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I'm intrigued by the Knowledge Database idea, care to explain a little more about that pkrumins? I may build something similar for myself.

by dood 17y ago

raju 17y ago
Me too. I have been thinking of something along similar lines for a few days now. Getting tired of having multiple notebooks, and post-its that I can't seem to find when I want them most Any words of advise here Peteris?
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Hi. I replied above.
pkrumins 17y ago
Sure. I had a knowledge database back in 2002-2004. It was an application that I used every time I was learning something. It wasn't too advanced, I had to do everything manually, but now I am going to automate as much as I can. Here is how it worked, every time I'd learn something from the web, I'd copy/paste the key information into the application from the source I was reading, add tags, wget the page (so that i had local copy of the database) and link to local copy. This was I was accumulating tons of information. Some days I'd review everything I had accumulated and add some comments with where it could be relevant. When I needed something, I'd just enter some phrase or keyword that I remembered, like 'linux security chmod' and I would locate the key facts about this topic that I had stored. Now that I think of it, it can be argued that you can do the same with Google, but it would be a bit slower, you'd have to see which site was it and you'd sometimes make mistakes of locating the right one. But if it's in the database, there are just a few results and you can recall precisely which one is the right because you added the result. It's you personal knowledge database, not the knowledge database of the whole universe as Google is.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  If there was a web app that did this would you use it? And the killer question: would it be worth a monthly fee if it really rocked and had desktop/iPhone apps?
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    Not sure I would use it. I would need the knowledge database to be customized exactly to my needs. Perhaps other people would use it.

I'm intrigued by the Knowledge Database idea, care to explain a little more about that pkrumins? I may build something similar for myself.

by dood 17y ago

I'm intrigued by the Knowledge Database idea, care to explain a little more about that pkrumins? I may build something similar for myself.

raju 17y ago

Me too. I have been thinking of something along similar lines for a few days now. Getting tired of having multiple notebooks, and post-its that I can't seem to find when I want them most Any words of advise here Peteris?

pkrumins 17y ago
Hi. I replied above.

pkrumins 17y ago

Sure. I had a knowledge database back in 2002-2004. It was an application that I used every time I was learning something. It wasn't too advanced, I had to do everything manually, but now I am going to automate as much as I can. Here is how it worked, every time I'd learn something from the web, I'd copy/paste the key information into the application from the source I was reading, add tags, wget the page (so that i had local copy of the database) and link to local copy. This was I was accumulating tons of information. Some days I'd review everything I had accumulated and add some comments with where it could be relevant. When I needed something, I'd just enter some phrase or keyword that I remembered, like 'linux security chmod' and I would locate the key facts about this topic that I had stored. Now that I think of it, it can be argued that you can do the same with Google, but it would be a bit slower, you'd have to see which site was it and you'd sometimes make mistakes of locating the right one. But if it's in the database, there are just a few results and you can recall precisely which one is the right because you added the result. It's you personal knowledge database, not the knowledge database of the whole universe as Google is.

ErrantX 17y ago
If there was a web app that did this would you use it? And the killer question: would it be worth a monthly fee if it really rocked and had desktop/iPhone apps?
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Not sure I would use it. I would need the knowledge database to be customized exactly to my needs. Perhaps other people would use it.