Library
This article is based on Immaterial 1.1, an extension to the data structure is planned
User data in Immaterial is structured without many boundaries, so that we can facilitate different ways and levels of investigation into the self and the world: from mood management and improvement, to crisis prevention and overcoming bad habits, even to ontology or epistemology.
In Immaterial we look at all data as concepts: units of information which can be related to other units of information on different levels and under different heuristics. If you can name it, you can enter it. Currently, you can fit concepts into either feelings , thoughts, effects, events, ideas or world views, which can be linked through different types of relations, each with unique rules. Soon we'll support custom data and relation types for even further extension!
Seeing the interconnected web of one's own interpretations superimposed on what they perceive of the world makes it easy to see what brings about noise, negativity or misconceptions, and how our own current processes can lead us to perpetuate certain habits. Merely piecing together the patterns we have gone through makes us see them clearer and operate from a higher vantage point.
We have a few proposed ways of looking at and mapping data if you need any ideas:
The self
With feelings and thoughts you can map your inner machinations. They can be linked to any other concept in your data in order to describe what brings them up, where they lead and more.
If the heuristics of mapping your experience to either of those sound counter-intuitive, you can instead create a worldview for the self, or one or more ideas and relations between them to describe the self and its operations as you see them.
The world
With worldviews, ideas and events you can map different networks of ideas like religions, philosophical views, your own perception or any other different way of seeing the world. Ideas and events don't need to be necessarily tied to a worldview.
Different ideas, views and events can be related and cross referenced so correlations and common threads between one or more can be easily found.
The impact or effect of concepts on your being and the world can be mapped using effects (e.g. this idea is inspiring, this one is limiting, etc) or through relations between objects (e.g. triggered by, origin of, related).
Wrap up
We're not pushing or promoting any specific views as to what life and humanity is, we instead offer different tools and approaches for users to find the right answers contextual to their lives at the time they need them, for which the current database is abstract and not pushing one ideology. We're certain that with your mind open you can drop some compelling yet fundamentally baseless concepts of the self and the world that are prevalent, negative and defeating.
You can filter and search through all your items by type in the Library tab. You also get to filter data by their source: not set/unknown, known or nothing.