Every now and then I think about NoteCards, an early hypertext application developed at Xerox PARC, and dream about having something similar. But today, it dawned on me that GNU Emacs with Denote is already quite close to what I would probably do with NoteCards.

By the way: did you know it was written in Lisp? And its source code is available on GitHub!

#NoteCards #Lisp #KnowledgeBase

Every now and then I think about NoteCards, an early hypertext application developed at Xerox PARC, and dream about having something similar. But today, it dawned on me that GNU Emacs with Denote is already quite close to what I would probably do with NoteCards.

By the way: did you know it was written in Lisp? And its source code is available on GitHub!

#NoteCards #Lisp #KnowledgeBase

What helped me deliver my RetroChallgence 2024 project on time? Prior experience with the Interlisp API of NoteCards and the nature of Lisp and Lisp systems.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/how-lisp-helped-my-retrochallenge-2024-project

#RC2024 #RetroChallenge #retrocomputing #interlisp #NoteCards

RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the winners. I entered with the WebCard project written in Interlisp, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites.

Thanks to the organizers, voters, and judges and congrats to all the entrants, especially @psychotimmy who won the Grand Prize.

https://www.retrochallenge.org/2025/10/rc202410-resultsless-than-year-late.html

https://github.com/pamoroso/webcard

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/tag:WebCard

#RC2024 #RetroChallenge #retrocomputing #interlisp #NoteCards

RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the winners. I entered with the WebCard project written in Interlisp, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites.

Thanks to the organizers, voters, and judges and congrats to all the entrants, especially @psychotimmy who won the Grand Prize.

https://www.retrochallenge.org/2025/10/rc202410-resultsless-than-year-late.html

https://github.com/pamoroso/webcard

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/tag:WebCard

#RC2024 #RetroChallenge #retrocomputing #interlisp #NoteCards

In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.

A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.

For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/58566.59299

#NoteCards #interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.

A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.

For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/58566.59299

#NoteCards #interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.

#NoteCards #Interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.

#NoteCards #Interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

At ACM #Hypertext @ht: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at http://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746683
@hist_HT @interlisp @amoroso

#NoteCards #interlisp #retrocomputing #hypertext

#NoteCards #interlisp #retrocomputing #hypertext

A comprehensive introduction to the NoteCards hypermedia system developed in Interlisp at Xerox PARC. This 1985 videotape covers and demonstrates tha basic system, the programmer's interface, and research issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZCitxFlnqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYGDON_7Ds

#NoteCards #interlisp #retrocomputing #hypertext