I built a prototype of something vaguely similar a few years ago that replicated a desk with papers stacked in piles. No searching, no sorting, no tagging--just typing on notes, dragging them into stacks, and a paintbrush to draw on the deck. This lets you leverage the brain's natural tendency to associate locations with ideas, like a memory palace. Want that recipe from a few weeks ago? You remember it was in a pile by a blue house you drew.

I see a similar philosophy here, expanded with more features and a larger scope. It's also great seeing a notes/organization system that isn't the same stupid three panels, tags on the left, etc.

Looking forward to trying it out when the site returns. Thanks for sharing!

some observations:

items -> stacks, items -> folders, folders -> stacks, stacks -> desktop. each item can only be in single folder. copies of items can go into different folders. drag item to copier machines to duplicate.

Being endless is a power. And having structure ie. being able to emerge structure out of this would also be powerful.

I like it. If you make it open source, or maybe a plugin system would allow people to add what they think it would be needed without you having to implement it.

Or just play with this and see where it takes you.

Do you plan to support code blocks with syntax highlighting? Markdown text blocks ?

I’m working on ideas for replicating a physical desk in a digital space. Your project is a good start. Additional layers are communication (email, chat, video) and shared access (shared library?, read only access to desk).