Doxygen provides an excellent highlighted view of source code with hyperlinked cross-references! https://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/DataLayout_8cpp_source.html Why is this rare?
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The vast majority of 'external brain' systems seem to based on hyperlinked text. This seems to be true for exocortex, memex or zettelcasten inspired designs.
This is great for reading, but you can't do DB queries to answer questions. What would a 'semantic web' design look like?
'As We May Think' is an article from 1945 that introduced the idea of a 'memex', a personal computer with hyperlinked documents.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
It treats reading trails as a first class entity that can be commented and shared!