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Working on The Future of Text, currently with a focus on XR. https://futuretextlab.info
If you had a super simple and elegant way to TAG your documents, what tags would you like to have available?
05.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it's finally happening
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Testing new commands for interactions in the Map in Author.
youtu.be/0vcyW6Hwlfs
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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visual-meta.info
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Dear Apple why can't I have a launcher anymore? Why do I have to type in the name of the app I want to use, or try to find it in an ever changing list of icons?
30.09.2025 05:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Join our discussion on thinking with spatial information!
futuretextlab.info/2025-schedule/
Questions to the community. Alternative questions, not only answers, are of course also very welcome:
11.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Video now up:
This Future of Text meeting focused on Patrick Lichty's presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments.
futuretextlab.info/2025/09/01/1...
Today's meeting focused on Patrick Lichty’s presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. JOIN US ANY MONDAY!
futuretextlab.info/2025/09/01/1...
Information Landscapes: Muriel Cooper at the TED5 Conference. A true much watch for anyone interested in information and presentation.
youtu.be/BhrZHkdc2rU?...
Introduction to Author macOS V11 is now available:
www.augmentedtext.info/walkthrough-...
AI: Summary on ‘The Future of Text 6’ in XR from yesterday:
This meeting focused on designing interactions for viewing and organizing academic articles from the Future of Text book series within an XR cube environment...
futuretextlab.info/2025/08/09/t...
Please join us Monday as we discuss how we can view and interact with ‘The Future of Text’ articles in XR.
The basic notion is a Cube with all the articles and active Frames to help the user decide what to read.
youtu.be/dxUAODye6XY?...
Yes please
14.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
8"x8" plot, 520 curves in muted turquoise.
Bantam Tools Axidraw V3/A3,
Liquitex Muted Turquoise acrylic ink,
Rotring Isograph 0.2mm,
Canson cold pressed watercolor 300g.
#plotter #plotterart #inkandpaper #creativecoding #axidraw #liquitexacrylicink
A hook hangs from another hook that's screwed into a small blue canvas.
Hook (blue). #minimalistart #assemblage #dada #art
03.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0We will be discussing "Challenges of Designing Textual Knowledge Interactions For XR" today.
Please feel free to join us: 8:30-10 Pacific | 11:30-1:00 Eastern | 4:30-6 UK | 5:30-7 CEST
futuretextlab.info/2025/08/02/1...
If you would like to Beta Test Author V 11 for macOS, you can download the app from here: testflight.apple.com/join/gqjWYvhC
07.08.2025 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Fixed. Thank you for telling me.
29.07.2025 08:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really? Thanks. I’ll check.
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Would you like to test the latest Author for Mac?
I would love your feedback on any stage of use, including installation/first use, writing, views, AI and so on, should you have the time.
Please feel free to point out anything big or tiny...
testflight.apple.com/join/gqjWYvhC
Isometric exercises like wall squats are gentle on your body, but can enhance your fitness in a surprisingly efficient way, discovers Grace Wade.
22.07.2025 05:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Oh really...
22.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our session today is now up.
Presentation by Ayaskant Panigrahi on WebExtensions for WebXR – how web extensions could be adapted for spatial computing environments.
Feel free to join us any given Monday to discuss the future of text.
futuretextlab.info/2025/07/05/a...
Two current reads
21.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We will have a presentation on Web Extensions for XR in an hour with discussion afterwards. Join us!
futuretextlab.info/2025/07/05/a...
#ThrowbackThursday to the summer of 1982 🧑🏫
Here we see physicist John Bell, known for his theorem on the foundations of quantum mechanics – which he worked on #AtCERN – laying the groundwork for the now-vibrant field of quantum information.
well that is exceptionally beautiful
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