Uni-Versum
You know more than your tools can hold. The connections between your projects, your collaborations, your references, your ideas: you carry them in your head because no tool captures them. Your information is scattered across dozens of systems that do not talk to each other. And the only thing connecting them is you.
Uni-Versum is an architecture for solving this. Not another app; a pattern. A personal system of interconnected workspaces, organized from your perspective, where relationships have meaning and boundaries protect focus without destroying connections. Sovereign, distributed, connected.
The name is Latin: one verse, one turn of the gaze. Your knowledge, your relationships, your work, seen from your point of view.
This is an early draft, not a versioned release. The ideas are live: sections will be added, restructured, and rewritten as the architecture itself evolves. If something resonates, or if something is wrong, we would love to hear from you.
The argument
- The problem: why personal information systems are broken
- The failed solutions: what has been tried and why it does not work
- The model: the architecture and its four pillars
- The boundary: the fractal pattern that repeats at every scale
- The living system: how workspaces relate like organs in a body
- The vocabulary: how semantic precision turns information into knowledge
- The whole: what changes when the system works
Coming next
- Building it with Obsidian: a practical guide to implementing the architecture with Markdown vaults
- The machine layer: JSON-LD, semantic web standards, and the two-interface principle in practice
- A story: characters you know well build a Uni-Versum from scratch (a narrative walkthrough)
Explore
- Schema vocabulary: the language for defining vocabularies
- Domain vocabulary: the concepts of the model
- The graph: the registry, visualized (coming soon)