A Universal Document is optimized to create, tell, and explore stories.
The current state is that multiple applications are used to create, tell, and explore stories, text documents, numerical analysis documents, and presentation documents.
Why not have a single universal document that can be used to create, tell, and explore stories?
Documents are composed of multiple components:
- Tables
- Charts
- Text
- Images
- Video
- Visuals
- Code
- Sequences
The general format for creating a story is to:
- write up the exploration
- analyze sources and data
- put the analysis together
- create a presentation of some format
What do the interactions look like?
Can components link to components in other documents?
Some components stand alone, other components depend on other components as sources of data. For example a Chart could depend on a Table and as the table changes the Chart changes. In this aspect a document is potentially fluid as the data backing the document changes.