Very cool! Hope you might consider adding a Firefox extension too
Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
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#12I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more effort remembering to save information and create proper back-links than I was actually retaining any information. I've recently started working on something similar as an excuse to learn machine learning, but it's still mostly vaporware outside t…
Vaporware is better than going nowhere! (Get it...noware...haha).
Congrats on getting started.
I agree with Obsidian - I think that most people forget the maintenance time it takes to build a lifelong Knowledge Management System.
I like your idea - document similarity is a well known area in ML.
Feel free to take my Chrome Extension and use the parts where it tracks key paragraphs in an article (using a user's click/ hover/ attention behaviour) and use that as the corpus for your ML similarity models.
Intuitively it makes more sense to run document similarity on key points/ paragraphs than the whole web page.
If you want the whole web page though, there's code in the Chrome Extension that use's Mozilla's readability lib (https://github.com/mozilla/readability) to purify the web content.
Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
#13I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more effort remembering to save information and create proper back-links than I was actually retaining any information. I've recently started working on something similar as an excuse to learn machine learning, but it's still mostly vaporware outside t…
Vaporware is better than going nowhere! (Get it...noware...haha). Congrats on getting started. I agree with Obsidian - I think that most people forget the maintenance time it takes to build a lifelong Knowledge Management System. I like your idea - document similarity is a well known area in ML. Feel free to take my Chrome Extension and use the parts where it tracks key paragraphs in an article (using a user's click/…
Thanks for the tip on the readability library. I don't have much experience with webdev, so my extension was just saving a local copy of whatever was returned every time the browser made a request, I should be able to cut down on storage space if I can use the readability library to skip saving things like trackers and images.
Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
#14I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more effort remembering to save information and create proper back-links than I was actually retaining any information. I've recently started working on something similar as an excuse to learn machine learning, but it's still mostly vaporware outside t…
I'm super interested in this area, with my own vaporware attempt at building it (fully abandoned, unlike yours).
I'm an ML engineer focused on NLP applications. Contact info in my profile if you ever want to chat, e.g. about different approaches for estimating document similarity.
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#15Very cool, even if I hate electron. :P
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#16Very cool! Hope you might consider adding a Firefox extension too
+1
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#17Very cool! Hope you might consider adding a Firefox extension too
there is another Memex project with a Firefox extension.
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#18Very cool, even if I hate electron. :P
It was my first time playing around with Electron! Overall pretty decent experience.
What makes you hate it if you don't mind me asking?
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#20This is really fantastic. I've played around with Obsidian periodically, but it's difficult to groom and maintain. This approach seems more manageable.
I'd like to start using this, but at the same time you likely won't be maintaining it.
Final point: we really need a memex/knowledge graph ecosystem with easily interoperable components (e.g. browser extensions, book highlighting, etc that can all feed into one of many viewers).