This kind of reminds me of Collections that is in MS Edge.
Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
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#52Beyond the tool itself, I like what this tool encourages: deliberate, conscious control of how we recall and explore our interests. Not some algorithm hoovering up whatever our lizard brains drove us to do at any given moment and offering us more of that so we spend as much time on the app as possible. Just a faithful servant helping us remember what we want to learn and do and be.
Put another way: Twitter wants you to spend as much time on Twitter as possible. If Twitter can interest you in fake controversies where people get mad about stuff that isn't true or makes no sense, Twitter will happily do that. But you're not gonna put "dig into more fake Twitter controversies" in your recall app. It's there to remind you of what you truly want, not just the things you can be tempted into wasting your life on.
I'd rather pay for an app that's going to make me better than get a free app that's going to make me worse.
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#53This seems really well built. It's fast and responsive. It looks nice. But I just don't understand what I would use it for. It seems like the idea is to build a database of people, movies, Wikipedia articles and such and then be able to find them via search/links. But I'm not at all sold on why I need this in my life. Is there a way to make the value clearer? Am I just not in the target audience? Who is going to see…
It's definitely not for everyone. The idea is that you can track things you are interested over your life, when you add new content that is related to something you have added in the past, it creates a link automatically resurfacing the old content. It basically build a knowledge graph of all your interests. Thanks for your feedback.
Is this supposed to be limited to things like people, movies, shows, etc.? It seemed that way based on what search box would accept. I couldn't even add a book via search. And there was mention of articles / blogs... but there's no way to import something like that from what I could tell, so it would be all manual entry which seems to defeat the purpose.
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#54This seems very similar to Sofa which I've been using for years: https://www.sofahq.com
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#55I love the concept but I’d be reticent to invest so much in a platform that has the possibilities that if it hits it’s likely to go away from acquisition and if it doesn’t is likely to go away from lack of financial incentive.
We’re storing some valuable stuff here. I wouldn’t want to put the kind of time I put into research and then find one day it’s gone (like Reader, Delicious, etc.)
What are the plans in those instances?
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#56I love the concept but I’d be reticent to invest so much in a platform that has the possibilities that if it hits it’s likely to go away from acquisition and if it doesn’t is likely to go away from lack of financial incentive. We’re storing some valuable stuff here. I wouldn’t want to put the kind of time I put into research and then find one day it’s gone (like Reader, Delicious, etc.) What are the plans in those in…
I have and FAQ point that addresses this here. Quoting from the site:
What happens if Recall disappears one day?
It is understandable that there is some hesitation to invest your time into adding your information to a new application and the obvious fear that it may just disappear one day. I want to reassure you that we are fully committed to Recall for the long term. But in the unlikely and unfortunate case that Recall doesn’t work out we will ensure that there is more than enough time for users to export their data so that it can be moved to another application. We would also open-source the project to allow users to host Recall themselves.
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#57I love the concept but I’d be reticent to invest so much in a platform that has the possibilities that if it hits it’s likely to go away from acquisition and if it doesn’t is likely to go away from lack of financial incentive. We’re storing some valuable stuff here. I wouldn’t want to put the kind of time I put into research and then find one day it’s gone (like Reader, Delicious, etc.) What are the plans in those in…
If it were easy to export your data to markdown or sync with other apps, would that ease your concerns?
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#58I love the concept but I’d be reticent to invest so much in a platform that has the possibilities that if it hits it’s likely to go away from acquisition and if it doesn’t is likely to go away from lack of financial incentive. We’re storing some valuable stuff here. I wouldn’t want to put the kind of time I put into research and then find one day it’s gone (like Reader, Delicious, etc.) What are the plans in those in…
If it were easy to export your data to markdown or sync with other apps, would that ease your concerns?
Other concerned potential user here. Absolutely, yes. Particularly exporting markdown.
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#59This seems very similar to Sofa which I've been using for years: https://www.sofahq.com
Ah this sofa looks cool. Hadn't seen it before. Recall is similar but for all your content, not just media.
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#60This could solve a problem I’ve been stuck on for a long time. I read so many interesting things and I make useful connections between topics and concepts, but I don’t revisit it later and forget much of what I have learned. I’ve experimented with journaling about all of the things I’ve learned and read in a day but it ends up being a chore. Maybe this would prove useful to help me literally “recall” what I’ve learned.