Thanks. Could you please add a dockerfile for faster installation ?
Will try to get it done in the next few days. :D
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#42https://hypothes.is/ is a similar open source and free tool that doesn't get enough mention. It also has an API that I used to create a job that sends me an email every morning with highlights and notes I should revise.
I remember looking at that. They are indeed really cool. What do you mean with notes and highlights you should revise? What kind of revisions are you doing?
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#43Fantastic! I'll have a deeper look and see if there's any opportunities for integrating this into https://learnawesome.org (which is also open-source).
One of the most frustating thing about the current generation of note-taking apps has been that either they are available as an offline app, or as a VS Code plugin. Many of them have turned into VC-funded startups - keeping the web version as a proprietary product, blindlt following Roam.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice. Tip: format it as a shell code block on markdown Also eval adding a Dockerfile for super-rapid deploy
Thanks. I'll probably look into a dockerfile option. Does format as a shell code block mean write it in a way that it can just be copied and pasted easily?
Github has pretty comprehensive documentation on their flavor of markdown used for formatting; Here's a direct link to the section on fenced code blocks: https://github.github.com/gfm/#fenced-code-blocks
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#45Hah, i am working on a near identical app. How did you deal with pulling content from the web without reinventing wheels? I was thinking about reusing an existing store of scraping instructions, InstantView by Telegram (iirc that's the name). Looks fairly straight forward to write a parser for that spec. However, i wanted to be able to store some in a repo on my own as well, but i fear DMCA strikes on a repo that sto…
Since I'm working on a similar project, this is how I am planning to pull content from the web, utilizing percollate[1] to get the HTML content, I haven't written any implementation for this in Python yet. If you don't mind me asking, how were you going to implement spaced repetition? Since the Incremental Reading algorithm has never been published as far as I know. [1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
I wanted to dogfood and experiment on most of the things, from design to SR algo.
My primary goal was to make something i wanted, which means lots of experimentation across the board. I also want to make a very general purpose/flexible system where you can tweak the underlying SR algo based on the type of knowledge. Ie i want to store music scores, as well as units of fact, and the SR algo or logarithms should support either.
Pulling content (Reader) seemed the hard part to me, mostly because of legality concerns.
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#46https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow.
Woah. Didn't know about this. I'm honestly amazed at how many similar things I've discovered that I didn't know about when I started this. I did look for similar tools, but didn't really surface that many of them. Not sure I would have ever started had I known the space was actually not as empty as it seemed. Would love to know what about the flow was clunky and why it didn't fit your workflow. Might be a lot that I…
This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constrained to pdf's only, and that's only one part of my reading workflow.
For a while I was trying to sync a Zotero library (since I need citation management when writing papers), and do all my academic reading (which is mostly pdf's) in Polar, but it was just a bit too much overhead to stick with.
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#47This looks really useful, as it solves a frequent concern I have: I read lots of articles but gradually important details drift from my recall.
Great to see the suggestions people have had (letting people see the product, giving install details etc) and you've been super responsive.
You mention in replies below about integrating with other tools as a way for it to work. I don't know how feasible this might be, but a tool I've been keen to use that it might fit well with is Archive Box: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
If you could integrate with something like that, it would focus on managing the content and this would be about the learning/recall testing. Is that the kind of approach you'd be aiming for?
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#48Nice! Archivy [0] has some of the same goals with integration of web content, also using Readability. Instead of going the highlight route, each article becomes a note in your knowledge base you can edit / add to.
It's really exciting to open source a project, Lurnby looks cool! What do you use the spaced repetition for?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Woah. Didn't know about this. I'm honestly amazed at how many similar things I've discovered that I didn't know about when I started this. I did look for similar tools, but didn't really surface that many of them. Not sure I would have ever started had I known the space was actually not as empty as it seemed. Would love to know what about the flow was clunky and why it didn't fit your workflow. Might be a lot that I…
This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constrained to pdf's only, and that's only one part of my reading workflow. For a while I was trying to sync a Zotero library (since I need citation management when writing papers), and do all my academic reading (which is mostly pdf's) in Polar,…
Oh interesting. PDF's is what is hardest for me. I need a completely different approach to handling them than I have been using for web content and epubs.
Thanks for sharing your story, it helps to put things in perspective. I wonder how much they've improved since you used them though. The website looks very sleek.
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#50Nice! Archivy [0] has some of the same goals with integration of web content, also using Readability. Instead of going the highlight route, each article becomes a note in your knowledge base you can edit / add to. It's really exciting to open source a project, Lurnby looks cool! What do you use the spaced repetition for? [0]: https://archivy.github.io
Woah. Very cool. You seem to make it really easy for people to get started and tick a lot of the boxes around privacy.
Today's been a bit of a nervous day for me actually haha, I didn't really expect this attention. Open sourcing just felt like the right thing to do for this app and because I just don't have all the skills :D
The spaced repetition at the moment is for the highlights. All highlights get marked at an initial level 0 and then move up or down depending on you reviewing them.
Eventually gets to the point where a highlight is shown to you yearly.
In the future I was thinking of doing some spacing around finished books or articles. Things like - you finished reading X 10 days ago, what do you remember?
But don't think I've thought through the details around that enough.