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This reminds me of this idea that someone had a while back to record every moment of your life with a GoPro-like camera, and then use AI to catalog the salient
by woeirua 6y ago
This reminds me of this idea that someone had a while back to record every moment of your life with a GoPro-like camera, and then use AI to catalog the salient parts for later reference. The problem was, predictably, that the signal-to-noise ratio was far too low. There was just far too much video to review to find the really interesting things, and so they gave up on it after a year or so working on it.
This is also the primary reason why I've given up on all these note taking apps. Once you get too much data in them, they just become totally unmanageable.
There's a real problem here to be solved, but I just don't see how you make tangible progress on this one without having something much closer to strong AI.
- karlding 6y agoGoogle also tried doing this via Google Clips [0], which is now discontinued. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917386/google-clips-dead-discontinued-rip-camera-ai https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917386/google-clips-de...
- darkerside 6y agoWhich is more likely part of a pattern with Google than a pattern around note taking software
- nexthash 6y agoI've noticed this as well - a significant problem with knowledge bases is that as knowledge builds up it becomes exponentially more difficult to organize. The article did hint at a solution, however: they are hiring machine learning experts to develop a system that reads into websites you are browsing and doing the organizational grunt work for you. Personally, I believe this is a good solution: throw knowledge in, let AI organize it, and provide a search function to quickly retrieve it again.
- woeirua 6y agoThe question then is will the search be as good or better than Google? If it's not (and it's exceptionally unlikely that it will be better), then it'll be faster to find the original source on the web via Google.
- cjohnson318 6y agoI agree. As humans, we're really good at finding the information we need, and when you have thousands of people every day searching "quit vim how" then PageRank takes care of the rest. What's difficult sometimes is finding the right keywords for your problem. If you're really stumped, and copy/pasting the stack trace doesn't help, then figuring out what to search is a problem in itself.
- hanniabu 6y agoBetter. When I create notes they're abridged with the important parts in my own words and I usually include a few links for reference. With researching on google I'd need to find the proper search phrase and content again (not always one of the top links) and then I'd need to read through it all.
- danielscrubs 6y agoThrow machine learning at it and it would again be that people are just passively browsing the web instead of trying to prioritize and sort out their thoughts.
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6y ago"Its like google, but it only searches the twitter posts you've liked"
- azinman2 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog
- pugio 6y agoDefinitely check out Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" (fiction short story) for a really fascinating take on just that idea.
- nitrogen 6y agoThe movie The Final Cut is also about whole-life recording.
- rusticpenn 6y agoAlso a Black mirror episode.
- jxramos 6y agoThere was some interesting chats in a minor posting recently Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app (dendron.so) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890035 I'll be looking into some of the stuff discussed there sometime.