Evernote?
Elephant and all.
App features aside, elephants are associated with memory in some cultures. Evernote likely chose an elephant for this association. PostgreSQL has Slonik as its mascot for the same reason.
The Memory App – Instant personalized memory recall
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#12As somebody noted below, this just looks remarkably like Evernote: store notes, photos, places and reminders, with multiple tags that you can define yourself. It's an incredibly manual process, although as someone with 610 notes in Evernote, I attest to its usefulness :) Really, this seems like the killer app for always-on video lifelogging, coupled to really advanced computer vision and automatic tagging. I would lo…
This reminds me :-) of the Remembrance Agent, an MIT project that looked at what you were doing in your Emacs and would pop up related hints and notes from your past as you changed contexts. I think they were trying to move the idea into wearables, but it didn't translate well with clunky eyewear and wearable keyboard. Now, with OCR and vision, your killer app is getting closer. http://web.archive.org/web/20160304120…
Oh, interesting. Eclipse has a similar feature called Mylyn, which allowed you to associate contexts with tasks - so, for instance, if you were working on a feature and had to quickly switch over to working on a priority bug, you could have different sets of open files for each of those tasks.
A quick Google doesn't reveal any link between the projects, but I do wonder if Mylyn was inspired directly by the Remembrance Agent project.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elephant and all.
App features aside, elephants are associated with memory in some cultures. Evernote likely chose an elephant for this association. PostgreSQL has Slonik as its mascot for the same reason. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo#Why_elephant.3F
Elephants are associated with memory
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#14Evernote?
I'm looking at hosting my own paperwork to replace Evernote:
https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork
I've been using Evernote since I first used the PalmPre app (they probably have the highest platform support out of any app), but with the recent price changes, I'm not sure if they'll be around for much longer. If I'm going to pay for something, I might as well have control of the data too.
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#15I want people to want this but I know that people don't.
Imagine having a rewind button on your whole life, with annotations and references. That means everything you think or associations you make can be "sourced." That's an amazing thing that would eliminate any self delusion, deceitful action or inconsistent behavior.
Trouble is, humans are knots of inconsistency, deceit and delusion and we can't live otherwise. It puts our brains into panic mode and existential dread. If we could handle it, all the world's problems would go away, but we can't. Our current conception of ourselves is a polished and selective reinterpretation of our own past so that we can try and make our future selves fit some narrative. An accurate and auditable history would blow that up entirely.
I really want to figure out a way to build such a system but my fear is that it's incompatible with humanity.
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#16I want people to want this but I know that people don't. Imagine having a rewind button on your whole life, with annotations and references. That means everything you think or associations you make can be "sourced." That's an amazing thing that would eliminate any self delusion, deceitful action or inconsistent behavior. Trouble is, humans are knots of inconsistency, deceit and delusion and we can't live otherwise. I…
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#17Evernote?
I'm looking at hosting my own paperwork to replace Evernote: https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork I've been using Evernote since I first used the PalmPre app (they probably have the highest platform support out of any app), but with the recent price changes, I'm not sure if they'll be around for much longer. If I'm going to pay for something, I might as well have control of the data too.
I cringe on anything that uses MySQL to store information, but looks like something I wished I made, so I will definitely check this out, thanks for posting.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm looking at hosting my own paperwork to replace Evernote: https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork I've been using Evernote since I first used the PalmPre app (they probably have the highest platform support out of any app), but with the recent price changes, I'm not sure if they'll be around for much longer. If I'm going to pay for something, I might as well have control of the data too.
I cringe on anything that uses MySQL to store information, but looks like something I wished I made, so I will definitely check this out, thanks for posting.
So you "cringe on" Wikipedia?
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#20I want people to want this but I know that people don't. Imagine having a rewind button on your whole life, with annotations and references. That means everything you think or associations you make can be "sourced." That's an amazing thing that would eliminate any self delusion, deceitful action or inconsistent behavior. Trouble is, humans are knots of inconsistency, deceit and delusion and we can't live otherwise. I…
Reminds me of the third episode of Black Mirror:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
Similar, but in the case of the episode you could also replay every interaction you had with other people... Was that a slight frown before they smiled?