BlackForestBoy

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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team Yes indeed, there will be no tool that can help you organise yourself without you as an individual being at least a bit organised. We hope we can make it a lot easier to not have the FOMO and work to save ev
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team By default that setting is disabled, but you can change to full indexing in the onboarding or in the settings.
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. Memex is not able to do cross-browser/device yet, but we are short before releasing our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as syncing between devices. Enjoy :)
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VC money prevents innovation and what we can do about it(medium.com)
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
We couldn't agree more: worldbrain.io/manifesto
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Yeah, we have that on the map too. Still need to make it run smoothly and factor it out into a separate library when we can. Limited (wo)man power at the moment to do this. Kind of hacked together at the moment too :)
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Indeed we initially forked Falcon to develop "Research-Engine", the first iteration of this. After we could validate that people really wanted it, we rebuilt everything from scratch. So no Falcon co
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
To add to this: We really take your privacy seriously. This is why we went out of our way to prevent using Google Analytics, the easy and common way, to do the measurement of user-flows. There was nothing available that did it well for bro
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Hey! Oli here from worldbrain.io So the search technology is horizontally scalable and should carry years of your web-research locally in the browser. (and still be performant) Yes we strongly plan to integrate with other services so you ca
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Hey! Oli here from worldbrain.io Yes, it means all data is stored locally and in the browser. Later we aim to make the backup & sync cloud self-hostable too.
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Hey! > it would be the ability to sync between computers/browsers, This is right now in the making :) Give it a couple of weeks and you can do that! > or fetch unfetched pages from history You can already do that now :) Go to set
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
hey! Oli here from the WorldBrain.io team Yes we are in close contact with the Hypothes.is team and may develop some shared components in the future. We already use their anchoring library. Internally we don't store the annotations in
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
hey! Oli here from the Worldbrain.io team > Is there any way to dump all/important parts of the information Memex captures to plain text/CSV/etc, or, say, a sqlite database? Yes indeed there soon will be. Currently working
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Heyho :) Oliver here from the WorldBrain.io team. Thanks for sharing your concern. Hope I can adequately address some of them. Yeah indeed we are collecting some data on how you use the features, so we know how we improve the workflows of
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by BlackForestBoy 8y ago
[ MEMEX TEAM ] Hey Hackernews crowd, my name is Oliver and I’m the founder of the worldbrain.io, the project developing this Memex. You can ask me anything about our strategy, our financial model “Steward Ownership” and roast me about the d