One look at that logo, and I'm on the floor laughing.
It's a hat-tip to https://grugbrain.dev/
Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
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#32Interesting. This has a lot of features that appeal to me, automatically pulling certain data types with lists of backlinks seems great. The not local, not end-to-end encrypted parts are enough of a turn off that my wandering in the notes wilderness will continue. Good luck with your project though, I will be watching for further developments.
rad thanks. I wasn't planning any ai features, or datatypes -- but in toying with open ai it came about. I still need to add more inline methods to cast datatypes beyond people, companies, and locations. I'm working on attributes getting pulled out of notes too, so structured data is automatically created -- but not fully fleshed out yet. absolutely understand the need for local and encryption.
Concerns aside, automatic structured data is an exciting idea (and one I've been wanting in my workflow). Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
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#33Super cool! Have you considered making it a Logseq plugin?
Logseq is awesome. But I really wanted a text box on a website.
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#34One look at that logo, and I'm on the floor laughing.
You’ll remember it haha
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#35> we take design inspiration from websites like Hacker News, Craigslist, and McMaster Carr I bet they'd love when2meet.[0] It's a gem for organizing, completely free and zero sign-up required. It's really inspired me to push myself to see how far I could take "no signup required" in any app I work on [0] https://www.when2meet.com/ > The first 99 paying users are "Founding Grugs." For any referral you get to sign up f…
It's a very poorly conceived pyramid scheme if so, since it's limited to 99 people and the revenue share only goes one referral deep
> the revenue share only goes one referral deep
"25% of the persons recurring revenue" must be all the referrals of that referral and all the way down.
I don't like it because it introduces difficult to understand incentives that may be different than "make good product" and difficult to understand.
Maybe the most obvious wrong incentive is "make product that is easy to get your friends to start and keep using". A product like that would benefit from network effects and social contagion and no interoperation with other products, and build features correspondingly. (cf Facebook)
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#36> We are a product from a canoe-building company. No joke. We are born out of Kamanu Composites, a local manufacturer in Hawai'i … GrugNotes is a rewrite/spin-out of a DIY ERP software started in 2008. Cool that this was made as a ERP solution for their manufacturing business FIRST, and now that they’ve refined the idea somewhat, they are making it a white-labeled app. Following in some big footsteps! (Rails, AWS, Re…
Ha! fairly certain I don't belong in any list with those other things, but thanks! also, what I said was a small stretch. I had one text box for weekly notes on my django app i made to collect my canoe building records and customer data. I did more or less start over from scratch with this. But yes, 1000% of my ideas are from making project websites 2000-2014, and from building canoes for 15 years.
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#37maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.
Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)
briefly, but not extensively. I was a roam user for almost 3 years. I actually prefer a simple website for mobile and not having an app. I really dislike tags, and the look of brackets. in fact note taking in general lol. Preference is to type minimal notes, minimal configuration, minimal 'gardening'. The complexity and plugins people get into for note taking seems over the top for me.
Gpt-3 for automatic entity extraction/tagging. Embeddings and Pinecone for similarity searches.
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#38I love the spirit of this. Caveman-level simplicity is awesome! I think I am personally too Grug of an audience for Grug Notes, though; my current note taking scheme is vim on text files in a notes folder.
Caveman simplicity is the best! The “gardening” involved in many PKM apps is what has turned me away from them. I’ve started just throwing my stuff into a Markdown file on GitHub (so I can easily sync across devices). I’ve taken the same ethos to my website on GH pages (steph-inners.github.io) and use it to share knowledge that people commonly ask me about. It’s super easy to update, and Ctrl+F takes care of finding things later.
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#39That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.
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#40That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.
Data in this case being: an email address and a password.
Your concern feels overblown given that.