SlimeWrite

Tending to ideas as they seed, grow, fruit, and rot.

SlimeWrite is a writing tool that helps you develope your ideas organically, and to present them navicably and efficiently. Unlike other Evergreen Notes/Digital Garden tools, SlimeWrite emphasizes the decay and destruction of older notes, so that your writing can benefit from a healthy "metabolism".

Our priority isn't on building a feature-packed UI with customization, bells, whistles etc, but on cystallizing a networked writing system that works well, and makes existing solutions (Obsidian, org, jekyll, mediawiki) interoperable and collaboration-ready.

SlimeWrite responds to common problems in the space of things like Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, Org and other PKMS software:

  1. If you're doing a lot of networked writing, you eventually get to a horrible ball-of-yarn that is unhelpful and overwhelming.
  2. While all of these apps are ostensibly interoperable, there are some nastey edge cases where things like tags aren't transferable. SlimeWrite's data model is maximally compatible.
  3. These tools are all pretty niche, and if you need to collaborate with "normies" it isn't really possible. SlimeWrite has an intuitive interface that the Google-Docs croud are be happy to use.

The solution SlimeWrite provides to these are:

  1. Novel interfaces centered around a graph view of your remarks.
    • Sorted graph views
    • tiered archiving to keep your working notes uncluttered
    • 3d timeline view of writing history
    • computed tags including via LLM
  2. Unify several data models into the de-facto standard (markdown with frontmatter)
  3. Online-first live editing, or robust pull/push/merge with offline sources via git