25 May '26

This session centred on the evolving spatial interface of Author for visionOS, using Douglas Engelbart's 1962 paper as a large-scale test document. The conversation moved from concrete design questions — how section cards should look, how selection states should be rendered, how visual differentiation by category or search could work in an immersive space — into a deeper conceptual inquiry about the nature of supplementary knowledge in digital documents. The group explored what endnotes, footnotes, and annotations become when freed from the constraints of paper, seeking both a functional model and appropriate terminology for "the extra stuff" that surrounds a primary text when it inhabits three-dimensional space.https://futuretextlab.info/2026/05/25/25-may-2026/