NOTE: this is an experimental view. As an experimental view, it is not necessarily finished in all aspects individuals users might want.
The view'sts purpose is to allow users interested in Dieberger's 'Information City' ideas to explore them within Tinderbox as explained here.
Essentially, in the Information City view notes are represented by buildings. It shows only the contents of a single container within the document (tin that sense, akin to Map view). The styling of a building can represent other metadata. The resulting city is shown in a 3D render allowing the human visitor to walk around it. The location and juxtaposition of buildings is intended to aid navigation, recall and serendipitous discovery.
What is the scope of the view?
The view's scope is the children of the container used to hold the view. Depending on the building type chosen for a child notes, its children (i.e. grandchildren of the container/view) may be rendered. There is an option to hide child notes in the view if not pertinent to such display. Thus a an empty container (a note!) will contain only an empty city with no buildings. it is the container's child notes that populate the city.
The contents of the view is discussed in more detail here.
Configuring the view
This is achieved via the views context menu, supported by a small number of system attributes in a new 'InformationCity' group.
More information on configuration and use of this view:
- Context menu controls
- Navigation controls
- Relationship to other views
- Background to the Information City view
- InformationCity Attributes
See also—notes linking to here: