.
I sometimes see people using these links in a way similar to how you are describing concept dependency posts. For example, if something contained a quote where a word is being used in an unusual way (like philosophers love to do), when you “peek” at the link you might see, for example, how the author previously defined the term.
I saw one implementation where the author would link to where they had previously justified the assumptions they were using in their research. Unfortunately I don’t have any good resources specifically for this kind of implementation, though I think that my comments likely explained it well enough.|
For a similar idea regarding making scientific research (or any kind of academic paper, really) more modularly accessible in the context of storage or writing, you might be interested in some of the work that Joel Chan has done on Discourse Graphs. He has used a few other names as well, for example “iTunes for papers”.
I think that “information architecture” is an interesting concept. These two ideas seemed the most closely related to what you’re describing.
Reading your post, the idea of Concept Dependency reminded me of the way that some people implement their Zettelkasten systems using Obsidian software. This software uses wiki-type links, and has the native ability that if you press control while hovering over one of these links, that you get a preview. These previews render (mostly) normally, except they are smaller than usual. They can still be scrolled like usual, links clicked internally, and so on.
I sometimes see people using these links in a way similar to how you are describing concept dependency posts. For example, if something contained a quote where a word is being used in an unusual way (like philosophers love to do), when you “peek” at the link you might see, for example, how the author previously defined the term.
I saw one implementation where the author would link to where they had previously justified the assumptions they were using in their research. Unfortunately I don’t have any good resources specifically for this kind of implementation, though I think that my comments likely explained it well enough.|
For a similar idea regarding making scientific research (or any kind of academic paper, really) more modularly accessible in the context of storage or writing, you might be interested in some of the work that Joel Chan has done on Discourse Graphs. He has used a few other names as well, for example “iTunes for papers”.
I think that “information architecture” is an interesting concept. These two ideas seemed the most closely related to what you’re describing.