Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Learn Anything White Paper

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 76 posts

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#13

Post by balazsdavid987 »

Great initiative, but how it is different from a collection of links for subject X? The mindmap approach is fancy but does it deliver more value than a simple tree-like folder structure (especially on mobile)? Again, I think that's a great idea but I'm not sure about the execution.

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#14

Post by fiatjaf »

I've seen "Learn Anything" links submitted here many times and every time I open them and conclude I don't like this approach -- it seems like a worse Google.

But I dislike even more the fact that now there is a "whitepaper" with "abstract" and "conclusion". I didn't read it, though.

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#16

Post by nikivi »

canercandan wrote: post #15

Sounds like the UI and the underlying mind map presentation are very different from the one illustrated in the youtube video.

It is. We recently released a big update to the Website that included a complete overhaul in design. We will make a new video and upload it very soon.

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#18

Post by nikivi »

balazsdavid987 wrote: post #13

Great initiative, but how it is different from a collection of links for subject X? The mindmap approach is fancy but does it deliver more value than a simple tree-like folder structure (especially on mobile)? Again, I think that's a great idea but I'm not sure about the execution.

Thank you. There is a lot of value in a simple tree-like folder structure as you say. It is easier to navigate and plays well with mobile.

However, one of our goals with the website is not just finding the resource that you need to learn some topic. But exploring all the different topics and travelling from one topic to another. And we think that visualising these learning paths would really help with this goal. Granted that the current visualisation that you see live now on the website is not perfect. We hope to improve and make it better in the coming times.

If you do have ideas on how we can improve it, the project is Open Source and built with React so you can add the features and details that you think are missing to make it more perfect for you and everyone else.

We also provide an API so anyone can build a 'list-view' version of the website if anyone wants to.

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#19

Post by ropeladder »

Hey this looks really cool. Are you familiar with Metacademy? (https://metacademy.org/) (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683) Looks like you are trying to do a very similar thing, although they are maybe operating on a more conceptual level.

What have you used to build the site and do the layout? I'm always interested in how people are using graph-based UIs since I've been working on one myself over at Thicket.io: https://thicket.io. (you can browse a graph of academic paper citations and then connect papers to policy arguments) It's a real challenge to display lots of information coherently.

Re: Learn Anything White Paper

#20

Post by nikivi »

mgadams3 wrote: post #9

This is a great idea but lacks the critical concept of a "cohesive narrative". It's not enough just to know that the top resource for Javascript is Elequent Javascript and that the next 3 concepts are promises, ES6 and package managers (if that even is linearly correct in the first place). Each section needs a summary of how it connects to the node before and after it, which obviously should be edited by the communit…

Summaries of topics are a planned feature we hope to add in the future. We also hope to add user made 'notes' on each of the resources so anyone can see what other people think of the resource or link before visiting it.

And we agree that the branching of one topic to another can be done in a better way. We hope to add features for users to be able to not only add resources but also create new 'nodes' and create and add new topics.

Post reply on HN