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Others and I without digging that much have expressed something similar, i.e. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/so7os8/notdeft_notes_manager_with_xapiane
by kkfx 4y ago
Others and I without digging that much have expressed something similar, i.e.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/so7os8/notdeft_notes_manager_with_xapianefficient/hw7opus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/so7os8/notdeft_notes...
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/speq69/uomf_pathindependent_links_to_local_files_via/ https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/speq69/uomf_pathinde...
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zl8nfa/is_there_something_like_org_roam_but_for_files/ https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zl8nfa/is_there_some...
https://takeonrules.com/2022/02/26/note-taking-with-org-roam-and-transclusion/ https://takeonrules.com/2022/02/26/note-taking-with-org-roam...
The long story short is that we need something to process text automatically in easy to compose and easy to query ways. Emacs peoples mostly hate databases, and SOME DB models are strict, hard to keep bending, graph DB have not succeed so much so far, so it might be ad unsolved problem, a VERY OLD one, let's say:
- ~612 BC Ashurbanipal of Nineveh cataloguing system
- ~245 BC Callimacus Pinakes cataloguing system
- ~1545 libraries of Babel by Conrad Gessner
- 1673-94 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Scrinium Literatum
- ... to the Mundaneum (Paul Otlet/Henry La Fontaine)
- ... to the web first concept, the search engine concept
...
Natural language is not much computable directly, some modern ML tools try to work on it, some classic algorithms try to do the same, most results are not much good at small scale, they are just good at very large scale for very limited results.
But the point of Emacs is another, is the LispM concept, witch was also the Xerox PARC Smalltalk workstations concept: as we need ways to act on text with automation so we need OSes as a single application, where the source is live, changeable, where anything is a function the user can use anywhere so that if I have a CAS on my desktop I can solve and ODE with it inside an email and link the email in a paper.
Old systems was limited by the tech of their time, Emacs by the size of its community and the burden of legacy it have, but they show a starting point that's effective. The rest is still to be invented, implemented and done. NO OTHER TOOLS so far have proven to be better in general so...