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A product development and problem-solving workshop [1] for middle school kids. It involves storytelling and hands-on exercises around ideation and solution development, culminating…

I explored tools to export/interchange PDF to HTML in the KnowledgeGarden app, but the results were not optimal, suffering from non-standard layout and poor typesetting of equation…

Capturing and visualizing research knowledge is personally an exciting space. I feel that deep reading and absorbing content continues to be challenging, due to the ever-increasing…

I built on top of the in-browser PDF document-reading app to help me curate, visualize, and recall personal knowledge as I read and annotate research papers; the app extracts data …

Thanks for the nice references. When I read documents, I look to organize and link information in a way that helps me recall its context. Another realization is that papers are oft…

The approaches for information organization versus info retrieval are often different. For example, we mostly read content based on whatever fixed structure it's in, be it a blog p…

Nice idea and interesting space. I tried 'show counts by type_1 ordered by occurrences' and it showed a bar chart, as expected. But 'show statistical distributions' or 'show someth…

Happy Friday! I have built a document-reading app to help me curate, visualize, and recall my knowledge as I read and annotate research papers - https://www.KnowledgeGarden.io The …

This is really nice - the simplicity of the interface and ability to read papers without sacrificing the readability of math equations is awesome. Congrats on publishing it. Do you…

Provenance, as a concept and specification, is well established in digital domain, as described by W3C's PROV specification https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ Ability to trace, a…

Thanks for sharing! I was also curious if you apply your paper-pen markup style to digital content. Btw, is there a way to send private/direct messages here on HN? thanks.

Neat! interesting to see your context management system. Thanks for sharing your notes. I like to sketch ideas, so use pencil so that I can erase and refine. Curious, how do you ma…

Using a multi colored pen has helped me mark important information and add my personal context. For example, during meetings or brainstorming I'll mark up information using differe…

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing. I've been using Tiddlywiki over TiddlyDesktop (used on Win and Mac Os) and it suffices most of my needs (except drag-n-drop images and web scraping…