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HOW HYPERTEXTS HELP ME ORGANIZE MY WRITING

8/10/2022

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For the last two months, I have not completed any new pages in any of my hypertext projects. This feels frustrating at times, because I want to keep writing. But I have not stopped working on my projects. In fact, they are constantly growing in ways that remain invisible for a casual visitor of this site. This hidden efficiency is the beauty of hypertexts, and I am loving the strategy I have discovered.

When I have an interesting thought or come across an example that is connected to one of the topics explored here, I simply add a note to the relevant unfinished page in one of my hypertext projects. This way, each page serves as a repository of ideas on a certain topic. I do not feel stressed thinking that I may forget my thoughts or examples. I am also not worried about having to comb through notes in a Word document, as I used to do in the past. Some of the notes made the old way were never used because I could not remember how they were related to issues that I was discussing!

I do write some things down in my iPhone notepad, to be added to relevant hypertext pages later. However, the notepad list is less daunting because it’s not my only way of note-taking. It also feels rewarding when I find some time to go through these bullet points and add them to hypertext entries. My hope is that, as the hypertexts grow (i.e., more pages are added) I will use the iPhone notepad less and less. At this point, I use it mostly when I cannot right away come up with an existing page where the information I want to write down would go.

All in all, I feel happy that I am practicing hypertext writing now! It suits my habits very well and allows me to explore many directions of thought in a variety of topics.
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    • About
    • Books
      • Media is us >
        • Principles of communication
        • Micro- and macropower
        • ACE model
        • Description of chapters
        • When conflicts get out of control
      • Hypertexts >
        • Me, looking for meaning >
          • A >
            • Am I strong or am I weak?
          • B >
            • Binaries
            • Both sides
            • Bureaucracy
          • C >
            • Can I give myself credit for being empathetic?
            • Choice
            • Circumstances
            • Cognitive biases
            • Common sense
            • Communication
            • Coincidence
            • Content and form of this book
            • Coronavirus and me
            • Culture
            • Cycle of violence
          • D >
            • Depression
            • Do children ask themselves about the purpose of life?
            • Doing the right thing
          • E >
            • Emotional pain
            • Empathy
            • Empathy as a matter of self-preservation
            • Everybody has their struggles
            • Everybody is connected
            • Explain/excuse conflation
          • F >
            • Feelings and emotions
            • Forgetting about your purpose
            • Free will
          • G >
            • Good vs. Bad
          • H >
            • How much do we understand each other?
            • Human brain
            • Human nature
            • Human needs
            • Human thinking
            • Human thinking is nonlinear
            • Hurt people hurt people
            • Hypertext books
          • I >
            • I am an optimist
            • Ideas
            • "I'll never understand!"
            • Individual meanings vs. shared meanings
            • Inner compass
            • Interpretation
            • "It is what it is"
          • J
          • K >
            • Knowing your true purpose
            • Knowledge
          • L >
            • Language
            • List of completed pages
            • Literal vs. nonliteral communication
          • M >
            • Make Sense
            • May I meet this, too, with kindness
            • Meaning as importance
            • Mean and stupid
            • My Anxiety
            • Meaning
            • Meaningless
            • Meaning wars
            • Meaning of life
            • Meaning communities
            • Meanings perceived by animals
            • Meaning-seeking vs. meaning-making
            • Media
            • (Mis)understanding each other's needs
            • My perfectionism
            • My quest for meaning
          • N >
            • Norms
          • O >
            • Objectification
            • On being a scholar
            • On being a writer
            • On being right
          • P >
            • Paradox
            • Parenting
            • Privilege
            • Polarization
            • Postmodern worldview
            • Postmodern philosophy
            • Power
            • Power of the mind
            • Problem/solution binary
          • Q
          • R >
            • Reality
            • Rhizome in philosophy
          • S >
            • Science, religion and art
            • Self-awareness and empathy of higher order
            • Self-awareness
            • Self-empathy
            • Stories we tell
            • Society vs Individual
            • Subjectivity and objectivity
            • Suggested citation format
            • Synesthesia
          • T >
            • "The Death of the Author"
            • The importance of having a purpose
            • Truth
          • U >
            • Understanding ourselves
            • Us and them
          • V >
            • Verbal vs. nonverbal communication
            • Violence in the human nature
          • W >
            • What does it mean to "understand"?
            • What is a text?
            • What we can learn about ourselves from media
            • What is "natural"?
            • What's the point?
            • What will this project become?
            • Where do meanings come from?
            • Why am I trying to stay sane?
            • Why do people hurt each other?
            • Why is language so unhelpful?
            • Why do everyday objects make sense?
            • Why do misunderstandings happen?
          • X
          • Y
          • Z
        • Power of meanings // Meanings of power
    • Editing
      • Me as your editor
      • How I will help you
      • Pricing
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      • Five (easy) steps to become media literate
      • Surviving the polarization vortex
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      • Not enough
    • Learn more
      • Bio
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      • Essays
      • Poetry >
        • Russian poems >
          • Stranger
          • Lonely heart
          • Fairy tales
          • Dreams and nightmares
          • Puzzles
          • Moon
          • Seasons
          • Muse
          • Art
          • Games
          • Sketches
          • Nonsense
        • English poems
      • Epoxy resin
      • Photography
      • Educational materials
    • Contact me