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Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

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Re: Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

#3

Post by ColinWright »

Wonderful product! I use it all the time!

Oh ... vapourware ...

How I hate these posts that pretend that this thing exists and is wonderful and tells you everything it can do and how it will solve all your problems, and only then tells you to sign up so you can get told when the miracle occurs.

Closed. Good luck, hope it works out for you.

Re: Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

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Post by renuka »

ColinWright wrote: post #3

Wonderful product! I use it all the time! Oh ... vapourware ... How I hate these posts that pretend that this thing exists and is wonderful and tells you everything it can do and how it will solve all your problems, and only then tells you to sign up so you can get told when the miracle occurs. Closed. Good luck, hope it works out for you.

Hi Colin, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. We're working hard to make Pensieve a reality, but we need to know that we're building the right thing. If you really are excited by the potential of an idea like this, we'd love to hear from you about how you would use it and what features it would need to be most valuable for you.

Re: Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

#7

Post by featherverse »

This is a neat idea but unless I can operate my own private version then it's not really useful.

I've got a private wiki that provides essentially the same function. It's not as convenient to add new notes, but that convenience comes at the cost of organizational sanity.

I tried using Evernote for this purpose and what I discovered was unless you can control it yourself then it sucks. Eventually they're going to have money problems or they'll get DDoSed or whatever and suddenly this vital resource you've learned to rely on is not available when you need it.

You might as well use notepad & nextcloud.

There are only 2 things an app like this can offer to make it 'special' compared to the thousands of other available methods. Searchable tags, and a convenient UI.

Re: Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

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Post by renuka »

featherverse wrote: post #7

This is a neat idea but unless I can operate my own private version then it's not really useful. I've got a private wiki that provides essentially the same function. It's not as convenient to add new notes, but that convenience comes at the cost of organizational sanity. I tried using Evernote for this purpose and what I discovered was unless you can control it yourself then it sucks. Eventually they're going to have…

Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely thinking about tags - even beyond just making them searchable. A lot of people run into issues like forgetting what tag they used and having a user-feedback and a UserFeedback. Also issues when a project name changes and so tags need to be migrated. Do you have that problem? What do you mean by private version? Do you mean running it on-premise?
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