The 'technologies used' section should've mentioned 'antd'
Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
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#52This 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…
This is a really cool use of browser history data. I'm building ActivityWatch [1] and have been thinking of building something similar on top of it.
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Do you then sync to a real CouchDB? Or, do you use PouchDB server on the backend, or otherwise? I'm interested in understanding how you eventually translate to Graph4j and how you do authentication. Where can I look for this? This is really, really cool that you open sourced this. Thank you.
No worries! I'm always leeching from the open source community so I'd thought to give back haha. The visualisation library I'm using is by Ant Design (Alibaba). You can see some examples below from the documentation. https://g6.antv.vision/en/examples/gallery Re syncing with real CouchDB - I haven't implemented that yet but from what I read, its definitely possible with PouchDB. Re I have a bunch of Express APIs that…
It is definitely possible to sync with CouchDB. I've just found that the uncertainty around how to do authz/authn (CouchDB recommends, now, that you do this in your own proxy layer) and the difficulties to make sure the entire process works, makes debugging tricky. I've tried with a variety of NodeJS+CouchDB and PouchDB-server and nothing gives me a solution which I don't have to babysit quite a bit.
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there is another Memex project with a Firefox extension. https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
Awesome open source project as well!! Good find.
Hello steve,
I like how you are integrating pytorch and other ML models in your project. Looking forward to it and I hope you the best. Do you have a twitter profile or a mailing list? I found only your email and linked in profile on the website. I want to be updated on this project.
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#55Have you talked to Andrew Louis about his Memex?
Definitely someone you should reach out to in this space if you're interested in seeing other approaches.
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#56This 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?
Unfortunately I ended up shelving the project once it became clear that I couldn't go far without rebuilding the browser, and I think things have only gotten worse in terms of what extensions can do.
Here's what I could find from my old folders - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4nxW9GaQXybdX4zKqVsdaE7unI...
It's not much - and I remember getting a little further, but I must've lost the file - but hopefully it eases the discovery of prior art if you end up going down this path.
If you do, would love to hear from you to help or share thoughts!
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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?
Unfortunately I ended up shelving the project once it became clear that I couldn't go far without rebuilding the browser, and I think things have only gotten worse in terms of what extensions can do. Here's what I could find from my old folders - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4nxW9GaQXybdX4zKqVsdaE7unI... It's not much - and I remember getting a little further, but I must've lost the file - but hopefully it eases…
Thanks! Especially loved the cognitive neuroscience references.
For context, I'm working on a browser and note taking app for the iPad and have been exploring ways to organize browsing activity to go beyond treating tabs as ephemeral state. It's not quite there yet, but it would be great to hear what you think once I have more to share!
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately I ended up shelving the project once it became clear that I couldn't go far without rebuilding the browser, and I think things have only gotten worse in terms of what extensions can do. Here's what I could find from my old folders - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4nxW9GaQXybdX4zKqVsdaE7unI... It's not much - and I remember getting a little further, but I must've lost the file - but hopefully it eases…
Thanks! Especially loved the cognitive neuroscience references. For context, I'm working on a browser and note taking app for the iPad and have been exploring ways to organize browsing activity to go beyond treating tabs as ephemeral state. It's not quite there yet, but it would be great to hear what you think once I have more to share!
Looking forward to it!
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#59This 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…
Tree Style Tabs browser extension sounds relevant to what you're describing https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab
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#60This 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.
You can use reader mode on your browser. That should work to improve the contrast. You can customize it your liking.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...