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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by ecthiender »

Haven't people been doing this for a long time? Maintaining and categorizing their pieces of personal knowledge - in files?

I personally don't understand, why such a tool need to exist. I thought humanity solved this problem the day we started to write down things. From stones, to papyrus, to personal diaries, and now to personal files on personal disks on personal laptops/desktops.

I don't understand, why suddenly someone would want to put their personal knowledge base on someone else's database (the cloud - their servers - whatever)!

Why is this even worth it? Just because you can render your knowledge pretty (with nice font, big and bold headers and images)?

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#102

Post by thefox »

stephenson wrote: post #59
cad wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

evernote kind of apps don't work. Except Google Keep. Keep kinda works.

The only problem is that Google dont keep services alive.

What warrant us that Faqt.co is still alive next week? Nothing. Every service on the Internet can be shut down. Google services are as long online as Google profit from them.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#103

Post by philtar »

danparsonson wrote: post #92
keedot wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cars never rolled on stone wheels. Flintstones was a cartoon, not a documentary.

> Flintstones was a cartoon, not a documentary. Go ahead and shatter my illusions, why don't you.

Comments like this belong on reddit. This is an information sharing website.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#104

Post by philtar »

buster wrote: post #9

How can something which is _personal_ and supposed to be _lightweigth_ a web site? Do i understand right that my data is hosted on their servers? Oh well...

Personal means it's not enterprise.

Lightweight means not a lot of features.

Why the hell are people so nitpicky

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#105

Post by dmd »

nopar8 wrote: post #73
355mainstreet wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't get too attached. Keep is being discontinued in the next few months. Something better is replacing it, eventually, but just keep that in mind.

I was unable to find anything that suggests this. Are you speculating?

Could be that, could be a troll, could be an actual Googler (355 Main Street is Google's address in Cambridge MA)

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#106

Post by msutherl »

x0x0 wrote: post #61
msutherl wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Evernote, DEVONthink, and Google Docs are the big players. There's also: http://are.na/ , http://pinterest.com , http://www.dropmark.com/ , https://kippt.com/ , https://pinboard.in/ , Wordpress or Tumblr (with the right theme) and there are 5+ more projects in this space announced over the past year of which I was aware at one time, but sadly I lost track of the list. Not to mention, http://etherpad.org/ / http://pir…

wow, thanks! Since you're obviously interested and curated a list, could you share your choice?

Unfortunately there's no one application that does it all. I use Google Docs for collaborative document editing with various teams I work with, Arena for collecting bookmarks, embeds, and images (some of that activity is collaborative), Evernote for collecting and synthesizing ideas (also sometimes collaborative), Trello for high-level project management, OmniFocus as a personal task manager / universal inbox for ideas, references, etc., and I was using Ulysses (and Daedelus for iPhone) as a kind of journal / space for thinking through ideas, but I'm slowly migrating that over to Evernote.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by stephenson »

thefox wrote: post #102
stephenson wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only problem is that Google dont keep services alive.

What warrant us that Faqt.co is still alive next week? Nothing. Every service on the Internet can be shut down. Google services are as long online as Google profit from them.

Faqt.co could as well yes, but google has quit a history of closing down small services.

> Google services are as long online as Google profit from

How do the profit from Keep?

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

#110

Post by dmcswain »

dmcswain wrote: post #108

Nice! And here's a speech interface that lets FAQT users load notes by voice command from Chrome, Android, or Android Wear. (Voice commands, like FAQT notes, can be shared.) https://goo.gl/1VwtE1

FAQT from a smartwatch: https://goo.gl/OBz6tA
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