PAGES ARE SUPERIOR TO INFINITY
Where I think about how constrained formats help reading and writing.

A webpage is infinite. You identify parts of the page by headings, and maybe
sometimes paragraphs. Sometimes there's a table of contents (!). There is a
cost that comes with having infinite space though, and that's how do you, in a
somewhat uniform way, present this information?

Enter 6"/9" paper. This is a standard that a lot of technology has
evolved around and for good reason. The format constrains how much text can fit
horizontally and vertically. It allows text to manifest onto physical mediums
(paper). It provides a canvas to lay things onto.

Lately there has been a trend to mimic books on the web. I believe this is
because a lot of people are looking back for inspiration toward content layout.
It provides a consistent format for all content, and is scalable.

**True** responsive content, e.g. content that wraps itself at any arbitrary
size, resizes images, etc, rarely looks fantastic at **ANY** size.

No, instead what has happened is web designers design for many devices. To me
this is not true responsiveness. These designers are just "typesetting" for
different devices. There is nothing special about it.

The issue is content layout heavily depends on context.

1. What is the content about? Is it a reference? A memoir?
2. What is your audience?

Now look at books. Virtually all books are around a certain size, with a certain
font size. You can jump to any arbitrary page quickly. The web doesn't have
this. Instead we must use anchor tags among other tricks which are not as
precise.

Based on this, going forward I'm going to try and format all my content as
follows because my content is mostly rambling, random ideas, and my audience is
the average technical person and not children or elderly. In those cases the
format should be changed to meet new requirements.

* All webpages are broken up into pages
* Text is justified an not left or right aligned, as it is in books
* Pages retain 6"/9" measurements
* Pages can be linked to
* Paragraphs can be linked to
* Each article has a table of contents
* Each article has an index

We need to remember that technology augments our abilities, and shouldn't make
us lazier. A lot of what I said can be automated, and should be taken into
consideration.