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Have anyone got something valuable from talking to your second brain? What kind of conversations are you trying to have?

bozhark 3y ago
Traumatic Brain Injury. I can’t remember yesterday. Would be hella nice to connect all the scattered lines of thoughts in various notes on a variety of platforms.
- mlajtos 3y ago
  I am sorry. Would some summary of previous day would be helpful to you? Is your memory problem only episodic, or does it extend to factual and kinesthetic as well?
  - samstave 3y ago
    I want a body cam that I wear and it transcribes into something searchable from things I did... Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged... I applied to YC with an idea 'sorta' like this almost a decade ago. The idea was to have a timeline of communications between all my contacts such that I could side-scroll a timeline with dots of actions such a "sent email" "made call" "sent text" received txt" and I could see all these in filters by contacts/day whatever... This was pre-snowden, so I didnt have confirmation that there were already people doing this for me, just not letting me browse my own data ;-)
    - erklik 3y ago
      > Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged... This is generally called Lifelogging. https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html - roberdam@ created basically what you just said, but focused on Audio, not Video. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087 has some possible info too.
    - andai 3y ago
      Yeah, it bugs me that I don't know where I was a year ago but my phone company does. Can I get that via GDPR? Has anyone tried? For Android users a more straightforward option is location history, but you should probably turn that off.
      - sabaimran 3y ago
        Likewise! That was one of the impulses behind working on Khoj -- we have all this data about places we go to, things we do, websites we traffic, but such poor tooling into how to actually retrieve that information right now. For example, if I stayed at an Airbnb last year in Houston and needed to lookup the address for some reason, I'd be going either to gmail and running some keywords searches ("Houston", "Airbnb"), or going to my Airbnb app. Really, I want a single endpoint where all my personal data can be made available to me, ideally without sacrificing my privacy. Location's a cool use case.
        teepo 3y ago
        Might look into some of the tools like novoids Memacs. Notion here is to build tools that push feeds, history data, into Emacs. Using org in your use case with the Khoj tool, could be the "glue" you need to tie it all together. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme.
      - fragmede 3y ago
        Why should you turn that off? If you're afraid of being tracked, it's too late, you're already being tracked by your carrier via the IMEI of your phone, without your consent. Location history is there for your convenience so you can relive where you were a year ago.
        omniglottal 3y ago
        If you do not understand basic concepts like this, perhaps this isn't a forum where you should interact.
    - sabaimran 3y ago
      I quite like this concept. It would be neat if you could relay the data to a personal server for processing and insight extraction. Seems feasible with phone camera. I think gopros would be limited based on battery life (in my experience).
      - djangelic 3y ago
        I wonder if this is a better use case for “smart” eyeglasses? Audio as the input at first, have the audio files sync wirelessly to your phone, and apply the ML transcription and prompt keys locally.
- 110 3y ago
  Wow that's an intense use-case. I don't know how but we'd love to be able to support this. If you can collate your notes into markdown or some such, then messy notes can be handled, at least using Khoj with GPT3.5+. Do let us know how we can help out and what your current biggest pain-points are?
- andai 3y ago
  If you're on windows check out TimeSnapper. The classic version is free and works fine. It screencaps your desktop every 5 sec so you can watch a timelapse of how you spent your day. (Assuming it was on the computer!) I did find it heavy on the disk usage so I wrote a ffmpeg script to convert it to video (much more efficient).
- andai 3y ago
  If you're on mac I would strongly recommend Notational Velocity (or the Alt version), if they still run (I know Apple likes to break compatibility). I've tried dozens of notetaking apps and that's the only one that truly felt like a second brain. It's because of the speed. Infuriatingly, Obsidian for example can search just as fast, but they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke... (I know because I removed it.)
  - kepano 3y ago
    Thanks for your feedback, this has been removed in Obsidian 1.4.2 https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-31-desktop-v1.4.2/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-31-desktop-v1.4.2/
    - andai 3y ago
      That's really cool, I appreciate that! However, updating Obsidian actually made it slower for me, because 1.4.2 is only available to paid users. So it updated to 1.3.7 and removed my patch!
  - nmarinov 3y ago
    > they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke Yeah, it's seems they've added a debounce. I'd prefer to set it to 0ms as well. Do you remember how you removed it?
    - sleight42 3y ago
      I need this response too.
    - andai 3y ago
      I followed this guide for modifying Electron apps. https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-Application https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-A... Obsidian is not open source so it's minified and hard to read. But I was able to find the relevant code and just set the delay to 0. (I'm away from computer now, I'll see if I can find the code later.) What also helped is that all Electron apps are just Chromium so you can run the dev tools and the debugger! I think the hotkey is F12, and/or Ctrl+Shift+J.
- fragmede 3y ago
  rewind.ai might be able to help

bozhark 3y ago

Traumatic Brain Injury. I can’t remember yesterday. Would be hella nice to connect all the scattered lines of thoughts in various notes on a variety of platforms.

