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Right now, Andy is perhaps the most sophisticated thinker in this space sharing his insights and prototypes (meta-knowledge work, backlinked evergreen notes, sp
by joaorico 6y ago
Right now, Andy is perhaps the most sophisticated thinker in this space sharing his insights and prototypes (meta-knowledge work, backlinked evergreen notes, spaced repetition, new UX/UI for these systems, etc). Here's some additional pointers:
- Andy livestreamed a demo of him on a typical work session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGcs4tyey18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGcs4tyey18
- this Patreon post explains in greater lenght his OS-level spaced repetition approach:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173 https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173
- Andy is working on a prototype of that system, called Orbit, which might be available soon:
https://twitter.com/withorbit https://twitter.com/withorbit
- in regards to his specific writing/thinking system, here's a couple more clarifications:
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4AX7pHAu5uUfmrq4K4zig9x8jmmF62XgaMXm https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4AX7pHAu5uUfmrq4K4zig9x8jmm...
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2Gt5rAmfX https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2...
- Obsidian has a plug-in which replicates the sliding panes of Andy's notes:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/andy-matuschak-mode-v2-7-updated-for-0-7-new-panes/170 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/andy-matuschak-mode-v2-7-updated...
I think the space of graph/backlinked personal notes/knowledge systems is taking off [1], with many solutions free and open-source. (Of that list, many have spaced-repetition plug-ins not referenced there.) It will be interesting to how the field matures in a couple of years.
[1] https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6777802811416ba08dc114e0b11837 https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6...
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- awake 6y agoYou seem to know a lot about Andy. Do you know which tools he uses to write his notes and keep track of back links?
- bschne 6y agoIf you check out the livestream on youtube, you'll see that he does the writing in Bear (Mac/iOS only app). Presumably there's some custom code to export everything and build the HTML with backlinks, but as mentioned in the link posted here, this code is not public anywhere.
- joaorico 6y agoHe has shared part of his toolkit, namely the exporting and syncing of the Bear notes, and “link-janitor” for the backlinks [1]. Although I wouldn’t recommend it in general - it’s a brittle prototype. And right now there are better tools out there (linked above) many of which appeared in the last few months. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/enbk65/sharing_a_script_which_maintains_a_backlinks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/enbk65/sharing_a_s...
- branweb 6y agoThanks for the links! I wonder if Andy (or anyone else) has addressed the lack of images in these notes. Some ideas are expressed much better visually, but I have yet to figure out a frictionless way of integrating things drawn in a notebook or tablet into notes written mostly on a laptop.