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Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by crucialfelix » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 6:12 AM UTC

There is also https://getmemex.com/ which runs as a chrome extension.

My old personal KMS had a feature to load the local chrome history and display my activity on the daily timeline. I was mostly interested in understanding my day, recalling and to revisit.

Great experiment you have here, thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by ColinWright » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 7:23 AM UTC

This is unreadable for me, and I'd welcome any suggestions as to what I can do to my setup to make it readable by default. To see why, here's a section of screenshot:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/AnotherUnreadableSite.png

Unreadably light grey on white.

All suggestions welcome ... TIA.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by mkarliner » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 7:30 AM UTC

Could I add further constraint. These are really interesting ideas, I for one would be prepared to contribute to a project developing them.

Given the amount of investment in these systems, they need to sufficiently future proofed as to be useful 10 to 20 years from now.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by ComodoHacker » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #32

This is unreadable for me, and I'd welcome any suggestions as to what I can do to my setup to make it readable by default. To see why, here's a section of screenshot: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/AnotherUnreadableSite.png Unreadably light grey on white. All suggestions welcome ... TIA.

My first thought was it's because of adblocking. Turned out it's not.

If you're using Firefox, try View/PageStyle/No Style.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by ComodoHacker » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 7:45 AM UTC

I believe knowledge discoverability can only be solved with NLP. Parse every article a user reads, extract topics, keywords, key concepts and store it is whatever your storage is, in searchable format.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by ColinWright » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 7:59 AM UTC

ComodoHacker wrote: post #34

ColinWright wrote: post #32

This is unreadable for me, and I'd welcome any suggestions as to what I can do to my setup to make it readable by default. To see why, here's a section of screenshot: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/AnotherUnreadableSite.png Unreadably light grey on white. All suggestions welcome ... TIA.

My first thought was it's because of adblocking. Turned out it's not. If you're using Firefox, try View/PageStyle/No Style.

I am using Firefox ... where or what is "View"?

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by NickNaraghi » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

> Insight 3: Knowledge discoverability is a problem. Say your KMS is 5-10 years old with thousands of notes/ pieces of information, how do you sort through it?

I think this is one of the biggest problems in the space right now. We have smart inputs but not smart outputs.

Best case scenario, I would like to recommended knowledge based on the context of what I was working on or trying to achieve at any given moment.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by ComodoHacker » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:17 AM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #36

ComodoHacker wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought was it's because of adblocking. Turned out it's not. If you're using Firefox, try View/PageStyle/No Style.

I am using Firefox ... where or what is "View"?

It's the main menu. It's invisible now until you press Alt.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by martijnwalraven » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:27 AM UTC

hrishi wrote: post #22

This is a great concept, especially the link tracking. One of my early research papers was about a tab reorganisation UI that tracked the links you clicked to reorganise your tabs to follow your train of thought. In most cases, the flat organisation is the worst, whereas if you follow my pattern of clicking links and moving to different tabs over time, you're halfway to describing (in a way that I can pick back up) m…

I would be interested in hearing more about your tab reorganisation ideas, because I definitely recognize the pain of not being able to reconnect to a train of thought and have been exploring solutions myself. Is the research paper you mentioned available anywhere?

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

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Post by selfhoster11 » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 8:28 AM UTC

steve1820 wrote: post #18

esseeayen wrote: post #15

Very 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?

Here's a pretty good HN thread that highlights some criticisms of Electron: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733989