Remembering is so 1982. One of the main goals of tech is superseding memory.
Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
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#142I see what this app is about but at the same time it enforces information overload which is an instant turn off for me. What'll happen if I were to use it: I'll pile up more and more stuff I'm interested into, I'll receive news about all things I've subscribed to and eventually I'll get annoyed from the "spam". Then I'll unsubscribe realizing that information overload can't be handled with apps, I have to solve that…
The idea is you collect stuff that you can kinda forget about over time. When you add something new that is related to content you have already added, a link is automatically created which resurfaces the content from the past helping you draw connections that you may have not seen yourself.
How do you determine that a newly added piece of content is related to a previously added one?
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#143Remembering is so 1982. One of the main goals of tech is superseding memory.
That is a straight path to becoming an unthinking entity.
The first requirement of thought is memory. You can only think with it.
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#144One thought is if you could work on marketing / targeted theme for people with memory issues (like from age, or illness). So perhaps explore if you can sell it as a tool to assist those with medical needs for it.
Be careful not to market as a medical device. This can come back to bite you. "My mum used this tool made for people with memory issues to tell her to remember to take her medicine and it was offline for a day and she's now in trouble".
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#145Beyond 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…
> But you're not gonna put "dig into more fake Twitter controversies" in your recall app
This is classic programming from Big Don't Dig Into Conspiracies. Wake up, sheeple!
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#146Nice concept. Looks great, polished, etc.
If I was investing time in building a personal knowledge base then I'd want to be super-clear about how to export my data from the service. I didn't find any mention of this existing now, just a commitment that it would be there if the service was discontinued.
Good luck!
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
What confused me about "remember shit that you are interested in" is that I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note-taking app, a list app. Heck, Anki fits the description as well. I watched the short video and it reminded me the way I used to use bookmarks in the browser, organizing big discouraging lists of things that I thought I should follow up on but rarely did. The option t…
>Personally I run into interesting things all the time, and it seems great to be able to have a place to store them so I don’t forget about them. >I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note-taking app, a list app. Heck, Anki fits the description as well. I've found an unexpected use case here for Telegram. I have Telegram open all the time in the background on all my computers and…
Yeah, Saved Messages is that unexpected feature for me too. I also use it to easily send photos from my phone to my laptop. It makes it convenient because Telegram is right at the top in the Share options, and it’s async, so I can send something now and use it whenever.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea is you collect stuff that you can kinda forget about over time. When you add something new that is related to content you have already added, a link is automatically created which resurfaces the content from the past helping you draw connections that you may have not seen yourself.
How do you determine that a newly added piece of content is related to a previously added one?
It extracts the keywords and create a card for that keyword (kinda like a tag), when multiple content include the same keywords they get linked.
Re: Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
#149Nice concept. Looks great, polished, etc. If I was investing time in building a personal knowledge base then I'd want to be super-clear about how to export my data from the service. I didn't find any mention of this existing now , just a commitment that it would be there if the service was discontinued. Good luck!
I am working on export to markdown feature. But its not released yet.
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#150I have a home-baked system like this, mostly just files in folders and in some cases HTML-based indexes. It's not perfect and nowhere near as usable as Recall looks, but it works for me nonetheless.
I won't use Recall. It's just another Web app, and thus subject to the whims of the owners (selling my data, injecting ads when other sources of income fail, etc). I would be much more amenable to a desktop app I have absolute control over. They keep my data (assuming I were to use Recall) on their servers - but no comments I found talk about data protection or what happens to my online data if they fail, sell or merge with another company.
These days if I don't get absolute control of my data it's just not going to happen.
A model I would be happy with is a desktop app that syncs with a mobile app, encrypts everything, and is purchasable with a one-time payment.
I'm tired of Internet-everything. It always ends in disappointment for me.