Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?

#1

Post by alphagrep12345 » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

I'm thinking of creating a new AI powered note-taking app which has features like 'auto suggest', 'search using natural language', 'asking natural language question to get answer using notes as knowledge base ', etc.

What other features would you like to see?

PS: Suggest your wildest feature request.

Re: Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?

#2

Post by byoung2 » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 5:28 AM UTC

It would be cool if raw text could be parsed into structured data. Something like "Yesterday at 6pm, I took a flight from MIA to LAX airport on Delta" could be parsed into:

  {
    "date": "2020-10-09T06:00:00-0800",
    "action": "flight",
    "destination": {
      "iataCode": "LAX",
      "name": "Los Angeles International Airport"
    },
    "origin": {
      "iataCode": "MIA",
      "name": "Miami International Airport"
    },
    "airline": {
      "iataCode": "DL",
      "name": "Delta",
      "url": "https://www.delta.com"
    }
  }

even better would be to parse it into schema.org entities

Re: Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?

#3

Post by pfer » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

The best note-taking app for me would be like if I was paying a really smart person so that (i) I could tell them at any time of the day some info or thought I'd like to use later somehow, (ii) I could make queries of any format later about the data I entered.

The key thing is that I don't want to have to decide in advance how I want to use the information. I just want to store the information that I know it might be useful or important later.

(More concretely, I could see this being a single huge text file in which I can make natural language queries; each query generates a view of the file that corresponds to selected sentences in the file that match the query. For example, if I asked "what are the things I have to do for next month", then it would show me the sentences that correspond to things I have to do for next month. If I queried "exciting ML papers", then it would show me the sentences in which I link or talk about an ML paper, and I sounded excited about it.)

Re: Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?

#4

Post by alphagrep12345 » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #2

It would be cool if raw text could be parsed into structured data. Something like "Yesterday at 6pm, I took a flight from MIA to LAX airport on Delta" could be parsed into: { "date": "2020-10-09T06:00:00-0800", "action": "flight", "destination": { "iataCode": "LAX", "name": "Los Angeles International Airport" }, "origin": { "iataCode": "MIA", "name": "Miami International Airport" }, "airline": { "iataCode": "DL", "na…

How would you use this information?

Re: Ask HN: What features do you want in your AI powered note-taking app?

#5

Post by byoung2 » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #4

byoung2 wrote: post #2

It would be cool if raw text could be parsed into structured data. Something like "Yesterday at 6pm, I took a flight from MIA to LAX airport on Delta" could be parsed into: { "date": "2020-10-09T06:00:00-0800", "action": "flight", "destination": { "iataCode": "LAX", "name": "Los Angeles International Airport" }, "origin": { "iataCode": "MIA", "name": "Miami International Airport" }, "airline": { "iataCode": "DL", "na…

How would you use this information?

i would like to be able to search it by attribute, like "find me all flights I took on Delta" or "How many flights did I take to Miami last year"