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I am using Firefox ... where or what is "View"?
It's the main menu. It's invisible now until you press Alt.
OK, got it. Not ideal, but at least that makes it readable ... thanks!
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#42This is interesting. We at OrgPad.com try to do something a bit different but still in the related/ almost same space - we want to make a system usable for normal people, not for mostly highly educated and concentrated hackers/ IT professionals. We don't do any activity tracking, you have to be deliberate, what to write down and what not. We also currently have no way to evaluate information in the units e.g. for some kind of hierarchy or automatic sorting. These features will eventually come, but we are not there yet. As I said, our users are mostly people with expertise in other fields than IT, like teachers, students or managers.
OrgPad.com is a SaaS tool that you can use for free. It tries to do away with as much hassle/ non-sense as possible by really focusing on information and relationships between those. You can connect units as you want, you can put into units what you want. The layout is topologically stable, but the absolute position can change slightly e.g. if you open up a unit which has a large picture or something. This is a completely new algorithm that understands a units area and therefore knows, if a link is crossing it or not. A killer feature is being able to do "a path through the graph" which is basically a presentation/ slideshow of sort. The nice thing is, you don't have to transform your knowledge to a different format to be able to present it. We have found that normal users are a lot quicker creating such a presentation compared to e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint. Oh, and of course you can easily collaborate on one OrgPage with multiple people e.g. by sending them a link for editing or adding them to your team. If you want to just have a look and not create a login: have a look at some of the public OrgPages https://orgpad.com/list
Currently, we are writing our own editor, that should be much simpler than the current one and therefore integrate much better with the whole concept. When it is done, editing on mobile will also be possible. Mobile is currently read-only, but you can at least upload photos/ videos and sort them later, when you are at a computer which is a big help for us and our users. The whole thing is developed in Clojure/ClojureScript so the idea of simplicity really was an inspiration.
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#43This blog is a summary of a fun 1 month adventure I had with Knowledge Management Systems and building a POC that I thought had potential. It was inspired by so many of the products I see on Hacker News. I’ve open sourced all the code + written down some notes on my insights/ architecture. Just a warning, the code leaves much to be desired as this was a mini project over 2-3 weekends. At the moment, I have 3 key laye…
Built something like that 5 years ago
https://twitter.com/MindDriveCo/status/668518135880916992
Have been working ever since to address many of the issues discussed in this thread and lot more.
On the way to turning Engelbart's Conceptual Framework
https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138
for Augmenting Human Intellect into a Practical (meta) Framework. "Go Meta Young Man' and join the effort to build a Kernel for Open Collective Intellect on the Decentralized Web.
It is not a commercial venture, but wanting to contribute to Web 3 something comparable in impact to Ward Cunningham's Wiki, something that have the potential to trully change the workld as Ward Cunningham idea of the Wiki had.
Primarily Enduring, Open, Co-evolvable, Bootstrapable, metadesignable, promoting edge-user autonomy, uneclosable collaboration and much more
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334126329_Weaving_a...
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#44Could 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.
That's why we need first and foremost protocols and ecosystems that prioritize Permanence, and changeability adaptability without loosing continuity.
A new Kernel for the Decentralized Web that also guarantees interoperability
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#45> 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.
and smart People Centered Architectures emergent HyperMaps of Meaning @TrailMarks
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#46This blog is a summary of a fun 1 month adventure I had with Knowledge Management Systems and building a POC that I thought had potential. It was inspired by so many of the products I see on Hacker News. I’ve open sourced all the code + written down some notes on my insights/ architecture. Just a warning, the code leaves much to be desired as this was a mini project over 2-3 weekends. At the moment, I have 3 key laye…
Built something like that 5 years ago https://twitter.com/MindDriveCo/status/668518135880916992 Have been working ever since to address many of the issues discussed in this thread and lot more. On the way to turning Engelbart's Conceptual Framework https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138 for Augmenting Human Intellect into a Practical (meta) Framework. "Go Meta Young Man' and join the effort to build a Kernel…
I'll have a read...very interesting!
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#47This 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.
Apologies for that Colin! I'm using Squarespace for my personal blog.
I'll investigate further to make it more readable.
EDIT: spelling
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#48There 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!
Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement :-)
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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
Thanks, reading it now. Good points on memory usage and latency.
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#50This 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.
Apologies for that Colin! I'm using Squarespace for my personal blog. I'll investigate further to make it more readable. EDIT: spelling
Thanks for the response ... it might be fine for people with better eyes, or better monitors, but as you can see from the screenshot, the contrast is very low for me.
Love the work, I've saved the link into my system and will be reading it more carefully later. If you'd care to send me an email I'll send you a link to some draft thoughts I've had about knowledge systems. No obligation, obviously.
Cheers!