tconfrey

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by tconfrey 5y ago
IMO the question should really be why did plain text never catch on outside the developer community. Plain text is still king for coding, and technical people are more likely to be keeping notes etc in plain text. I think it's related
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I think the reason Google Docs has been able to challenge the MS Office hegemony is that they solved the sharing problem by putting the doc online and the ui in the browser.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Completely agree on the points here about organizational buy-in, apis, pros/cons of gradual convergence etc. I'd add UX into the mix. If these products have user-facing UIs they probably employ different metaphors, cater to differ
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by tconfrey 5y ago
No offense taken, I completely understand and this is the kind of feedback I'm looking for! The first version of BrainTool required the Google Drive integration to work and I quickly found that it was a barrier to adoption for some peo
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by tconfrey 5y ago
BrainTool creator here. BT is very much a private and local first application, see the philosophy statement[1]. I use the absolute minimal permissions required to do the job. 'Browsing history' means I get access to the urls that
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Good stuff, thanks Roberto. I'll give it a look!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Pushing back a bit here. I'm down the path a bit with Uber and have done so little SEO thus far thats its easy to see ways it can help me. I don't necessarily want to spent the time to review another tool. Surely you have a pros a
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Looks interesting. I've just started to spend some time on SEO for BrainTool[0], and have been playing with Ubersuggest. How does Katlinks compare? https://braintool.org
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I've had a lot of requests for Firefox. It will definitely get there in the reasonably near future. It currently runs on any Chromium-based browser, so Edge, Brave etc as well as Chrome. The FF api is just different enough (no support
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I'd almost swap to an iPhone for access to this app! Org is amazingly powerful but as someone here commented recently, the learning curve is a brick wall! I was an emacs user for decades before getting up enough momentum to tackle org
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Agreed, as I was mentioning in a separate thread, I use emacs/org-mode for text. With org you can layer on any other kind of process you like (tags, dates, TODOs, tables etc). I'd love to find some simple/automate-able way to
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thats a cool take! I'm currently reading 'Remember' by Lisa Genova[0]. She points out that we have 'Temporal' memory for events in our lives, 'Semantic' memory for facts and figures (divorced from when we
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I've gone back and forth on the ideal platform over time. I loved the feel of iPad/pencil but it was too closed a system. I'm currently using a Galaxy Note with the pen for mobile and emacs/org on laptop. I type faster a
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by tconfrey 5y ago
You should definitely check out BrainTool ( https://braintool.org )
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Mobile is a challenge for all these PKM systems, esp capture but also retrieval. Luckily most knowledge work is still done with a big screen.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
This seems too heavyweight to me, specifically step 3 with all the data structures and templates. There's just no way capturing all that metadata is going to pay off for me. I see it as: 1) define your basic structure for capture (I al
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I love this idea and definitely would have been an adopter if I had not already built a custom solution. BrainTool[1] is local- and private-first, I don't even want to know how to connect a user and their data. But I do want to enab
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I run my shells inside emacs and really like the fact that all my previous output is there in the buffer accessible to search/copying etc.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
It's seeming more and more likely to me that carbon capture has to be part of the long term solution. Quote from the article: “That would be a dream outcome from Glasgow, along with decision makers recognizing that any approach that le
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Is Carbon Capture Here?(nytimes.com)
3 points by tconfrey 5y ago|1 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I haven't seen Dune yet but my take on Foundation is the same as Krugmans. Asimov's Foundation trilogy had the same impact on teenage me as it seems to have had on Krugman. I subscribed to AppleTV just to watch the adaptation but
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Completely agree with this. The atmospheric pollution multiplied by the noise pollution makes leaf blowers the absolute worst! If only there was a way to make their users pay for the cost to the rest of us...
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Again anecdotally. I'm mid 50's, always been fit with a healthy diet and BMI range, but the weight had started to build up of late. I tried informally exercising more and eating/drinking less, with no visible results. Six wee
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Original Source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL09... "The area to the north of Ellesmere Island and Greenland contains the Arctic's thickest ice and it is predicted to be the
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Hole discovered in the Arctic's oldest, thickest ice(livescience.com)
1 points by tconfrey 5y ago|1 comments
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The subtitle is more descriptive of the article: "The revolution of machine learning has been greatly exaggerated." Its an interesting takedown of some recent articles with over the top claims. But its a pretty standard situation
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I love the idea of Solid and firmly believe that a user should always own and be able to access and manipulate their data in any application they are using. However beyond syntax, semantic interoperability is always going to be hard - maybe
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Yeah, there were some large mink culls in Europe last year: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/sars-cov-2s-spread-t...
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Beyond wondering how they got it, the question is now whether they are another potential reservoir of the virus. This thing is going to be with us forever.
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Over half the deer tested in Michigan have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2(arstechnica.com)
6 points by tconfrey 5y ago|3 comments

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