Thought about pivoting slightly to the left and adding a "content alert" feature? I could keep track of my interests in a hundred different ways, but what I can't do is keep up with them without being inundated with irrelevant information. For example, I want an alert when the bands I like release a new album. Not when they go on tour, not when they have a guest drummer, not any of the hundreds of bullshit "fan engagement" emails or social media alerts. Just content. Same for authors, directors, artists, etc. You build that system and I'd pay a subscription to use it.
Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
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#62This could solve a problem I’ve been stuck on for a long time. I read so many interesting things and I make useful connections between topics and concepts, but I don’t revisit it later and forget much of what I have learned. I’ve experimented with journaling about all of the things I’ve learned and read in a day but it ends up being a chore. Maybe this would prove useful to help me literally “recall” what I’ve learne…
Hope it can solve your problem. Please send me feedback on your experience.
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#63Thought about pivoting slightly to the left and adding a "content alert" feature? I could keep track of my interests in a hundred different ways, but what I can't do is keep up with them without being inundated with irrelevant information. For example, I want an alert when the bands I like release a new album. Not when they go on tour, not when they have a guest drummer, not any of the hundreds of bullshit "fan engag…
Yeah, this was a feature I am working on. It shows it on the site. Have a look by
"Stay informed - Subscribe to news about the specific things that interest you always keeping you in the know."
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#64This is super cool. I just tried it out by looking into a few health/medical topics. So far, I’ve only tried the “internal” experience of “create note with search”, “expanding” and clicking on links – I haven’t tried saving links from my normal web browsing. It’s a nice alternative to using Wikipedia for quickly researching a topic, the benefit being that it gives me bullet points so I’m not overloaded with information.
I don’t see myself replacing my Obsidian notes with this any time soon, but it could serve the niche of the first pass of research – a quick way to collect information, where afterwards I’d consolidate my findings into more permanent notes in Obsidian.
What would make this really useful is more data sources. As far as I can tell, Recall’s “create note with search” only uses Wikipedia right now. It would be awesome to be able to compile information from multiple sources into one note. For example, I was just looking into anemia. It would be cool if, in addition to Wikipedia, I could pull in some information from WebMD, Mayo Clinic, or Harvard Health, too. A more fine-grained way to pick and choose what information I want to add would also be useful.
Nice project, I’ll keep an eye on it! Also, good job with the mobile UX, it’s pretty good!
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#65Thought about pivoting slightly to the left and adding a "content alert" feature? I could keep track of my interests in a hundred different ways, but what I can't do is keep up with them without being inundated with irrelevant information. For example, I want an alert when the bands I like release a new album. Not when they go on tour, not when they have a guest drummer, not any of the hundreds of bullshit "fan engag…
Yeah, this was a feature I am working on. It shows it on the site. Have a look by "Stay informed - Subscribe to news about the specific things that interest you always keeping you in the know."
It sounds like that's not filtering out the non-content, though. If I just wanted news about my interests I'd use a Google alert.
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#66If data is stored locally, why would FAQs state that once it becomes non-Freemium, they won’t lock you out of your notes. Shouldn’t that be a given?
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#67I love the concept but I’d be reticent to invest so much in a platform that has the possibilities that if it hits it’s likely to go away from acquisition and if it doesn’t is likely to go away from lack of financial incentive. We’re storing some valuable stuff here. I wouldn’t want to put the kind of time I put into research and then find one day it’s gone (like Reader, Delicious, etc.) What are the plans in those in…
If it were easy to export your data to markdown or sync with other apps, would that ease your concerns?
The ability to schedule backups of my data, perhaps emailed or something I can hit periodically myself (API?) would make me hop on and pay now. Until then, I can't justify even investing time to try right now.
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#68Can you perhaps sell this as an automated/smart Obsidian? Personal knowledge bases are all the rage now, see a recent discussion of Obsidian 1.0.
For sometime I was actually considering making recall a plugin for Obsidian.
I’m using obsidian and Zotero as an academic workflow for my PhD.
There is a huge market for knowledge tools for students and academics, and universities, libraries and high schools often buy these tools in bulk to be a student resource.
I gather all my academic articles in Zotero and can cite them into my papers from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc Cite
I think your tool could be a great way to help me gather all the media around my research.
If you could tie into a citation workflow, into pandoc, you’d be on a big winner.
Look into how academics might want to go from your tool > obsidian > pandoc > word to generated cited references from your tool.
https://citeproc-js.readthedocs.io/en/latest/csl-json/markup...
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#69Turds to remember.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
For sometime I was actually considering making recall a plugin for Obsidian.
I’m using obsidian and Zotero as an academic workflow for my PhD. There is a huge market for knowledge tools for students and academics, and universities, libraries and high schools often buy these tools in bulk to be a student resource. I gather all my academic articles in Zotero and can cite them into my papers from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc Cite I think your tool could be a great way to help me gather all the med…
Actually better yet, take an immersive design approach, look into enrolling into a short degree by research, and as the uni resources you up on ‘how to do academic research’, polish your tool and pitch it to students and academics from the inside.
I didn’t know this before but if you have an undergrad, you can add a one year honours in research even at a different institution or a two year masters by research.
We’ll that’s how it works in Australia anyways.