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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by kordlessagain »

I use something I built, which is running at https://mitta.us/. It uses Solr and GPT3 to control your browser, crawl websites, run ML pipelines on the documents, and provide search for whatever is saved. It's sorta like a souped up version of goosh.org.

The whole idea is based on a "shell" UI, which runs JavaScript commands that translate into something like what DDG does:

  > !google something (this takes you to Google after running google.js)
You can crawl things and then talk about them:

  nickel-scorpion*> Showing 1 of 1 results.
  url  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34102057
  title ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says | Hacker News
  description None
  spool bulky-pastoral-perch view
  source_type web
  id 17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN discuss|tag|delete
  updated 2022-12-24T16:33:04Z ⊂ +alltime
  image 
  pastel-mature-herring~> !discuss what's this article about?
  nickel-scorpion*> The article is about how Google is worried that they could be replaced by a search engine based on the ChatGPT like technology.
  pastel-mature-herring~> !discuss is it a valid concern?
  nickel-scorpion*> Yes, it is a valid concern.
  pastel-mature-herring~> !model ~17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN |description_from_fulltext
  nickel-scorpion*> Standby...
  nickel-scorpion*> Document updated: ID 17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN.
  description The page contains excerpts from a discussion about the ChatGPT search engine. People are generally impressed with its accuracy, but caution that it is not always correct. The engine is still in development, and its costs are currently high.
It's been a long haul working on it and I'm still struggling with "getting done" enough to release it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by Pr0ject217 »

grnrnm wrote: post #26
alunchbox wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the catch though, stay out of media and then you're ignorant of things happening, as tiring as it is. Stay with social news apps like reddit and yeah they're a huge time waster but quick aggregation of news and can get you a good understanding of what's happening.

I just look at the Wikipedia Current Events page [0]. It's possibly the most straight-to-the-point and least biased way I've found to just know what's going on. If you have any specific interests, there are similar sites. I've found Blue's News [1] to be great for a quick catch up on gaming. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events [1]: https://www.bluesnews.com

I didn't know about the Wikipedia Current Events page. This is genius. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by skinnymuch »

fragmede wrote: post #22

Save the shit out of all of it. Only available on Apple Silicon. https://www.rewind.ai/

It uses a lot of cpu usage and I can’t find stuff I’m looking for for past 3 searches. I have to use my own system I already have of screenshotting 4x/min to go back to finding stuff.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by rinka_singh »

I wanted something that I could organize "my way" and thought the html format was interesting since I could connect pieces of information together. Also something I could edit and update quickly - I settled on the combination of desktop+wiki+html...

So about 5 odd years ago I started using zim https://zim-wiki.org/index.html (there are other tools too, I have just gotten used to it) - everytime I searched for something, read something interesting or learned something new, I would add it to my zim install.

Over time, this has become the first place I search or refer to for anything - frequently I find more useful and contextual information here as compared to a search engine. This is becoming my backup brain.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by nokya »

I don't :) Or to be more precise: I gradually downgraded from storing everything to storing nothing.

I put an incredible amount of effort in forcing myself not to keep track of content I encounter. I keep some bookmarks: interfaces I must interact with on a daily or weekly basis at most, and a folder in which I put links to pages on which I have written a comment (like this one after I post my comment). The folder is quite up-to-date.

And I may save some pics, usually those shared by friends/family, typically pictures that I cannot find in a search engine.

Otherwise...I can't think of other content that I save.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?

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Post by mackrevinack »

LunarAurora wrote: post #50
mackrevinack wrote: post #48

i started using Grist recently as a place where i could save almost everything, movies/tv shows to watch, books to read, audiobooks, podcasts, bits of software/services to try out etc etc being able to have a notes column is handy. i have so many things ive bookmarked but then years can't remember why! its also let's you embed an image and a youtube video which can be useful for jogging your memory. im only experimen…

I Love grist. The good news is it supports incremental imports (=Merge). So personally, for daily use, I bookmark with the excellent Raindrop.io web clipper (you can add notes). From time to time, I would export everything as CSV (option included) to grist. Another similar option I like is Notion. Its databases are less powerful than grist, but more than enough for cataloguing/bookmarking. And good web clippers exist…

i was using raindrop for a while as well actually, just for bookmarking regular stuff, but doing incremental imports using that is an option i suppose

i just did a bit more research on web clippers and found this one that supports of few different services so it might be trivial enough to add support for grist. not that i have the ability to do that at the moment but it might be a fun challenge at some point!

https://github.com/webclipper/web-clipper

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