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Worth noting that this is written by a 15 year old. This looks interesting, nice integration with Elasticsearch as well. However, I see and have tried tools li
by siraben 6y ago
Worth noting that this is written by a 15 year old.
This looks interesting, nice integration with Elasticsearch as well. However, I see and have tried tools like this several times in the past (tiddlywiki, org-brain, etc.) and haven't been able to stay on it, always reverting to paper, or, more recently, reMarkable tablet notebooks. Is it just me or it requires quite a bit of motivation and dedication to stick to it?
- etherio 6y agoYeah. The idea of paper notebooks that could use ocr to export the paper notebook to a digital notebook would be really cool because digital is more flexible but paper feels more natural.
- apearson 6y agoLike a Livescribe pen?
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 6y agoThere's a cheap product called whitelines. Which might be interesting to you.
- Geezus_42 6y agoI don't understand the saleing point of whitelines. Their app just takes a picture and converts it to a PDF which is the same thing Adobe Scan, cam2scan, and probably a million other apps do except those apps don't require you buy special paper.
- ggrrhh_ta 6y agoI wish I had again the intellectual confidence I had when I was 15...
- ahnick 6y agoHow do you like the reMarkable tablet? What does your workflow with it look like?
- siraben 6y agoI enjoy it greatly! Since using it in the spring semester of university I have not used a paper notebook, and it's definitely led me to read more books and papers. There's also a great hacking element to it[0], since you get root access out of the box. [0] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
- breakfastduck 6y agoThat's really cool. I had no idea the reMarkable was that kind of product. Shows that user contribution to a platform can be part of its success.
- ssb1 6y agoIt sure can, but they're not super supportive. https://remarkable.engineering/ https://remarkable.engineering/ is very terse and the linked GitHub org is not very active.
- enchiridion 6y agoDo you know if there is a way to treat the remarkable as almost a paper screen connected to my computer? I'd like to be able to seamlessly "print" a PDF to it.
- dflock 6y agoThere's a CUPS script here that lets you print to their cloud service, which auto-syncs to the tablet: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#cloud-tools https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#cloud-tools - among other options in that list.
- ldng 6y ago
- allenu 6y agoIt's funny because I used to be more obsessive about storing my knowledge when I was younger. I kept track of tidbits of information using various systems (emacs wiki mode or OneNote), but as with you, I always reverted to paper, not so I could "look up" information again, but as a way of sketching out ideas. I might refer to the notes a few weeks later, but beyond that, likely not. Now that I'm in my 40s, I don't care as much about recording information I encounter (other than for work). If it's worth knowing, I can look it up again. If not, ignorance is bliss.
- grugagag 6y agoSame here, 40 and not very information junky anymore. But it probably has to do with the fact that anything is nowadays searchable online and also that there is so much information (even here on HN) that if you save it even selectively it is a sea of information. I use the "one tab" plugin and rather than closing the tab I save it to the one tab archive. Most of the time I never look at it again
- nikisweeting 6y agoI noticed this was the case when I used tools that made it hard to search through my archives. But once I switched to tools with better full-text search, I actually find myself using my archive all the time. It turns out just knowing that I have it and that its easy to search lets me rely on it a lot more when doing research on things I've read about before.
- grugagag 6y agoIt could be and you're probably right, I just personally lost interest in preserving too much information. Of course once in a while I come across a piece of info that I do save but whatever I slap into some text files is enough to me, most of the time I don't need to look it up anyway or I forget it even exists. And regularly I purge it and that feels good. Maybe I've reached my limits... But I do understand the need if one's line of work requires to or there's a need to for research, these tools can be very useful.
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- edgarvaldes 6y agoAfter trying dozens of tools, I settled on MyBase for work related notes.
- Naac 6y agoI think the key is to make your knowledge base accessible from anywhere. I have my tiddlywiki hosted on a server that I can reach from any computer ( work, home, phone, etc. ) So the only barrier to use it, is opening a new tab and typing some notes. The bigger the barrier between brain thought and writing something down, the lower the likelihood of usage. To be fair, sometimes I'm even too lazy to open a new tab and add an entry in my wiki. I haven't solved this problem yet.
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- O_H_E 6y agoOoh, I have been eyeing reMarkable. Do you have any comments on your experience?