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

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Post by sn41 »

tester457 wrote: post #84
causality0 wrote: post #61

Thought about pivoting slightly to the left and adding a "content alert" feature? I could keep track of my interests in a hundred different ways, but what I can't do is keep up with them without being inundated with irrelevant information. For example, I want an alert when the bands I like release a new album. Not when they go on tour, not when they have a guest drummer, not any of the hundreds of bullshit "fan engag…

Is there seriously nothing that does this? Doesn't seem too difficult to implement now that I think of it. Could use a likes/retweets ratio to determine what's actual content and what are engagement posts.

I wish someone would come up with an AI system that would filter out GPT-3 style corporate speak and engagement emails, so that we can get proper content. I have signed up on multiple email lists, and it is tedious how every email is worded to tease out maximum subscription - what's the point? I'm already sold on this subject, but can we at least now get sober and short, and to the point?

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

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Post by yrgulation »

> I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project.

No need to figure it out immediately. Here are some ideas that spring to mind:

- Should automatically or manually ingest bookmarks

- Should be able to integrate with macos notes somehow

- Should be able to integrate with email providers - this is bordering on insanity but casual users might like it. Bonus points if you respect privacy and do it securely. HN will hate me for this suggestion, but half of it works at privacy violating corps anyway. Perhaps it could be done as a gmail or google docs addon?

- Integrate with reddit or anything that lets you save or favourite urls

I scatter links all over the place and would be nice to have them all centralised and searchable. Its a really cool app imo.

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

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Post by boomboomsubban »

pneumic wrote: post #93

If I need a tool to help me remember something I'm interested in, am I truly interested in it?

Yes. For example, when a song you know you like gets stuck in your head, but you can't remember what it's called or who performed it so can't listen to it.

This app doesn't help with this example, but being interested in something is not enough to remember it.

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

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Post by InvaderFizz »

I like the concept, but I'm not sure I'm the target audience.

I do a lot of browsing/research from my phone, and I would love a method of better categorizing things than sharing a url to myself on slack.

I would love something like this that I could quickly hit with a share sheet from iOS, add some quick notes/tags, and then just keep on browsing. Bonus if it could include a screenshot that I could markup/highlight or automatically take an archive.is snapshot of the site for later backup reference(I've lost many research references over the years due to link rot).

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

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Post by altilunium »

untech wrote: post #44

Can you perhaps sell this as an automated/smart Obsidian? Personal knowledge bases are all the rage now, see a recent discussion of Obsidian 1.0.

Sure. Personal knowledge graph should be automatically connected to "global knowledge graph" for better insight and context.

We already have several online database that could serve as "global knowledge graph" (wikidata, golden, imdb, rateyourmusic, goodreads, letterboxd, anidb, etc). The problem of to integrate it.

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

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Post by wildzzz »

heavytea21475 wrote: post #53
paulrchds wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One thing use case I can think of is a private detective who is tracking people. It would be a good place to keep notes or links to public information databases, property records, contact information, interview notes, etc.

Another one would be authors that are writing books that involve a lot of places, things, or people that need to be either accurately described or, in the case of sci-fi or fantasy, have an imagined description that needs to be recorded for continuity.

I'm imagining it sort of like an online version of a file cabinet where you have folders on all kinds of topics filled with notes and printouts. A more digital analogy would be a visual, annotated bookmark folder.

I have some folders like this at work. I need to access a lot of various reference manuals or standards that are difficult or impossible to find online, either because they come from a vendor under NDA or come from databases that are expensive or just hard to maintain continuous access to. Sometimes they are scans of hardcopies that I've had to request because the information is just so old. Whenever I get my hands on something I know I'll probably need again, I save a copy to my folder system. I'd love some sort of better filing system for these that would allow me to annotate the documents and provide some sort of synopsis that would help me remember why it's useful or why I used it in the past.

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