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Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#32

Post by paulrchds »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #14

All I want to know is, does it use Semantic Web? This is like the perfect application for a semantic knowledge base. ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54837 https://guides.library.ucla.edu/semantic-web/wikidata )

yeah, wikidata is one of the sources used. The browser extension I am working on will parse the semantic markup from the page too.

Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#33

Post by skipants »

This looks cool. As someone who just keeps this info as tabs in their phone browser that I may stumble upon randomly in the future it really speaks to me.

One issue I have with data dumps like this is keeping them from getting bloated. Say I use this a lot and have gathered 10,000 entries over two years -- how can I be sure that 1 entry I want to recall isn't lost in the sea of the other 9,999?

Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#34

Post by tkk23 »

That's a beautiful branding. The UX seems to be very intuitive. I would love to try it without registration. Since you store the data in the browser, have you considered offering a fully offline version that doesn't need registration for users to get hooked? I would like to postpone syncing until the data becomes valuable.

To me, it would also be important that the data is stored in an encrypted form on the server and that the key remains in the browser and has to be stored by me.

Personally, I would like to have the option to discover people who work on similar notes, think travel app [1] for mental journeys. It would also be nice to have some social features like voting on links or sharing notes or sets of notes so that others can annotate them. Bonus points if those social features use an open protocol so that users from other note taking apps can join.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33344734

Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#36

Post by paulrchds »

skipants wrote: post #33

This looks cool. As someone who just keeps this info as tabs in their phone browser that I may stumble upon randomly in the future it really speaks to me. One issue I have with data dumps like this is keeping them from getting bloated. Say I use this a lot and have gathered 10,000 entries over two years -- how can I be sure that 1 entry I want to recall isn't lost in the sea of the other 9,999?

Thats where the bi-directional links come in. When you add something new that is somehow related to something you have added in the past, recall will automatically create a link for you helping you resurface old knowledge when it is most relevant.

Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#38

Post by jrussino »

I'm certainly in the target audience for this. Nice work!

Here's a feature request: make it easy for me to import/dump stuff from the other methods that I've tried to use to store things I'm interested in. For example: HN favorites, Reddit saved posts, Firefox bookmarks, Instapaper bookmarks, ios notes

Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

#39

Post by paulrchds »

jrussino wrote: post #38

I'm certainly in the target audience for this. Nice work! Here's a feature request: make it easy for me to import/dump stuff from the other methods that I've tried to use to store things I'm interested in. For example: HN favorites, Reddit saved posts, Firefox bookmarks, Instapaper bookmarks, ios notes

Awesome, let me know if you would do a user interview?

Thanks for the feature request. I have import browser bookmarks in my backlog. I think I can prioritise it higher. If you share your email I can mail you when its ready.

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