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Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

Hi, I really need something like this. I work on simultaneous engagements (mgmt. consulting) and travel substantially. This would help me organize better. Please let me know if I can try it.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by kulor »

747-8F wrote: post #31
kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

Hi, I really need something like this. I work on simultaneous engagements (mgmt. consulting) and travel substantially. This would help me organize better. Please let me know if I can try it.

Hi, drop me an email at "jb at kulor dot com" and I'll share details. Not ready to publicise the project.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by kulor »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #10
kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

I've been doing something similar based off of what I've been calling "intentionally overspaced repetition". I'm interested as well in how you're going about it.

I'd love to talk more with people who have done work in this space. Drop me an email at "jb at kulor dot com" and I'll explain more.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by kulor »

huehehue wrote: post #15
kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are: a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel…

I'm leaning into this without a commercial consideration so I don't need to overthink it, it's just something I want for myself.

I agree point b is a minefield and given my info is on the system, I've got skin in the game to make it secure.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by kulor »

xwolfi wrote: post #28
kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

Have you tried Confluence ?

Yep and Notion, Obsidian, Foam etc. All fine tools in their own right.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by donkeyboy »

Cool to see this idea in 1996. I think the main problem is that you have to write up / document everything for the Remembrance Agent to retrieve. The large majority of human knowledge stays locked to the brain, and sometimes our attempts at converting brain knowledge onto paper (“writing”) will leave omissions.

Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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Post by kulor »

suoduandao2 wrote: post #8
kulor wrote: post #3

I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…

I’d be interested in something like that, where do I sign up?

Hi, drop me an email at "jb at kulor dot com" and I'll share details.
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