Open-Source Memex
Productivity
personal knowledge management
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
9 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Automatic tracking of interests avoids manual note maintenance
From 2 comments
I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more…
dx87 on HNThis is really fantastic. I've played around with Obsidian periodically, but it's difficult to groom and maintain. This approach seems more manageable. I'd like to start using…
nynx on HN
Chrome extension and inbox approach is a fresh idea
From 1 comment
I was worried about yet another note taking app post on HN but I have to admit the Chrome Extension/Inbox part is a fresh idea and really intriguing.
VectorLock on HN
Link-click tracking to build relationships is valuable
From 1 comment
This is a great concept, especially the link tracking. One of my early research papers was about a tab reorganisation UI that tracked the links you clicked to reorganise your…
hrishi on HN
Objections
Electron performance and native integration concerns
From 3 comments
Not OP but main gripe is that it fails to integrate with native environments and for efficiency-orentied note taking app losing that efficiency edge native environments provide…
wraptile on HNHere's a pretty good HN thread that highlights some criticisms of Electron: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733989
selfhoster11 on HNVery cool, even if I hate electron. :P
esseeayen on HN
Maintenance burden of note systems
From 2 comments
Vaporware is better than going nowhere! (Get it...noware...haha). Congrats on getting started. I agree with Obsidian - I think that most people forget the maintenance time it…
steve1820 on HNThis is really fantastic. I've played around with Obsidian periodically, but it's difficult to groom and maintain. This approach seems more manageable. I'd like to start using…
nynx on HN
Low contrast makes the blog hard to read
From 1 comment
This is unreadable for me, and I'd welcome any suggestions as to what I can do to my setup to make it readable by default. To see why, here's a section of screenshot:…
ColinWright on HN
Requests
Firefox extension support
From 2 comments
Very cool! Hope you might consider adding a Firefox extension too
meremortals on HN+1
tsherr on HN
Real CouchDB sync and authentication
From 1 comment
Do you then sync to a real CouchDB? Or, do you use PouchDB server on the backend, or otherwise? I'm interested in understanding how you eventually translate to Graph4j and how…
xrd on HN
Smarter knowledge discoverability and recommendations
From 2 comments
> Insight 3: Knowledge discoverability is a problem. Say your KMS is 5-10 years old with thousands of notes/ pieces of information, how do you sort through it? I think this is…
NickNaraghi on HNI believe knowledge discoverability can only be solved with NLP. Parse every article a user reads, extract topics, keywords, key concepts and store it is whatever your storage…
ComodoHacker on HN
Questions
How syncing with CouchDB and authentication work
From 2 comments
Do you then sync to a real CouchDB? Or, do you use PouchDB server on the backend, or otherwise? I'm interested in understanding how you eventually translate to Graph4j and how…
xrd on HNIt is definitely possible to sync with CouchDB. I've just found that the uncertainty around how to do authz/authn (CouchDB recommends, now, that you do this in your own proxy…
xrd on HN
Whether the project will be maintained
From 2 comments
This is really fantastic. I've played around with Obsidian periodically, but it's difficult to groom and maintain. This approach seems more manageable. I'd like to start using…
nynx on HNI probably won't be maintaining this unfortunately :-( You have a good point about interoperable components!
steve1820 on HN
Alternatives named
Obsidian
From 3 comments
I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more…
dx87 on HNThis is really fantastic. I've played around with Obsidian periodically, but it's difficult to groom and maintain. This approach seems more manageable. I'd like to start using…
nynx on HNI actually feel the opposite about Obsidian: finally a note app that feels native with powerful keyboard/action shortcuts, vim navigation and great categorization (graphs,…
wraptile on HN
getmemex.com Chrome extension
From 1 comment
There is also https://getmemex.com/ which runs as a chrome extension. My old personal KMS had a feature to load the local chrome history and display my activity on the daily…
crucialfelix on HN
WorldBrain Memex
From 1 comment
there is another Memex project with a Firefox extension. https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
thawab on HN
Tree Style Tabs
From 1 comment
Tree Style Tabs browser extension sounds relevant to what you're describing https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab
fragileone on HN
OrgPad
From 1 comment
This is interesting. We at OrgPad.com try to do something a bit different but still in the related/ almost same space - we want to make a system usable for normal people, not for…
kaliszad on HN