Wiki Dots

I call them the Wiki Dots. I think they would improve the way we interact with information, enriching the content available for everyone.

Context: We often get cool ideas when we read, but -as we lack the means- we sometimes just write them down on book pages that later get lost. Thoughts always lead to more thoughts, and that leads to more content. Wouldn't it be great to let the world (the Internet) read what a line of text made you think on a link placed next to it?

Idea: It would work like this: when you come up with an idea while reading on a digital device (hopefully everything will be a digital device in the future), you write it down next to the original text and it gets added as a dot next to the text that inspired you. This dot would be updated in the original version of the article/book that's available to everyone, so that everyone gets the chance to see your thought the first time they read the book. It would be great if people would be able to post not only thoughts but links to sites and photos next to what they read.

Benefits: Every single page of many articles/books would end up having tons of dots surrounding the original text, making them much richer and letting people share their ideas for others to see and build more content upon them. If this gets massified, we would be interacting with much richer material, creating some sort of wiki of every single text available everywhere.