just doing the thing where I coin a phrase and then track how it spreads

I tried notion a little bit but it didn't stick for me. so i'm not sure. I'm guessing notion is meant to be a layer more polished and final than roam is, which is more of a magic junkyard

— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) January 3, 2020

There are two types of accounts on Twitter

1) highly polished/curated content designed to achieve a specific goal

2) magic junkyard © @visakanv

— Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne) January 24, 2020

“We’ve been called everything from”the Superhuman of Notes” to a “Magic Junkyard for connecting your ideas.” – Roam’s AngelList page

“there’s a reason people call it a magic junkyard.” – reddit comment

Mentioned in A Taxonomy Of Notes, this Medium post by @MattBrockwell

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dec2023: i should probably expand this into a substack essay, be more descriptive. what is a junkyard, why do junkyards exist? what is magic? what is the utility of mess? connections between non-obvious, disparate things. when does a junkyard start to lose its magic?

nov2024: a magic junkyard is a context that is messy but has animating spirit, a liveliness to it, something where things come alive seemingly of their own volition. it’s not trivial to make a space magical like that, as evidenced by the fact that arguably most built environments aren’t like that. christopher alexander would have a lot to say about this sad state of affairs. but i’m less interested right now in explaining it, than in enacting it. what can i do to make my magic junkyard more alive? I think for starters the first thing is to do an audit and notice what regions are more lively than others.