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by tconfrey 4y ago
Kind of a different take, check out https://braintool.org . Chromium only RN and no archiving, but you own your own data in plain text (org-mode format). Freemium, source-available and private. Its optimized for fast filing and
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Ownership and traceability of digital assets via storage on a blockchain opens up some interesting new opportunities for creators of those assets to be compensated. Check out https://tea.xyz where Max Howell (creator of brew) is
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by tconfrey 4y ago
This is a crazy situation. Unless something changes many millions of Chrome users are going to find that the extensions they depend on just stop working next January. As noted here many very popular extensions have not been updated in years
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Completely disagree here. Even by your definition, a bag used for groceries is being given a new life if its reused as a trash bag! The biggest saving on waste comes from a single re-use. If every plastic bag was used twice we'd need
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by tconfrey 4y ago
'Sustainable' maybe?
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Stripes Markdoc got some press recently: https://markdoc.io/
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by tconfrey 4y ago
From LogSeq's funding announcement today [0] "Because Logseq is built on top of Markdown and Org-Mode, it is also interoperable with other platforms and has integrated rendering and editing." https://blog.logseq.co
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Tools for Thought need a standard for data interop. It should be Org-Mode(braintool.org)
16 points by tconfrey 4y ago|3 comments
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Open a new browser window before you venture into the new topic. That prevents all those tabs from getting mixed in with your more essential work (gmail, calendar, jira, Trello or whatever). Open a new window again if you feel like you&#x27
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by tconfrey 4y ago
This came in just as I was about to submit my HackerNew extension to the store so I added it as an optional extra. Thanks @frabert! HackerNew [1] adds a 'hideAll' button to the HN top bar and an 'Open in new tabs' contro
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by tconfrey 4y ago
I only clicked through because I wondered why Yuval would want gold regulated globally!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I worked at Sonus Networks (now Ribbon[0]) in the early 2000's building VoIP solutions for telcos. We had a bunch of unexplained errors in a new installation in Denver. After much head scratching the engineers on the problem concluded
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Five types of tools you could be using for browser productivity(braintool.org)
3 points by tconfrey 5y ago|0 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
There's definitely a lot of randomness on what hits the front page. Generally the last item on the first page of /newest is ~30 minutes old. Few sort by new, even fewer go to thru multiple pages of it, so a post has half an hour t
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Scaling your system is always going to be a problem, no matter what tools you use. I hear you on isearching. To support multiple files you could look at ag.el for fast cross-file search (although not incremental like isearch). Alternately y
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thats a fair point. But I'd argue that as long as there's a large enough core of agreed upon functionality having app-specific data packed away and carried for free (as plain text) is not a bad thing. My app, for example, sticks a
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thanks @preek. I mentioned you guys in [3] above. BTW I'm actually using this parser: https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs for my product ( https://braintool.org ), so there are other choices. I guess the ke
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by tconfrey 5y ago
This is very exciting. IMO the Tools For Thought (#TFT) ecosystem is crying out for a standard interchange format to break down the silos. Org-mode could be that format. It's not just an outliner format, it's the best markup[1] a
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Obviously I'm biased since I built BrainTool because of my emacs/org use, but I also use markdowns and maintain the braintool.org blog on github in their markdown. I don't find it more readable. Maybe it's a familiarity
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by tconfrey 5y ago
also this one: https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Hence my example date!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
+1 for plain-text for all the points you mention, particularly "data-first with tools on top". But why reinvent the wheel when the org-mode format is well established and does everything you want, and more? There are an increasing
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Is the date format still like this: <2022-04-01 Fri>
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by tconfrey 5y ago
But can you get your data out of Vizawrite and into some other tool and edit it there? And will Vizawrite get ported onto all the environments you might want to work in? (eg does it have a mobile app?) The value of plain text with markup is
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by tconfrey 5y ago
EasyOrg looks interesting. I'm the developer of BrainTool, a browser bookmarking tool using an accessible org-mode file as backing store. I've long thought that org-mode needs an easy onramp. The copyright and blog entries ended i
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Buzan was my hero. I started with speed reading and used mind maps extensively for college notes in the 1980's. I've dabbled with mind maps on and off ever since. On paper with multi-color pens they really help you explore an idea
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Video Speed Controller - great for skimming stuff fast. LastPass - Everyone needs a password manager ScreenBud - quick and easy page capture/edit BrainTool - Bookmark manager with notes, search, keyboard controls and plain text data ac
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I'd put emacs and gcc by Richard Stallman on the list. (Obviously they subsequently grew to way more than one persons efforts.)
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thats the cool thing about org, its not just a great outliner tool and the best markdown, it also covers the full gamut of productivity and personal knowledge management functions (todos, calendaring, linking etc). That said, what would it
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Five Types of Tools to Improve your Browser Productivity(braintool.org)
1 points by tconfrey 5y ago|0 comments

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