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Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#21
I’ve bookmarked this project which looks amazing to me, but I’ve yet to use the app.

https://raindrop.io/

It’s marketed as a bookmark manager with

* collections and tagging * full text search * automatic backup of web content * collaboration * search of other media types including pdfs and images

Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#22

You’re definitely looking for DEVONThink[1] if you haven’t seen it yet. Based on the description it gathers all your research for you, including saving web pages offline, and scans images/paper document to be included in search. Personally I have stuck to pasting everything on a certain topic into an Obsidian[2] note, but you won’t get image search. I’ve been looking for something that can integrate Google Photos sea…

I am using [librephotos](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos) and searching for objects/things/faces 'works' it is not great and objects is miles behind google, but it makes job done for me.

Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#24
post #13

Frankly, I'd be thrilled to have a Firefox fork that is designed to show exactly one page, specified by the command's sole argument, and do nothing else. All the "tab" stuff and bookmarks could be offloaded to shell scripts. Taken even further, you could modify the browser to expose git-ish hooks (for example, calling .browser/hooks/request-file when fetching a resource could allow you to implement request blocking).

Can't you basically do that by hidding UI-Elements? Firefox already has a good cli-interface.

Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#25

emacs ;) - org-mode - org-roam - eww / eaf-browser - pdf-tools - org-download

I love emacs but there’s a learning curve when getting started with emacs. Do you have any resources to get started with emacs

You're going to hate this but it's still as far as i can tell the best way:

  emacs -q
  C-h t RET
  ;; do that stuff
  M-: (info "(emacs")) RET
  ;; read stuff that looks interesting, then:
  q
Then start using emacs:

  emacs 
  ;; don't know what a key does?
  C-h k  RET
  ;; want to add a package? 
  M-x package-install  RET
  ;; don't know what a function is? 
  C-h f  RET
  ;; don't know what a variable is? 
  C-h v  RET

Then, for what OP wants:

  touch ~/notes/notes.org
  cd ~/notes
  git init . && git commit -am "i'm taking notes!"
  emacs notes.org
  ;; type lots of notes here, you'll figure out your own best practices as you go, don't worry about it much, just take notes.

Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#26

You’re definitely looking for DEVONThink[1] if you haven’t seen it yet. Based on the description it gathers all your research for you, including saving web pages offline, and scans images/paper document to be included in search. Personally I have stuck to pasting everything on a certain topic into an Obsidian[2] note, but you won’t get image search. I’ve been looking for something that can integrate Google Photos sea…

I love DEVONthink. Need to check how to set up using the same folder and files for Obsidian and Devonthink. Then Noteplan and/or Keep It as well. Keep It is also a bucket sort of app.

However yeah for photos especially, Apple or Google Pgotos is best. However neither have been very good with OCR of text. I’ve tried both with text in photos I knew for sure were around. They weren’t found.

There’s a $12 iPhone and Mac app that does good text search in images.

Re: Ask HN: Notes, mind-maps, browser tabs all in one solution?

#27
post #13

Frankly, I'd be thrilled to have a Firefox fork that is designed to show exactly one page, specified by the command's sole argument, and do nothing else. All the "tab" stuff and bookmarks could be offloaded to shell scripts. Taken even further, you could modify the browser to expose git-ish hooks (for example, calling .browser/hooks/request-file when fetching a resource could allow you to implement request blocking).

suckless.org's surf [1] is based around this ultra-minimalist single-tab, no features concept.

I personally prefer qutebrowser [2]. I use it with the "all tabs are windows" mode, leaving tab management to i3wm. It is by far the most customizable browser I've used and, unlike surf, I haven't found many pages it can't render correctly.

[1] https://surf.suckless.org/ [2] https://qutebrowser.org/

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