Flow Systems+Wagn Prototype

Contributors to Wagn/Decko prototype projects are invited to read and contribute to this community book on the platform It's Cards all the Way Down.

There are few things that the card representation is better at than tracking complex relationships.  The fractal structure of a field, of what intentions are inclusive and contain others, and what are individual items contained in, as well as the interconnection across fields of complementary purposes.  Abstractly, this is a labelled link.  In Wagn, a tag pointing to one or more cards is almost the defining pattern even if there are many ways to represent these in cards.  So, to represent the <i>parent</i> relationship, I can have cards tagged with <b>+parent</b> (i.e. A_card has A_card+parent as a related "tag" card), which is a pointer that should contain one other card.  In Wagn we often have a complementary search to represent the arrow in the reversed direction, so I can search for all the cards with Another_card as a parent to find Another_card+children.  It is an area of active interest and improvement to make this sort of bi-directional link into a first class feature and make using them even easier.

Thinking about this further, we may want to de-emphasize the hierarchy even more in favor of networked model basis. We may still want some scale based hierarchy represented, but maybe that should be more emergent in any case. Center on human scale and empowering distributed agents through their networked connections. See A visual history of human knowledge.

We will begin to build a roughed out prototype within this wagn.  So, we'll start by defining some types: