Knowledge management

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Use_phones_to_collect_and_triage%2C_not_(usually)_to_read

Use phones to collect and triage, not (usually) to read

https://twitter.com/jborichevskiy/status/1245559381560721408

@jborichevskiy: This is @RoamResearch in a nutshell. Not having to dig around for that note, that link, that whatever - allows things to flow with wonderful speed.

https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

I stopped trusting my memory a long time ago, and I hate the feeling of stuff slipping through the cracks.

also need some search engine

https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-rise-of-personal-knowledge-management-tools

Yeah, maybe I'm not a typical person - but I collect, parse & use a lot of data, so I really need my stuff well organized.

I think Org transcends the idea of a wiki.  What is a wiki, anyway?  Documents with links to themselves.  Org does that and much more.
For myself, I keep information in several Org files.

* Information that doesn't change much, that I need to refer to now and then, that fits in a hierarchy, goes in `reference.org`.
* Things I come across randomly that I want to record for later (e.g. web pages, snippets, quotes) goes in `cpb.org` (for commonplace book) in a datetree; I can find it later with Org search tools, including `helm-org-rifle`.
* Appointments that are independent of other entries go in `calendar.org`.
* Stuff I need to refile goes in `inbox.org`, but I'm trying to get in the habit of putting things in `cpb.org` instead of putting them in a massive inbox file, thinking that I'll refile them later; I never do, so I might as well put them in a datetree, which at least organizes them chronologically rather than a giant, flat list.
  * This includes archived web pages, which I now capture with `org-web-tools-attach-url-archive`.  Sometimes I also capture the plain-text readable parts of web pages with `org-web-tools-read-url-as-org` or directly into a capture template with `org-web-tools--url-as-readable-org`.
* Most project and task stuff goes in `main.org`.
* Personal log/journal/diary-type entries go in `log.org`.
* Transient stuff goes in `temp.org` (which is excluded from the git repo I keep Org files in).
* Things I'm working on right now and want to keep in front of me (sort of like a sticky note on a monitor) go in `now.org`, which I access and manage with `org-now`.

Hope that helps!

Remember, Org is a platform for building your own system.  Take it easy, take your time, enjoy the ride.  Emacs and Org are software for the rest of your life.

although I'm gonna need to disable html export bits then

So much good stuff in the upcoming Memex 2.1.
 Add all open tags to lists and tags via the sidebar
 80% less resource usage
 Tons of performance improvements (no more fans from hell)
 More stability

I have been using Memex for more than a year now. Here are the things that really annoy me
- occasional freezing and sudden disappearance of your bookmarks
- no real way to programmatically access your Memex database. I know they have released the storage backend, but the lack of helpful documentation is a deal-breaker.
- lack of collaborative annotation (the way Hypothesis does)
- only few results in search results!

or translate the data into other data models, like the open annotation data model.

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
in context

Show HN: Fraidycat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545878

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1129788853189955584

I gave up on the idea of reliably saving web pages in PDF.
I use now "SingleFile", a Firefox or Chrome extension that helps to save a complete page (with CSS, images, fonts, frames, etc.) as a single HTML file.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

There's a funny response curve: folks who are super-diligent about note-taking practices or building simulations seem to generally end up with less insight than their somewhat-less-diligent neighbors.
Maybe it's a explore/exploit thing? Or maybe just a wonk/gestalt thing?
https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1211487901386543106

https://twitter.com/szymon_k/status/1229455411654340609

published muninn - set of cli tools, and vim plugin, for managing my personal flat-file markdown-based wiki, including @RoamResearch
-like backlinks, todo management, minimal web ui, and more!

https://szymonkaliski.com/notes/thinking-by-writing/

from ip Digital Tools I Wish Existed

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1283178647449333761

@Conaw: I love @tangjeff0 and @AthensResearch, love that @jethroksy and @jevakallio have taken Roam ideas into new ecosystems - bc those ecosystems now push new frontiers and build commons, like with this!

Local cache would definitely be the (easiest) way of solving it. Tools like Memex [0] are most of the way there.
But a text-only copy on my local device isn't great if the content had special formatting in presentation. Also, it misses out on images or embedded videos. That's where something like ArchiveBox [1] comes in.
> ArchiveBox takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more).
But really what I'd like to see at some point is an opt-in community tool where every page I visit that fits a certain criteria (URL, topic, special mark by me, etc) is fully cloned and uploaded to IPFS [2] for anyone interested in that topic to find and use later - regardless of what happens to the source content. Definitely a host of legal issues around this, but not impossible.

0 - https://worldbrain.io/
1 - https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
2 - https://ipfs.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=h0p3
huh, this guy uploads his mind onto wiki

Pdfgrep? -n option prints page

perhaps rely on file hashes/some sort of fingerprints (e.g. meta hash) ? that way I can mark it immediately
and track files in some tool

or, store the fingerprints

https://github.com/andersju/zzzfoo

https://hyp.is/RRB1jBTgEemGgbunD33LHQ/medium.com/the-personal-knowledge-management-saga/the-personal-knowledge-management-saga-part-1-ae9bdc575ded

it has some sort of fingerprint in the state.json too
so it handles moves and renames fine
cool, the filename is just unchanged, so it only uses the fingerprint
ok, can even tag in polar as well

http://deferentialgeometry.org
interesting wiki, very cool generally, but sad you can't easily jump to specific entries

isearch, helm-swoop
interesting, i'm pretty much doing everything she mentions in the comment

https://github.com/matthewmueller/x-ray

A SublimeText3 package featuring ID based wiki style links, and tags, intended for zettelkasten method users. Loaded with tons of features like inline image display, sophisticated tag search, note transclusion features, support for note templates, bibliography support, support for multiple panes, etc. to make working in your Zettelkasten a joy

http://www.markwk.com/migrate-evernote-plaintext.html

https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies

https://physicstravelguide.com/start

Liquid Text (@LiquidTextCorp) has a great feature allowing you to "scrunch" up pages of PDFs to quickly compare what you're reading with something earlier. (The correct way to do split screen IMO) I find myself trying to do this with web browsers now. It really is a nice feature.
https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/1103368220314988545

https://blog.relatris.ch/2017/05/30/a-very-brief-introduction-to-personal-knowledge-management

https://opensemanticsearch.org/etl

Open Semantic ETL toolkit for data integration, data analysis, document analysis, information extraction & data enrichment
Open source frameworks for data integration, document processing, information extraction, data analysis, merging & combining data, content enrichment and data enrichment pipelines

https://github.com/howardyclo/Digestant

Modules for effectively digesting data from Twitter and Reddit using ML, NLP and statistics.

https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain

Having multiple brains
You can have multiple brains simply by having more than one brain folder.

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi-scripts/tree/master/rofi-finder

rofi  -show find -modi find:~/.local/share/rofi/finder.sh

ugh. it blocked the UI while it was searching :(

http://neonion.org
Semantic bit is kinda interesting

You may also be interested in [GNU Hyperbole](https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html).

https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/HY-WHY.html

http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448

https://twitter.com/schlagetown/status/1191814458957418497

Petition to rebrand "personal knowledge management" > "personal librarianship"

-broader remit (more to gain from reading than "knowledge")
-sounds cooler & friendlier
-could be a good theme / brand for http://antilibrari.es!

(con: "personal librarian" has another meaning…)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642289

I have thought about these issues a lot; especially lately. With regards to being able to scrape your data or just get your data back from 3rd party's, I think that's a losing battle. You need to be in control of your data before it gets to them. Web sites and APIs are constantly changing and sometimes just disappear. This idea of polling for changes seems very brittle and would never be up to date.

What I picture is an a program that you use to store your own microblogs, blogs, contacts, comments, etc. and then you publish to whoever from that app via their API or crawling.

Imagine you just created a new microblog entry. You can now either post to your Twitter, Mastodon, etc. accounts with the click of a button. You would have to poll for replies though and it would be up to you to store them if you wished (you probably want to if you are storing your replies). As an added benefit you could see the replies in one place instead of bouncing between two sites.

The point is, when you create the data, it's yours first. Then if you want to, you can post it other places. Tools like this are abundant for businesses, but we don't seem to build tools for actual people anymore.

E.g. I'm going through show hn and ask hn
I have to vote without checking out sometimes, otherwise the link gets buried
Wish there were tags or smth similar to prioritize

Mastodon, of course! #Mastodon is consistently the №1 hashtag people used, according to a Trendbot that tracks trending hashtags.

The API is supposed to be released soon. I intend to either build a backup workflow myself or use other tools that will get developed then.

https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp

This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107053

or, only mark as todo when I've seen it. I guess makes more sense

https://twitter.com/blakeir/status/1236086912659660800
@blakeir: Request for Startup:
A bookmark app that auto-triggers to save when I take a screenshot.
My phone’s camera roll is full of interesting sites, stories, tweets, Reddit posts, etc. that I always come back to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/x2wue/tips_on_using_the_remembrance_agent/

https://reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/g06uu9/orgzly_workflow_showcase/fnbou8l?context=3

https://twitter.com/rektide/status/1246848335379652608

@rektide: @mpweiher @johnelliottDC your essay resonates a lot with me. i think the biggest most overwhelming thing for me is that it feels like software has gotten no more approachable.
folks like the @malleablesys seem like rare beacons in the dark, less interested in big bang of dev & more in adaptability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grblovrflowerrr

Thinking about humans, computers, and humans talking to computers.

https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr
I guess could use it for some pdf extraction?

https://karl-voit.at/

https://twitter.com/vgr/status/738449044742115328

1/ There are some interesting lessons in the failure of bookmarking as a category

https://github.com/jethrokuan/braindump/

knowledge repository managed with org-mode and deft. https://braindump.jethro.dev/

A "hierarchical spreadsheet" that is a great replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases.

https://twitter.com/kwharrison13/status/1275117874911211523

@kwharrison13: @L1AD @deeeepka @azeem @RoamResearch @Conaw I use it as a personal CRM and it’s never been better because I can have people in context with my thoughts. As I’m reading an article I can just tag their name in a note I take and next time I’m on a call with them I have those in my side bar as talking points.

sfs-recoll

Hey folks there's a server for knowledge management, the idea is for it to be tool agnostic and to help the different communities exchange workflows and ideas. Check it out:

[https://discord.gg/3WY3ZqN](https://discord.gg/3WY3ZqN)

https://twitter.com/the_very/status/1223022048945016832

Google desktop app was able to inject a lot of local/private data into search results but discontinued in 2011 :(

https://twitter.com/ShuOmi3/status/1240985230229430272

New Video:
Combining Note-Taking and Spaced Repetition (SR)
I talked about:
1. Integrating SR questions in permanent notes
2. adding SR questions while journaling
3. learning new words and phrases
4. using quick capture for SR

The API allows for parsing text into spreadsheet tables, summarizing email discussions, expanding content from bullet points, and more.

https://twitter.com/mekarpeles/status/1281494830372335619

@mekarpeles: Write things down. Leave notes. Make checklists. Review periodically. Keep logs. Record everything. Make backups. Keep a Zettelkasten. Use a memex. Date & tag documents. Connect and map like ideas. Keep a central index. Decentralize. Make things content addressable.

My takeaway from the recent trend in articles talking about how great the Zettelkasten method is:

Document what you do, as if you were describing your work and/or learning to a stranger. That stranger is you, in 6 months to 5 years time.

found that answer in google
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7607/export-properties-blocks-with-org-mode

suggests looking at org-export-with-properties

ok, SPC j v org-export-with-properties

ends up at ox.el

select org-export-with-properties and SPC RET for swoop 1

swoop through, nothing

SPC s d for directory search

aha! ox-publish.el

and finally swoop to org-export–skip-p in ox.el
so apparently it sets property-drawer and calls something else with the context?
SPC s d – aha, bunch of files including ox-html!

(property-drawer . org-html-property-drawer)

and we finally found the guilty party

(defun org-html-property-drawer (_property-drawer contents _info)
"Transcode a PROPERTY-DRAWER element from Org to HTML.
CONTENTS holds the contents of the drawer. INFO is a plist
holding contextual information."
(and (org-string-nw-p contents)
(format "<pre class=\"example\">\n%s</pre>" contents)))

https://github.com/alraban/org-recoll

in your tweets/toots etc there are prompts for longer materials form discussions with other people

https://pinboard.in/u:greenireland/b:fe3b28f85645

A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management

https://pinboard.in/u:nhaliday/b:5a4a0ef4c347

Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software? | Hacker News

https://pinboard.in/u:gnf00x/b:5fa11ae78c6b

Knowledge Management
km
28 days ago by gnf00x  copy to mine

https://pinboard.in/u:gnf00x/b:50bdb59f7dbe

Knowledge Management Systems: The Ultimate Guide
km
4 weeks ago by gnf00x  copy to mine

https://twitter.com/meshachthomas/status/1237247575650004994

hell to the yes. Roam is so powerful it needs to be at the OS level and maybe beyond.
Robot face
I saw mercury OS and immediately thought of Roam, it just intuitively fit.

then you build a graph based on the property. your notes aren't scattered across the filesystem that way
now and then you can overview the notes based on this property and merge them if necessary
or maybe it's a thing enclosed in {}? but then it's tricky to process by org-mode
org maybe [] anchor?

rga ipa . --rga-adapters=+pdfpages,tesseract -g '*.jpg'

could add a ripgrep config for image type??

https://twitter.com/davidklaing/status/1248886149625438208

I'm stunned by @andy_matuschak
's notes at https://notes.andymatuschak.org—both their content and their form.

I'm taking inspiration for my own site. I know almost nothing about web development, but yesterday I figured out how to make previews for internal links. Next up, backlinks!

enkiv2 avatar enkiv2 2 hours ago | link |

I am. I worked on the version covered in this article, and also on the previous release. Since 2014, another (totally independent) web-based version has been released.

wow that's fascinating

Spatial Software
in context

This used to be built-in to google itself. You could choose to block a site from future results from any results page. But they killed it, along with forum search, code search, usenet search, and so many other useful things.

god damn its nice to be able to just type a few keywords from a title into zotero's search instead of having to remember what shitty filename i saved something under

@andy_matuschak: Some people collect stamps; I’ve been collecting unusual applications of spaced repetition systems.
I realized today that I haven’t yet solicited the power of Twitter here! What weird use cases have you found?
My running list: notes.andymatuschak.org/zrs5Gn...

https://twitter.com/cj_pais/status/1280315415491559424
@cj_pais: Some initial ideas for 'feeds' I will be generating
stream.cjpais.com/feeds.html
I'm thinking that these 'deeper'/semantic feeds will provide insight, especially in a collaborative environment

right, def need to try it out, seems it has publishing or something?

Alright, it's alive!
3,000+ words on @RoamResearch, including why it's better than Evernote / Notion, and how I'm using it.
https://t.co/FGkbjf51On
TOC includes:
1. Why Roam?
3. Roam as a Second Brain
4. Roam for Productivity
5. Limitations
6. Getting Started
cc @Conaw

https://twitter.com/nateliason/status/1214943106581385216

http://www.keepingfoundthingsfound.com/book

@nicknikolov @marcinignac @context_ing Yes, they get modified in-place. I run the backlinks janitor at night. I also have this little bot, which I've published: https://t.co/mOy7RIsnn9
https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1154904280853204992

https://chame.co

Most of my personal data is managed using the excellent git-annex.

How to read non-fiction books:
1. Read first 30%
2. Stop & save highlights to a digital notes app
3. Add summary of how/when you think this material would be most useful
4. Search these notes next time you start a project
5. Finish reading books most likely to be useful

https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1165822145550663680

https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim

https://www.opensemanticsearch.org/download/

Open Semantic Desktop Search is the all in one package for desktop users as virtual machine image configured for search on your own desktop computer or laptop running on Linux, Windows or iOS for Mac.

Generate from backup

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212875

For events 1, 36, 52 and 79 there seem to be only one row.

There are some inconsistencies. Both events 46 and 80 count page turns, but they don't match. The count for 80 is always less than for 46. It is possible that 46 is counting screens and 80 page numbers. The value for 46 is what is on the stats screen for the current book.

When I have looked at ExtraData, it tends to be made up of a series of timestamps. I suspect that for events like 1020 and 1021, it is a list of the times when the event occurred. The pairs from the two events might be used to calculate the minutes per session and hours read. The only problem with that, is that the counts don't match for the book I am currently reading. I am confident of the meaning of the events, but there seems to be occasions when the close is not recorded.

Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a new knowledge management tool called [Gist](https://www.gistapp.com), for exploring data visually and adding context to digital collections.
Full disclosure—I'm the founder. Gist is a spin-off from [Schema](https://www.schemadesign.com), a data visualization design firm based in Seattle. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the tool—whether you think it would be useful, and how you would best describe it. Since it spans so many usecases, from KM for internal teams to "memory organizations" (museums, libraries, archives) and research organizations, finding a way to describe it to all audiences has been an interesting challenge.
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

https://twitter.com/juancampa/status/1030555210517815296

Dataspace is a fascinating concept by @natecull, reminds me a bit of @urbit and of course Membrane.

https://community.openlinksw.com/t/howto-building-personal-index-for-data-discovery/900
huh… found in KM tag

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/non-fiction-books-a-waste-of-time/

I make highlights & put bookmarks (using Kindle's built-in functionality, integrated with Goodreads) EVERY TIME I find something thought-provoking

http://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/orgbrain.html

Links are at times illogical
Naming conventions can be confusing
It’s a lot more work to create a knowledge representation with this tool than with a graphics-based tool (such as, say, Cmap Tools)
You can only visualize part of the representation at a time
Documentation is sketchy and sometimes misleading
I don’t think it scales well to very large maps and multiple maps
You’ll have to experiment a lot to get the hang of it

https://www.youtoofy.com

https://book.mindey.com/metaformat/0001-metaform-philosophy/0001-metaform-philosophy.html

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1209412548736385025

https://twitter.com/round/status/1240043788078211072
@round: 🐦🔗🔍 Twitter Links Extension beta update:
More UI improvements including the ability to switch between ‘Latest’ and ‘Top’ tweets. Also tested to work perfectly on @MicrosoftEdge.
Go ahead give it a spin and and send me your feedback!

https://t.co/btoBlnqk4e https://t.co/pEyI7N5EhY

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1157630882879926272

I usually talk about this in the context of personal knowledge management, about fun things like keeping track of quotes and riffs and blogpost ideas. Usually this is about me helping other (usually younger) scatterbrained people

https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner

https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment

e.g. search by 'whatsapp'

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1230685750837923840

@Conaw: Can't think of a better Hollywood clip to represent @RoamResearch and my life
"Don't you remember?"
"I wrote it down in my diary so I wouldn't HAVE TO REMEMBER"
But then, more importantly - what the grail quest is actually about - and what relationships w people on them is like twitter.com/ultimape/status/11...

https://twitter.com/RoamBrain/status/1232026686499090432

@RoamBrain: The RoamBrain website has just launched. It is an independent information and resource hub for @RoamResearch serving both people new to Roam and more advanced users. RoamCult RoamBrain.com

https://pinboard.in/u:nicknikolov/b:56c8b251c429

space and times
pkm

https://socialbearing.com/search/user
explore accounts; find best tweets

http://archive.org,https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Nice work! However it is possible to search through annotations using emacs pdf-tools, actually the search and filter functions are quite powerful in the annotation tablist, but you need to show contents first in the tablist buffer by customizing the pdf-annot-list-format variable (more info is found in issue 553: https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/553). The annotation tablist functionality is more or less only documented in its major-mode info. The code for the search function posted in that issue works nice also (actually it works better than searching via the tablist because there is a bug in the tablist search as mentioned in the comments of that issue).

Additionally I read that you don't like to use the mouse to add annotations. With the code in the pdf-avy-highlight.el file in this repository: https://github.com/dalanicolai/dala-emacs-lisp it is possible to highlight text and add comments (if you set to open them automatically by toggling the Pdf Annot Activate Created Annotations to "on" in the pdf-annot group in the customization menu) with only the keyboard using avy. You should should add your own shortcut for it (the one in the file is for use in Spacemacs). Unfortunately it does not work more conveniently than using the mouse. But I just like to point out the possibilities and versatility of emacs and pdf-tools...

I've been writing my own encyclopedia at http://memex.cc for 7 years. Read a lot of tech, econ, science, philosophy. Sharing the things that surprise me here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202850

https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper

https://twitter.com/posobin/status/1318696146508877834

@posobin: 1. Go to a web page.
2. Amplify it.
3. When people that follow you on ampie google for a relevant query, they will get that page on the right side of the google results. https://t.co/s7KuQP888G

Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22857551

post about desktop search engines?

eh, it's very simplistic..

https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine###

• manage playlists in exobrain
  
• sync playlists with youtube
  
• in each playlists description add a link to exobrain playlist
  

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

package Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages

http://www.drbunsen.org/pinborg
https://web.archive.org/web/20190210150519/http://www.drbunsen.org/pinborg/
Ok pretty cool, but I think it's a bit too elaborate for me

http://www.roxie.org/knownspacelinks.html

Today's desktops are two decades old. They were hot biscuits then, but stale and crumbly---and moldy---bread today.

https://indieweb.org/silo

https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/8vav52/so_i_just_discovered_org_mode_head_blown/e1mtayb/
interleave, org-noter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105

austil 1 day ago [-]
Hey, I'm on this journey too ! https://github.com/austil/datapuller

Is there a good @Pocket / @Instapaper alternative that reliably stores content for offline reading and handles PDFs properly? (Not sure about Instapaper, but Pocket only manages to render saved content ~70% of the time.)

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1153691264983764996

https://www.mindforger.com/

https://politepol.com/en
https://github.com/taroved/pol

https://hckrnews.com

I've been prefixing all my searches with reddit and then filtering by within last month or last year, and something seems to have changed lately. The reddit results say some number of days within the time constraint, but then the result is actually years old which makes it all pointless. This is literally the only way I search google right now because their results are so spammy otherwise.

https://www.gwern.net/Resorter

huh, this is somewhat similar to what I was doing with IMDB?

But it was definitely enlightening to me just how important the browsing(reading?) experience is to a knowledge-base, perhaps more than the writing experience. It's definitely the first thing I'll evaluate in future apps,  and something I'll think about how it can be done better.

https://twitter.com/yoshikischmitz/status/1203135482655232000

https://socialbearing.com/search/user/fortelabs
cool thing, might be good to overview accounts

I miss the days when I could search with AND, OR, +word and -word. Now if I search google with more than one word it no longer searches the internet. Instead it searches for ads that are somewhat similar to my query and features those. Any useful links on the first page are accidental.

flag all news sites (and medium)
anyone knows of something like it?

for (const z of $x("//a[@class='storylink']")) {
    const u = new URL(z.href)
    const host = u.hostname.replace('www.', '');
    const bad = new Set(['medium.com', 'bbc.co.uk', 'theregister.co.uk', 'techcrunch.com', 'reuters.com', 'uk.reuters.com', 'bbc.com', 'nytimes.com', 'theguardian.com', 'bloomberg.com', 'gizmodo.com', 'washingtonpost.com', 'theatlantic.com', 'buzzfeednews.com', 'theverge.com', 'npr.org', 'vox.com', 'mashable.com', 'edition.cnn.com', 'wsj.com', 'cnn.com', 'independent.co.uk', 'onezero.medium.com']).has(host)
    console.log(z)
    if (bad) { z.style.color = '#ff000044'; z.nextSibling.children[0].style.color = '#ff000044' } else {    console.log(host); }
}

https://www.w3.org/annotation/

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/105958/find-the-most-liked-tweet-from-an-account

Pop your handle into Social Bearing's Twitter Handle Search: Found Here. A dashboard should come up with all their tweets.

None
How I Built a Personal Knowledge Base for Myself
in context

None
Vision, Mission & Values — 2020 Update
in context

https://mobile.twitter.com/ankitmalik/status/1227636734478831618

Nova Boox Pro e-ink writer similar to remarkable?

https://web.hypothes.is/blog/fuzzy-anchoring/

https://luispuerto.net/blog/2019/02/10/discovering-hypothesis

https://web.hypothes.is/help/overview-of-the-hypothesis-system/

https://diegodlh.github.io/hfeed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjZSy8s2VEE&list=WL&index=61
eh, nothing too exciting

http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-knowledgebase

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/?src=search
doesn't seem like it can do specific predefined search terms

https://praxis.fortelabs.co/tagging-is-broken-11e46eb24979/

https://www.gwern.net/Search

> Most of your life is not fun
> Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't
I'm not sure what to say to this. Try to have more fun? :)

 > You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant
Empirically untrue, sadly. From reminiscing with friends, it's clear that both they and I have forgotten some of the best times, since I remember some of the best times and have forgotten others, and vice versa. I can remember that I had quite a bit of fun during the late eighties, but the vast majority of the detail is gone. When I've written down decade-old memories and looked at them a decade after that, it really, really often happens that I'm disturbed at how differently I remembered that event when I was halfway closer to it than now. Human memory is so sketchy and malleable that it's just barely useful at all. :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5285929

https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends#overview

Hi, thanks for that detailed comment and all the resources you linked! It'll take some time to look at all of them and transfer your knowledge to this project.
So I'm focused on developing Frontends, but I asked a friend who is very strong in building backends. We agreed that we have to try to develop a modern version org-mode with all the features we need.
Something like [https://remotestorage.io/](https://remotestorage.io/)  what [kureshii](https://www.reddit.com/user/kureshii/) mentioned. The base idea is to build a system based on Microservices which will be specialized in certain tasks, like file formats. But all of the services will be available through one unified API. And everybody can decide how they want to consume the data, we'll provide a JS Client Side Libary. E.g. I want a dedicated Notes and ToDo app, but also something an app to organize projects where I can See notes and todo lists in relation to a project. And due to the fact that everything will be Open Source everybody can build their own Microservice, eg to add a service to make iCloud files available.
And it'll be easy to set up because everything will be dockerized and hopefully up with only one command. And maybe in the long term we can think about a hosted version because I think that should be service everybody not only IT people should use. Yes, you lose the freedom to have everything on the server you want, but at least you have a centralized backup of all your data. And one of our focus topics will be an easy export function as markdown and if you want you could automize this to a 3rd party solution. But that's a long way to go :)
Due to the interest, I created a new Twitter account: [https://twitter.com/The\_Minerva\_](https://twitter.com/The_Minerva_)  and already a GitHub Org [https://github.com/Minerva-Development](https://github.com/Minerva-Development) .
I would be happy if we could stay in contact :)
Thank you!

PS: Yes we may reinvent the wheel, but we'll use what is already there, at least concepts and specs :)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

https://codearsonist.com/reading-for-programmers

Interleave mode nice, but only works for specific PDF file I'd imagine?

https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/131/129
hmm interesting.
TLDR: each knowledge item participates in a linked list called 'dimension'

https://www.inkandswitch.com/capstone-manuscript.html

http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_pdf.html

Editing and annotating

https://praxis.fortelabs.co/a-complete-guide-to-tagging-for-personal-knowledge-management/

three step process

https://physicstravelguide.com/start
pretty cool in detail guide

https://www.tagspaces.org/

• [2019-07-23] dunno, maybe it could be useful for photo tagging, but that's not too high of priority to me now
  

MiniSearch offers an auto-suggestion feature out of the box. For example, for the partial search “uni”, MiniSearch could suggest “university”, “unicorn”, etc. The suggestions are calculated on the actual documents, and sorted by relevance. This feature can be used to implement auto-completion, like in the demo application shown above. Lunr does not currently offer this feature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608287

You are my spirit animal.
I just got a polar/readwise/orgmode/Anki setup together and I'd love to use this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949154

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

https://github.com/RomanPlusPlus/mindfilesResources

You can also subcribe to changes using RSS.

huh, didn't know that!!

https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html

In .kobo/Kobo/Kobo ereader.conf, add [FeatureSettings] ExportHighlights=true

http://www.acuriousmix.com/about
summary of software they use

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21403294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332957

https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/evjtlz/build_the_ultimate_personal_knowledge_management/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659876

What I see missing is an ecosystem of interoperable tools.
It would be great if I could have a location/format in which all my digital knowledge is stored. And then be able to use different tools which support multiple processes/flows:

- a flow for discovering content
- a flow for archiving the highlights I take on the web
- a flow for writing notes

it would be great if I could change any tool while keeping the flow intact.
The only thing that somehow mirrors this is Evernote + Readwise + IFTT. There are tons of integrations that allow you to populate Evernote from tweets, Highly, Kindle highlights, etc. What I would love is if I could easily swap Evernote with any other editor (e.g. Bear) without changing much.
I wouldn't mind paying for these tools I would just like this personal knowledge software to work in a way in which you can natively add blocks/functionality to it. Most of them have huger vendor lock in.

interesting approah; "content discovery flow" seems like a good post title?

Yes, this siloing stops me from using annotation features "native" to each app and format as such as well.
Instead, I prefer to exfiltrate information from the silos(apps, formats, etc) and put them into my note taking system. Then I can do highlights, annotations, etc. on my own terms and also get the benefits of centralization such as searching and linking(the OP has another post describing their own system, which is pretty cool[1]). Currently I'm using Notion, which is also a silo of its own, but it's one that gives me a lot of control over how I lay my information out(and an escape plan from).
There are a lot of perspectives on this issue with data silos and walled gardens. But I'm of the opinion that it's a fairly bad state for all of us "end users". Computers to me are about infinite flexibility and malleability, but ironically the tools we have for annotation and remixing are in practice worse than what we have in the physical world. Reading a book in the physical world, I can converse with the author simply by jotting marginalia with my pencil. It's fluid, intuitive, and the medium of paper encourages it(in fact it can't help but be mutated by my use!: pages get bended, stained, torn, etc.). If I want to go further I can add post-it notes to mark interesting passages, I can xerox some pages and create subsections, if it's a magazine I can just tear them all out! That kind of flexibility just isn't available on a computer.
I think it's worth thinking really hard why we're in this state, especially since computing pioneers were actually very optimistic that data and computing would be way more personally malleable than it is now(I've been working on a small comic on this theme myself[2]). For example, check out this short demo[3] of Smalltalk where Alan Kay hooks up a single frame from an animation of a bouncing ball to a painting program, to modify that one frame while also monitoring the loop. Smarter than paper, but way more flexible.

[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html
[2] https://twitter.com/yoshikischmitz/status/1188455560045158400
[3] https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=607

basically my thoughts

• [2020-12-29] ugh shit. seems that it only supports document level granularity
  
  • [2021-12-19] hmm ok, it supports anchors now!! https://github.com/jameslittle230/stork/issues/159
    

I've had this existential crisis with browser bookmarks few years ago, which made me switch to Pinboard

prompts for possible post about bookmarks…

if you search the obsidian forums for Zotero best practices it's prob the best repository for all of that! I keep meaning to write all this out but haven't had the chance

Agree with your sentiment. Contextuality and Applicability are definitely two main components when it comes to knowledge acquisition. But there are people who just derive pleasure from learning, irrespective of whether the concepts are connected or disjoint, and I think it is very important that we have all variety of people, and encourage them into pursuing what gives them satisfaction.

Okular

https://twitter.com/tasshinfogleman/status/1083157910257975298

tags are useful as a secondary organizational method, especially as the # of notes you have increases. don’t tag everything ahead of time. wait until you have many notes to process, then build structure. you can create custom tags specific to your profession or big projects.

The problem (IMHO) around notes, scheduling, and productivity apps is that they have only subset of features that a given user needs. User workflows are very unique and diverse. Some may prefer calendar integration, some may not. Others may prefer inline image support while some only require text. The examples are endless. It seems inevitable that a note/scheduling/productivity app can only bloat user experience while being in the infinite race to onboard features their users/competitors demand.

As Erik's tweets get influence, I have to comment, with the risks of what is happening around networked text (Ex Roam, OrgRoam, OpenRoam, Athens, Dumbledore.

table with comparison of note taking apps: roam/logseq/dendrom/org-roam etc

It's even more ambiguous at this point, given the useless new 'BERT' NLP system used for generating results-- it routinely ignores terms from the query, even ones with obvious semantic importance, so results are often entirely irrelevant to the complete requested term set.