I'm more of a Compendium obsessive or monomaniac than a mere advocate :-) ,
but I have a few provisional answers to Eric's question below. (01)
- there is a relatively high cognitive barrier to entry to starting to use
Compendium (or probably any other tool that appears to require 'extra' steps
like choosing node types, chunking text into nodes at first entry, etc.) (02)
- the tool doesn't answer the question "why should I use you" in an
immediate and obvious fashion (03)
- it seems to be a harder way to do something relatively simple (structuring
discourse) than simpler approaches provide (04)
- it's sort of hard to do it well, or at least it requires some skill and
thought to do so; it's easy to make unfollowable messes of nodes and links (05)
- the approach seems to work best for communication oriented to the shaping
of some sort of communal artifact (a knowledge base, a repository of project
information, a set of models, a bunch of interrelated stories/narratives,
etc.) then for informal, free-form communication (06)
Having said that, there are many other powerful and tremendously useful
tools that share at least some of the same characteristics (I always think
of Photoshop as an example there, and many programming tools). If the above
aren't barriers, and if one has the patience, personal orientation, skills,
and/or suitable end goals in mind, Compendium can be of immense value, a
faster and more expressive way to create 'discourse objects' than any other
that I've found (sorry if that sounds fanatical again :-) ). (07)
Al (08)
>From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@blueoxen.org>
...
>Another example: We have two strong Compendium advocates in this group
>-- Al and Simon. I'd like to consider myself one as well, as the tool
>is an integral part of my work, but sadly, I'm less vocal. Danny,
>Matt, Eric, and Jack have all posted thoughts on IBIS. Why aren't
>more people trying Compendium?
> (09)
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