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Mapping Hypertext

Submitted by Natwwal on 2 November 2006 - 1:09pm.

I just finished reading Magoo's post on hypertext. While his point was enlightening and interesting, I found that very little of it applied to the specific project I am working on. My project is based around the idea of taking existing narratives about a single event and combining them into a hypertext. Therefore, my challenges lie in selecting and linking the material together in interesting ways. Trying to keep myself organized has been quite a challenge. So far, I've been organizing my thoughts by creating a gigantic Microsoft Word file containing the material I want to use. I have it broken up into pages and italicized the words that I plan to link to something else. I then use the italicized word as the title of the page I plan to link to. This has been working for me so far, but I feel as though there must be a better way to keep things organized. Does anyone else have ideas as to good ways to maintain some semblence of organization in a developing hypertext?

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magoo made a point in one of

Submitted by Lulu on 2 November 2006 - 7:36pm.

magoo made a point in one of his posts about using simple code to organize your information.

he advises coding like this:

"00 = meta-information
01 = first residence
02 = second " . . . . . and so forth."

i'm in pretty much the same predicament as you. i'm writing a hypertext fiction, and what i'm doing these days is writing everything in one huge microsoft word document and bolding links. it's starting to confuse me a little, since there's starting to be more and more links, but the simple code has helped me a lot.

if, say, you're using 3 existing narratives, you can start by coding them as 1,2,3. and then for everything that belongs to 1, you'll have 1a,1b,1c, and so on and so forth. and if 1a branches off into several links, you'll do 1a(1), 1a(2), 1a(3)...whatever numbering/lettering that you find simplest. of course, you'll have titles for each body of text that you write, but perhaps in brackets you can do the numbering thing so that you can remember where each text goes.

good luck!

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