tegwick 64796f7b3a research: Notion deep dive (closed block-DB SaaS, external REST API only, database-as-pages); UC-57/58/59
The closed/hosted/schema-rich extreme: everything is a block (UUID id,
type, properties, ordered child content, single parent), pages are blocks
and database rows are pages with a schema, Postgres-backed hosted SaaS.
Databases add typed properties + relations + rollups + formulas across
many views = the apex of wiki-page-as-structured-record. Extension model
has no in-app plugin runtime; the only extensibility is the external REST
API (+ webhooks 2026) inside a tight envelope (~3 rps, eventual
consistency, recursive child fetch, scoped/revocable per-page grants).
Adds the third attachment mode (external-API-only) alongside file-store
(Obsidian/TWiki) and in-engine host (Roam/XWiki); Notion enforces no
silent remote mutation via scoped grants. Added UC-57 (attach closed
external-API-only shard w/ operational envelope + scoped grant), UC-58
(typed database w/ schema+relations+views, no flattening), UC-59
(lossy-aware translation w/ fidelity report); enriched
UC-31/34/36/39/50/51/52/54/56. Boundary: one external-API candidate shard,
best as projection/mirror/overlay/backup, not a substrate and not the
federation layer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 13:44:09 +02:00
2026-05-15 21:23:05 +00:00

shard-wiki

Git-based Markdown wiki orchestrator and federation layer.

shard-wiki joins heterogeneous wiki-shaped page stores (shards) into a coherent information space while preserving provenance, capabilities, and history. It is an orchestration layer, not a wiki engine.

Status

Early-stage: Python scaffold, intent and specification groundwork, active design workplan. See SCOPE.md for current maturity.

Documentation

Document Purpose
INTENT.md Aspiration and boundaries
SCOPE.md What we achieve now
AGENTS.md Agent working guide
docs/repository-layout.md How this repo organizes information

Quick start

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Layout

research/     explorations (yymmdd-prefixed)
demand/       inbound unreviewed requirements
spec/         implementation specifications
workplans/    State Hubregistered tasks
docs/         stakeholder documentation
wiki/         collaborative knowledge (wiki UI when connected)
issues/       ticket mirrors
history/      archived material (yymmdd-prefixed)
Description
Git based markdown wiki orchestrator
Readme MIT-0 3 MiB
Languages
Python 89.6%
HTML 4.9%
CSS 1.9%
Perl 1.6%
Makefile 1.1%
Other 0.9%