mlajtos 3y ago
I am sorry. Would some summary of previous day would be helpful to you? Is your memory problem only episodic, or does it extend to factual and kinesthetic as well?
- samstave 3y ago
  I want a body cam that I wear and it transcribes into something searchable from things I did... Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged... I applied to YC with an idea 'sorta' like this almost a decade ago. The idea was to have a timeline of communications between all my contacts such that I could side-scroll a timeline with dots of actions such a "sent email" "made call" "sent text" received txt" and I could see all these in filters by contacts/day whatever... This was pre-snowden, so I didnt have confirmation that there were already people doing this for me, just not letting me browse my own data ;-)
  - erklik 3y ago
    > Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged... This is generally called Lifelogging. https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html - roberdam@ created basically what you just said, but focused on Audio, not Video. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087 has some possible info too.
  - andai 3y ago
    Yeah, it bugs me that I don't know where I was a year ago but my phone company does. Can I get that via GDPR? Has anyone tried? For Android users a more straightforward option is location history, but you should probably turn that off.
    - sabaimran 3y ago
      Likewise! That was one of the impulses behind working on Khoj -- we have all this data about places we go to, things we do, websites we traffic, but such poor tooling into how to actually retrieve that information right now. For example, if I stayed at an Airbnb last year in Houston and needed to lookup the address for some reason, I'd be going either to gmail and running some keywords searches ("Houston", "Airbnb"), or going to my Airbnb app. Really, I want a single endpoint where all my personal data can be made available to me, ideally without sacrificing my privacy. Location's a cool use case.
      - teepo 3y ago
        Might look into some of the tools like novoids Memacs. Notion here is to build tools that push feeds, history data, into Emacs. Using org in your use case with the Khoj tool, could be the "glue" you need to tie it all together. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme.
    - fragmede 3y ago
      Why should you turn that off? If you're afraid of being tracked, it's too late, you're already being tracked by your carrier via the IMEI of your phone, without your consent. Location history is there for your convenience so you can relive where you were a year ago.
      - omniglottal 3y ago
        If you do not understand basic concepts like this, perhaps this isn't a forum where you should interact.
  - sabaimran 3y ago
    I quite like this concept. It would be neat if you could relay the data to a personal server for processing and insight extraction. Seems feasible with phone camera. I think gopros would be limited based on battery life (in my experience).
    - djangelic 3y ago
      I wonder if this is a better use case for “smart” eyeglasses? Audio as the input at first, have the audio files sync wirelessly to your phone, and apply the ML transcription and prompt keys locally.
110 3y ago
Wow that's an intense use-case. I don't know how but we'd love to be able to support this. If you can collate your notes into markdown or some such, then messy notes can be handled, at least using Khoj with GPT3.5+. Do let us know how we can help out and what your current biggest pain-points are?
andai 3y ago
If you're on windows check out TimeSnapper. The classic version is free and works fine. It screencaps your desktop every 5 sec so you can watch a timelapse of how you spent your day. (Assuming it was on the computer!) I did find it heavy on the disk usage so I wrote a ffmpeg script to convert it to video (much more efficient).
andai 3y ago
If you're on mac I would strongly recommend Notational Velocity (or the Alt version), if they still run (I know Apple likes to break compatibility). I've tried dozens of notetaking apps and that's the only one that truly felt like a second brain. It's because of the speed. Infuriatingly, Obsidian for example can search just as fast, but they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke... (I know because I removed it.)
- kepano 3y ago
  Thanks for your feedback, this has been removed in Obsidian 1.4.2 https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-31-desktop-v1.4.2/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-31-desktop-v1.4.2/
  - andai 3y ago
    That's really cool, I appreciate that! However, updating Obsidian actually made it slower for me, because 1.4.2 is only available to paid users. So it updated to 1.3.7 and removed my patch!
- nmarinov 3y ago
  > they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke Yeah, it's seems they've added a debounce. I'd prefer to set it to 0ms as well. Do you remember how you removed it?
  - sleight42 3y ago
    I need this response too.
  - andai 3y ago
    I followed this guide for modifying Electron apps. https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-Application https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-A... Obsidian is not open source so it's minified and hard to read. But I was able to find the relevant code and just set the delay to 0. (I'm away from computer now, I'll see if I can find the code later.) What also helped is that all Electron apps are just Chromium so you can run the dev tools and the debugger! I think the hotkey is F12, and/or Ctrl+Shift+J.
fragmede 3y ago
rewind.ai might be able to help