0.0 m · surface sediment.foo
An idea notebook that forgets.
Post the rough version. The ideas people keep opening and adding to stay near the top, and the rest sinks out of the way on its own, so you never have to delete anything. Last week’s stuff comes back with one look. Bedrock takes a lot of people digging.
Each Sediment runs at its own address under sediment.foo, with its own accounts, ideas and sign-ins.
By invitation only, for now.
- Sheet
- sediment.foo
- Datum
- 0.0 m, the surface
- Units
- Pretend metres
- Status
- Soft launch, by invitation
What it is
Somewhere to set ideas down.
Post a thought as text, code, a picture, a sketch or a voice note, or build it as a 3D model, a schematic or a short animation. Whatever shape it takes, it starts at the surface like everything else.
Each person has their own layers, and a core sample: a cut through their current and long-buried ideas. This page is laid out like one.
Seven kinds of idea · each sinks and rises by the same rules
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Text
Words, lists, notes.
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Code
For the ideas that are easier said in code.
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Picture
Drawn on the canvas, or a photo, or both.
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Audio
Voice notes and sounds.
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3D model
For the ideas that are easier shown in three dimensions.
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Schematic
Drawn to scale or to a convention: floor plans, circuits, flowcharts.
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Animation
Short animations, memes and GIFs, with sound.
How ideas sink
Leave it alone and it sinks.
Every idea starts at the surface. Then it goes down: 10 cm for each day it’s left alone, and 2 cm for each of its author’s other ideas picked up since, as the newer ones pile on top.
Depth is measured in pretend metres, and it decides the layer. The further down an idea is, the more it’s compacted into a shorter preview.
- Each day left alone
- 10 cm
- Each newer idea on top
- 2 cm
| Layer | Starts at | Left alone for |
|---|---|---|
| Topsoil | 0.0 m | the first day |
| Silt | 0.1 m | up to a week |
| Clay | 0.7 m | up to 30 days |
| Shale | 3.0 m | up to 90 days |
| Slate | 9.0 m | up to a year |
| Bedrock | 36.5 m | a year and more |
The ages count days alone. Newer ideas piling on top push an older one down sooner.
How ideas rise
Pick it back up and it rises.
Doing something with an idea lifts it back up, a little at a time. The deeper it has sunk, the more that takes.
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Lifts it1 m
Open it
Just looking counts.
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Lifts it2 m
React to it
A +1, asking AI about it, or asking its author to collaborate.
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Lifts it3 m
Build on it
Adding to it, or running with it: starting your own idea from it.
The same person doing the same thing again within a day doesn’t lift it any further, and a +1 lifts only the first time.
What it takes to dig one up
1 m down
1 look
36.5 m down a year
37 looks
36.5 m down a year
or 19 +1s
Sharing and the rest
Who sees it, who helps, where it goes.
- Who sees it
- Everyone, or only a circle (a group you make), your family, or just you. Ideas can carry an age rating too.
- AI help
- With your own key: you bring one from your AI provider. AI and other background work shows as little bubbles on your dashboard, and tells you when it’s done.
- Export
- Take an idea out as a project, with its code, sounds and pictures.
- Linked projects
- Link an idea to a project on GitHub, Google Drive or Dropbox.
- On your phone
- Install it as a web app, with notifications.
- Themes
- Pick one or make your own. This page wears Field notes, the default, or Basalt when your device is set to dark.
Your own
Dig your own.
Want a Sediment of your own? Each one is separate, so an account on one won’t log you in to another.
Your SedimentSoft launch
Your own Sediment, at yours.sediment.foo
- Its address
- A name of its own, then .sediment.foo
- Comes with
- Accounts, ideas and sign-ins
- Getting one
- By invitation only, for now