LiquidText on iOS seems to enable pulling out images, snippets, etc. as the author seems to want. Not sure what happens when that app eventually dies thought.
Digital Tools I Wish Existed
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#62> Content is published in a variety of formats including but not limited to images, sound files, videos, Google Drive docs, diagrams, long-from paywalled articles, PDFs, powerpoint presentations, and base 64 encoded blobs. One of the great disappointments I’ve had working in tech for 20 years now has been the way we’ve transformed the entire spectrum of human expression, which includes wildly different forms of art a…
You also hear people use “Intellectual Property” to refer to their favorite films. And extended conversations ranking revenues of different media franchises.
I’m sad that you seem to be the only commenter who is taken aback by the implicit commoditization here of not just art and entertainment, but also learning.
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#63I have been thinking about these questions as well. The gist is, it seems we need tools to manage data created from all the applications that we use. Today, there's so much data, that the most important tools are those that separate signal from noise. Some things that I have considered: - I like to read long articles on my e-paper reader, there are several services to do this. - I need all quotings from articles, boo…
> My whole knowledge base should be easily shared with other people. - I want to find others with similar interests to mine.
Yes! And I think this paves the way for an interesting collaborative knowledgebase as well.
Agreed on a missing workflow to bind everything together. Do you keep your annotations + notes in Memex? If so, do you add an external annotations (say, from ebooks) into it?
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#64I can't help thinking that resurrection of Google Reader (and RSS readers in general) and del.icio.us might help.
How popular was Google Reader really? I don’t think many people I know irl ever used it. There’s a handful of known or referenced RSS readers now. Combined they just aren’t that popular. I have a hard time buying that Google Reader was super popular. There’s a few bookmarking services now. Some startups like linked in the article. And Pinboard has been around for a long time. Delicious isn’t needed anymore. I use Lar…
The demise of Google Reader signalled the end of RSS.
RSS used to be a big thing in the 90s and early 2000s
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
How popular was Google Reader really? I don’t think many people I know irl ever used it. There’s a handful of known or referenced RSS readers now. Combined they just aren’t that popular. I have a hard time buying that Google Reader was super popular. There’s a few bookmarking services now. Some startups like linked in the article. And Pinboard has been around for a long time. Delicious isn’t needed anymore. I use Lar…
The demise of Google Reader signalled the end of RSS. RSS used to be a big thing in the 90s and early 2000s
That’s my point. It’s a huge talking point amongst geeky crowds. Is there any data to point to that though? It has always felt to me that Google Reader was never that big. Niche crowds made it seem like a huge deal though. I could be wrong. I’d just like something concrete.
Or are you saying it was a signal of the end for the specific niche geeky crowds? If so then I guess that’s my point. Google Reader doesn’t and never did move the needle that much.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been emailing links to myself tagged with a one word keyword for the last decade. They focus on things that I or my (unconceived, unborn) son or daughter would like to read, learn or understand “later”. I have about 10k sitting in my inbox (including this one) that I plan to convert into a critical path and consumption order once I take a sabbatical. Sometimes the best systems are the simplest.
What kind of algorithm/system do you think you'd use to convert them into a consumption order?
Create a rough dependency graph and perform a topological sort, potentially skipping, down weighting, or skimming nodes that are onerous to consume but of dubious value (e.g. a link that’s a review about a long textbook that isn’t fundamental to a space).
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#67Hode[1] (the Higher Order Data Editor), which is free, solves some of these problems. (I wrote it. It's still evolving but it works already.) > metadata is hard Hode lets you encode and search any kind of information -- entities, relationships bewteen entities, relationships between relationships, relationships of any arity (number of members). Hash, the language in which one adds and searches for data in Hode, is ve…
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting. I want to look into it deeper.
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#68Hode[1] (the Higher Order Data Editor), which is free, solves some of these problems. (I wrote it. It's still evolving but it works already.) > metadata is hard Hode lets you encode and search any kind of information -- entities, relationships bewteen entities, relationships between relationships, relationships of any arity (number of members). Hash, the language in which one adds and searches for data in Hode, is ve…
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting. I want to look into it deeper.
Sweet! Ask me anything! The issue tracker[1] needs more activity :)
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#69Thanks for writing this. This is awesome. 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 cou…
I like your abstraction of the different flows. Definitely agree the key is not a one-size-fits-all approach but instead much improved interoperability between the user's preferred tools.
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#70Kinda fits into this discussion, but I want playlists for netflix, prime, disney+, hulu, what ever, but not just running down a season, but for example a set of Christmas episodes. FXX has done some of this with the Simpsons, but I want to see other viewers lists and the possibility of across shows.