Scrapbox and Architecture

• Thinking about page formatting and how to divide pages in Scrapbox is similar to designing the architecture of software or a database.

  • For example, the concepts of MVC and database normalization.

• Similarities:

  • In Scrapbox, if you gather all the text in one file, it becomes difficult to reference from external sources. However, if you divide it too much, it becomes complex.
    • This is similar to deciding how much to separate software code.
    • Dividing it into smaller parts is also similar to database normalization.
  • Both code and Scrapbox share the idea of “information being divided, having dependencies between them, and wanting to manage them in a human-readable way.”
    • Codebase and knowledge base.

• Differences:

  • Scrapbox is mostly directly operated by people, whereas databases can have different operations.
    • For example, in NoSQL databases like Firebase Realtime DB, there is an approach of not normalizing the data.
    • This approach may not make sense in Scrapbox.