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Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by aapeli »

I quite like this idea. It seems for now to be fairly simple: I think more "decorations" and higher detail on trees, or whatever, might be important.

It seems that it's only 2.5D though. Have you considered making it truly 3D somehow? There's a surprisingly large amount of extra space you gain with that third dimension.

Also, fun idea: what if the island evolved over time? Like every time you visit, trees grow a bit and some new trees grow next to them, so eventually you get a forest, etc. I wonder what the implications of this would be to remembering things? Would the constant change help, or no?

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by rijoja »

mettamage wrote: post #90

I just saw the intro video. I agree with the key insight (I'm a psychology graduate, I'm basing it on that knowledge). Here's some raw feedback from an n = 1. I'm being as critical as I can here, because your project can take it. Personally, I don't think this is the final answer to the problem your solving but a good step towards it. I see some UX issues. It feels like I'm looking at a Blackberry (in a pre-Blackberr…

There should definitively be a VR app made from this!

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by howmayiannoyyou »

This is the repository I want to leave my kids when I'm gone, with curated content from my life experience the can explore when they feel as if they need some guidance.

It's also got a ton of potential as UI for blockchain exploration, where the elevation and other topographical features are influenced by transaction characteristics.

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by bfung »

Having played and playing a MMORPG where there are farming/fishing/shop points on a map, these types of things start to lose organization when it gets to around 70ish nodes. While a bit better than text, it's not 10x better.

Along the same lines about digital habits & itunes and gmail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087406

Why do I still need to sort & remember where I put my note/email/idea? Why not just search for keywords and bring all the relevant notes up? I do agree that part of the problem/key is how the user inputs their idea, but the memory tool should bring it back w/o myself remembering.

Nice execution on the tool - my criticism is in challenging what the right recall mechanism should be vs. the input mechanism.

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by landryl »

Definitely going to give it a shot.

The way I study math usually (actually not usually, because it's not very pracrical, but the most productive way I found) is by locking myself in a classroom, laying all my notes spread on different tables, and using the chalkboard as a temporary playground to redo demonstrations and exercises, and sometimes explore ideas on my own.

Theorems and objects end up having a literal spacial position in the room, and I have to move around to study. It feels like being a craft man in his workshop.

It's fun, really. It got me excited to study maths.

But I need a room for it, and I can only get one if I come super early, before class starts, to get 3 or 4 hours of productivity.

Maybe a virtual one like that can work. It's really appealing.

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by jesuslop »

Nice concept. I'm thinking in a possible nebulous improvement. A potential problem here is that it can scale with problems as hundreds of notes are added. We organize knowledge in a hierarchical way, just as we do files in folders, or places in continents, countries, states, cities, neighborhoods and streets. Maybe a tree model of exploitable nodes, and order of magnitude slider, or something to do with what Prezi does. But yes, conceptual proximity as topographical is a great metaphor.

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by netsharc »

erikig wrote: post #29
netsharc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I first learned about memory palaces in the book Hannibal, named after the character in Silence of the Lambs [0], but the description there is of a lavish imaginary palace inside your mind you can wander in. I did use this technique to try to remember some physics formulae for an exam once, in my memory palace there was a room with giant equations. This website is a bit of a let-down for me since it's just a bird's e…

One cannot build a 3d world without first building a 2d map

And one cannot have a discussion with pretentious, profound-sounding, smartass one sentence replies.

Re: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

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Post by KillerRAK »

Very interesting. There’s certainly something to this associative memory phenomenon. Case and point. I stumbled across this on accident, by listening to the radio while commuting to work in the morning. Some shows repeat themselves throughout the day. If I hear the repeat on my commute home, I can recall an amazing number of details around my morning commute at the same time in the show. It’s pretty amazing and I’m trying to find a way to exploit this outside of listening to Howard Stern on my commute to/from work. :-)
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