2025-05-31T23:26:14Z

Conventional ways of addressing within a document (page numbers, chapter/section/paragraph numbers) are brittle and will break with changes to a document's content—or even its formatting.

Digital document formats tend to have stable identifiers for addressable elements (at least scoped to the document itself), but they tend not to expose these.

Documents have poor internal addressing.

Dorian Taylor

Sense Atlas Rationale

While tables of contents, bibliographies, and indices can be reliably generated, moving content around breaks all but coarsest-grained references from other information resources.