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What is Eden Research?

Eden Research is a note-taking tool for networked thought that combines the benefits of EOS with pioneering tools like Roam Research, Athens Research, Notion, Obsidian, MindWeb, Lazy, and logseq.

Introduction

This article is organized into the following sections. Please note that this article is a work in progress and will be updated soon.

What is Eden Research?
Introductory Video
Why Eden Research?
The Future Internet
Exploring Networked Thought
Our Plan for Eden Research
Resources to Learn More

Roam Research
Athens Research
Logseq
Transclusion
Growth Trajectories
Open Source Code

Introductory Video

We created a video about Eden Research during a recent ideathon. You can watch this video from Dan Singjoy for an overview:

Why Eden Research?

For the past years, we’ve thought extensively about building collaborative community documents with graph-based ‘tools for networked thought’ such as Roam Research, Athens Research, Obsidian, Notion, and logseq.

These tools provide many profoundly helpful benefits that are not available in most writing apps, markup editors, and git tools. Unique functionalities of these tools include transclusion, back-linking, advanced querying, highly composable blocks, zoom-ability, and much more!

One way to understand these tools for networked thought is as ‘Microsoft Excel for Thoughts’. Excel spreadsheets empower people to cooperate with numbers. Tools for networked thought empower people to cooperate with thoughts, writing, and media. These tools can be used for any kind of thought, including scientific research, artistic creation, content production, personal journaling, journalism, and any other kind of thought that you can imagine.

Eden Research helps people and communities think much more clearly, effectively, and collaboratively!

Exploring Networked Thought

You can watch the following video for a brief introduction to Roam Research, which also provides a foundational understanding for Eden Research and other tools for networked thought.

The Future Internet

Tools for networked thought can provide the architecture for much of the future Internet.

These tools have only been on the market for the past few years and are in nascent stages as ‘single player’ note-taking tools, but they are rapidly growing into incredibly helpful tools for community cooperation. Tools for networked thought are already creating profound benefits for countless creators and the potential for empowering communities is thrilling!

To give you a small glimpse about the potential and excitement for these tools: Roam Research is one of the fastest companies in the world to reach a million dollars in annual revenues and recently raised seed funding at a $200 million valuation from visionary investors including Tim Ferriss, Balaji Srinivasan, and Patrick Collison. There are now dozens of companies building open-source tools for networked thought and innovation is increasing at an exponential pace.

As the internet evolves, we believe that most websites, articles, chat apps, social media apps, note-taking tools, collaborative documents, and hypermedia experiences will integrate many features of these pioneering tools for networked thought.

The Plan for Eden Research

This new paradigm of pioneering tools is growing rapidly and there is an excellent opportunity to create value by innovating tools for networked thought with the power of EOS!

Currently there are several talented teams building open-source software for networked tools for thought, such as Athens Research and logseq. You can explore the popular open source code at the following links for the logseq repository and the Athens Research repository.

These tools have immense potential to benefit everyone, but there are currently three problems that are holding these tools back from reaching their full potential:

The learning curve of these tools is fairly steep and most people do not yet understand the benefits of networked tools for thought.

Quality education is required to help people understand the benefits of these tools, learn to use them, and integrate them into their workflows. There are already many passionate communities making great education to help people learn about these tools, but we need much more quality education to bring these tools to the mainstream and increase development capacity.

These tools are not yet tightly integrated with Web3.

These tools are reliant on corporate infrastructure with misaligned incentives and are currently missing out on many profound benefits that are possible with the power of EOS. For example, here are some ways that EOS can help empower these tools:

EOS can help decentralize the infrastructure of these tools and increase data redundancy, thereby reducing dependencies and increasing independence of all users

EOS can provide tokenization mechanisms to incentivize helpful thought, quantify helpfulness, and reward great contributions to community knowledge graphs. Participants may be able to earn community respect by adding content blocks that are appreciated and upvoted by other community members.

EOS can provide cooperative and governance mechanisms to help direct the creation of knowledge graphs. Useful synergies may include Eden+Fractal, Cignals, Ideathons, and DAMS.

The Plan

We plan to help educate communities about the benefits of networked tools for thought and EOS with Eden Research. In particular, we aim to connect open-source developers of networked tools for thought with Antelope developers and help each group understand how they can help each other.

Eden Research isn’t currently a software product, but open-source components are being developed rapidly by various communities and can be merged into an upcoming Eden Research product launch. We are providing education and designing a great brand experience to help people understand the benefits of these tools. In the coming months and years we aim to help inspire open-source developers to collaborate and build helpful Eden Research tooling for all.

Our plan is to improve education about these tools, foster the development of existing tools for thought, and innovate new products to help people think better. We believe that these initiatives will provide profound benefits for all, increase our collective sense-making abilities, and help create a much more enjoyable world for the future of humanity.

Resources to Learn More

Many tools for networked thought are available for free, so you can try easily try them for yourself to experience the profound potential and benefits of this new paradigm of networked thought. For example, you can try Athens Research, Obsidian, and logseq for free.

Each of these tools also have communities of passionate creators who make tutorials and answer questions to help people learn how to use them. You can explore the resources below to learn more about this fascinating toolset and how it may help you. Please note that many of the slides below were created last year and will be refined with newer information and designs soon. For the best experience, view these slides on a larger screen so that you can read all of the important details with small font.