4. Antientropic organizers

4.1 Definition

Information entropy in digital documents corresponds to a feeling of disorientation, fragmentary information, uncertainty and increased abstraction compared to the paper medium. Several organizers are designed to combat entropy in digital documents. They facilitate orientation within the document and its mental representation, to avoid the "cognitive overload" and "disorientation" common to these environments. All these organizers can be used in conjunction with each other.

Antientropic organizers can be defined as all devices whose main purpose is to order information in order to improve its flow and facilitate the mental representation of its structure. These organizers can be divided into two distinct categories: on the one hand, those designed...