tconfrey

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by tconfrey 5y ago
No sorry. BrainTool is a browser extension and as such doesn't run on Android. One day there might be a dedicated mobile app!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Answering for myself I currently have 688 active links but I'm not a hoarder. PS The bookmarker in question, in case you are interested: https://braintool.org
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Ask HN: Who Has the Most Bookmarks?
4 points by tconfrey 5y ago|7 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
https://braintool.org - Bookmarker extension with hierarchy, notes and text search. Writes your data to a text file (in org-mode format) that can be accessed on your phone via Google Drive.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
If you are interested, check out my bookmarker extension BrainTool. For #3 BT makes it easy to save pages into a folder hierarchy with autocomplete and a tree view. All saved items have associated text notes (which could be #tags) and every
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Guilty as charged! I'm building my own 'unique' take on bookmarks[0] (really it is unique ;-) . I think the reason this comes up is that people have more and more stuff to keep track of, and more and more of peoples stuff is
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I put together a blog post and video showing how notes, bookmarks and todo's can be captured in the browser and streamed in org-mode format to emacs and LogSeq.
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Browser-based Productivity and PKM with Emacs, org-mode, LogSeq and BrainTool(braintool.org)
9 points by tconfrey 5y ago|4 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Nicely put. I've always liked the 'rotating the tires while driving 65 on the highway' metaphor for a big tech-debt/refactor project. I've worked in a couple of large and messy codebases where we undertook a big ref
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Agreed, very cool concept. I've thought about being able to manually grab page contents into BrainTool notes but having a per-topic custom selector would be next level!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Good call by Breyer, not falling into the RBG trap.
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Breyer to Retire(cnn.com)
2 points by tconfrey 5y ago|1 comments
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Google Wordle Easter Egg(9to5google.com)
2 points by tconfrey 5y ago|0 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Unrelated but reminded me. Has anyone else noticed that no one on TV or in movies ever says goodbye at the end of a phone call? Everyone just rudely hangs up! With my family (in Ireland) there are generally about 17 goodbyes ('bye&#x27
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by tconfrey 5y ago
have you looked at indiehackers? https://www.indiehackers.com/
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I was rooting for Topic Maps at the time. The notion of Topics, Associations between them and Occurrences of information about a topic seemed to me to be very powerful. I don't think they were necessarily meant to model mind maps (alth
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I've also been a plain emacs then org-mode note taker for a number of years. I keep a log.org file with dated items containing notes from meetings and major project actions of the day. I generally have my laptop open during meetings ma
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Worth mentioning here that LogSeq can work with markdown or org-mode files. In my personal setup one of my LogSeq nodes points to my BrainTool.org file which holds all my bookmarks, web-resource pointers and associated notes. This way I c
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Take a quick look at https://braintool.org Its an extension that saves bookmarks (+ notes) to an org-mode formatted text file that can be auto-synced to google Drive. The org file can then be edited and accessed from emacs or an
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I've wondered before whether self-driving cars, or even human drivers driving at a recommended speed, could perform some kind of traffic smoothing to avoid backups and stop/start situations. Maps is pretty good these days at showi
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by tconfrey 5y ago
My similar scratch-my-own-itch solution is BrainTool[0] - a bookmarking extension which syncs to a shareable org-mode file. Nested topics, per-item notes and tab group support. [0] https://braintool.org
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by tconfrey 5y ago
There was a good article on this in the New Yorker middle of last year [0], most of it probably still applies. Some points from memory: - much younger, healthier, less obese populations - more of an outdoor, or drafty, lifestyle - under rep
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by tconfrey 5y ago
3 pinned tabs with my emails and calendar plus 8 or ten working tabs that cycle in and out quickly. In addition to making things hard to find and bogging down your machine, tabs impose a cognitive load. Thats one of the reasons I'm bui
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Post the project on https://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/ or https://www.upwork.com/services/ and get some quotes.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Same! I saved up a long time to buy that ZX81 + RAM pack. And lost a lot of hours to the wiggle and crash! I used to put the machine on a book and hang the RAM pack off the back to maintain the connection. Good times...
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by tconfrey 5y ago
This is exactly the use case BrainTool[0] was built for. From its Bookmarker you can set a TODO and/or add a note as you close a tab and save it into the Topic Manager. Everything is saved to a private personal plain text file. I'
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Agreed. I don't quite understand "Orgdown1 < Orgdown2 < … ≪ Org-mode" and how each is defined and verified. But as someone who depends on transacting in org-mode formatted text outside of emacs it seems like a good idea
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thanks! I was a Tabs Outliner user myself and the BrainTool Topic Manager is inspired by it. NB BT can import the JSON exported by TO if you want to transfer your stuff.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
With the rise of privacy-first, plain text tools for PKM I think this is an interesting project by Karl Voit. Seems like there's a growing list of tools supporting org[1], including my own BrainTool[2] See also some further discussion
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Orgdown – Using orgmode markup outside Emacs(karl-voit.at)
23 points by tconfrey 5y ago|11 comments

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