DISCRIMINANT•LY

Notes

A thing worth remembering, in your own words. Not a claim to own, like or endorse it.

A public note in Discriminantly on a phone: a coffee grinder, the member’s reason for saving it, a link, and the Owned switch turned on
A public note, with its ownership record. The note says the grinder was worth remembering; the separate Owned switch records that the member owns it. Neither implies a recommendation.

What it is

Objects and interests.

Notes remember objects and interests: a thing, a maker, an idea. A note records that you thought it worth remembering, with a line on why.

What keeping one asserts

Exactly this.

Keeping a note asserts one thing: you thought it worth remembering. The headline and the line beneath are yours; tags, a link and a picture go with it.

What it does not assert

And never implies.

It does not assert that you own it, bought it, like it, use it or recommend it. Owning is a separate record you make deliberately. Recommending is a warrant. Neither is ever inferred from a note’s existence or its wording.

How it relates to the others

Separate records, separate meanings.

A note can sit in any number of collections, and can be attached to a stop in an itinerary (a coffee to buy at a roaster, say). It is never a place: places are travel marks.

Where it appears

In the application.

On your profile under Notes, in your collections, in search, and in the All feed when public. A note page shows the note, its picture, who noted it, and the comments on it.

In the application

From the member’s own record, on a phone.

The form for a new note in Discriminantly: collection, a link to paste, an image, title, comments, hashtags, and the Private and Owned switches
Saving a note. A pasted link fills the title, text and picture; privacy, ownership and a warrant are separate switches, each off unless the member sets it.
A privately noted shaving soap in Discriminantly on a phone, with a warrant seal in the corner and the Owned switch turned on
A private note that is both owned and warranted. The seal is the warrant, a deliberate endorsement; the switch is the ownership record; the note itself is only the record that it was worth saving. Private, so visible to the member and the AI they have connected.

With an authorized AI

Retrieved, and added, when you ask.

A connected assistant can find your notes by words, tag or collection, save a new one when you ask, and adjust an existing one. It is told to write in your voice and never to record ownership or endorsement unless you say so.

Privacy and provenance

Per record.

Public by default, visible to other members and anyone with the link; private when you say so, then visible only to you and assistants you have connected. Every change records who made it.

An example

What a note looks like.

Illustrative example Invented records, shown to explain the product. Not a real member.

NoteHagi teabowl, Yamane kilnKept 4 March · in “Ceramics” · publicSoft glaze, a lip that pours well. From a small kiln we found by chance.

What a note proves, and does not

Plainly.

Proves

  • A note proves you thought it worth remembering, in your own words.

Does not prove

  • A note does not prove you own the thing. An ownership record does.
  • A note does not prove you recommend it. A warrant does.
  • A note in a plan does not prove you bought it on the trip.

The other records

Each with its own page.

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