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ilse-langnar / notebook

notebook

Tool for Thought. ʚɞ

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I'm currently working on making the most(hopefully) editable and configurable software/browser/tool/app ever. Yes I'm trying to directly compete with emacs for the title. I…

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examplary_cable·Mar 19, 2023
With the accelerating force of information generation, I keep thinking about how to cope with this much entropy coming from everywhere. I currently have a pretty strict "information diet" as no to drown in the sea of words and words and words. I'm also currently working on a "Tool for Thought" but as a browser. Fully customizable(plugins, themes, functions, HTML as UI etc) https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Tool for Thought (2005)
examplary_cable·Mar 19, 2023
I like to use spaced repetition for everything. I used it so much it has become sort of a "Corgnitive Primitive" where I put everything there: Questions, Facts, Interesting Things, Calendar Events, Prompts, Writing Tips, Mutate-this-idea, Mood Controls, Historical Events and Dates, Todos(Spaced Repetition Productivity?) etc. One example would be: I've grown from a (...) to a (...). I complete the (...) with something from my current mood. This is good because I'm accumulating "Writings" from myself to publish a novel, manga or story later on. When I need to write something then I just consult my notes for everything I have written at that moment. I'm currently working on a tool[1] that has built-in Spaced Repetition(I made my own algorithm and don't use SM-2[Anki's Algorithm]) [1] https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Anki-fy your life
examplary_cable·Feb 2, 2023
https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook Project Description: It's a tool for thought, browser, note-taking application with inspiration from: Roam Research, Obsidian, SigmaOS, Chrome etc. I'm trying to have a all-in-one browser where I don't have to leave to do anything. Everything should be done inside the browser. Testing help: Anyone who has a non-linux, non-windows machine would be of great help because I need to fix the small bugs still. Contact info: On on the githu issues (:
In Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?
examplary_cable·Dec 14, 2022Submission

Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

What's you life work? What is it that you're working on, be it an area, company, game, language, subject, cause etc. That you expect to work until the end of your life? Starting with me it's a little bit hard. I have so many interests that picking a single one out of all of them is hard. But I plan on working on companies, causes, philosophies, books, areas etc. Some of the areas I'm interested in are: Intelligence, IQ, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Writing, Sleep, Comics, AI, Game Design, Meta Cognition, Zettelkasten, Linguistics, Design, Coordination etc. My current project is: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook. It's a mixture of Roam Research, Obsidian, Emacs, VSCode(in the future), Figma etc. I plan on making an online mode for people to share and collaborate with other people being as easy as sharing a link. I
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don't plan on making this my "Life's Work" because I believe other opportunities will arise as I go in life. Examples: - Minecraft(Notch) - RimWorld(Tynan Sylvester) - C++(Bjarne Stroustrup) - Java(James Gosling) - Linux Kernel(Linus Torvalds) - SpaxeX, Tesla(Elon Musk) - Growth Mindset(Carol Dweck) So ... here it is, what's something you're so dedicated to that you're willing to call it "your life's work"?
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examplary_cable·Nov 6, 2022Recommendation phrase
I'm currently working on making the most(hopefully) editable and configurable software/browser/tool/app ever. Yes I'm trying to directly compete with emacs for the title. I love the idea of lisp, hypercard, SmallTalk, Self Referentiality, Tools for Thought, make-your-own-software. I was inspired by many different ideas in software. Immediate feedback(Bret Victor-Inventing on Principle), Reactivity, meta-programming etc. If someone made a plugin, you should ... in principle be able to edit it, so you learn by "thinkering". Editability, learnining via example. All of this is done with HTML. To check it: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
examplary_cable·Oct 14, 2022
I used obsidian for a long time. But the problem for me was that it's "granular" enough. The basic "atom" is a markdown file. There's nothing wrong with that of course. But I wanted to have the freedom of simply writing something, without worrying in which "file" it would go. After that I started working on my own "roam-like" app, I took inspirations from Spacemacs(The SPC key concent) and use HTML as the "final form" of things. if you want to look at it's at: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
examplary_cable·Oct 5, 2022
I believe there's a sweet spot between note-taking as a procrastination cope and adding actual value. As in, storing important insights that might trigger more insights in a different context(future). The value of note-taking is undeniable, it's like a new "layer" after the neocortex where your memories are not exponentially decaying by the lack of usage. So utilization is not the sole factor for recall. If done well note-taking be be considered "externalized cognition" where you instead of holding everything in your brain and treat as a storage + compute. You just compute. Anything important will be there in your notes. This allows you to have more "mental energy" to actually draw connections between things instead of struggling to remember them. It's like the beta version of neura-link or other intelligence-augmenting technologies. I'm
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working on such a thing right now [1] It's like roam(outliner) but also have a HTML(plain text, stable) Engine for you to build more things inside of it. [1] https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Notes against note-taking systems
t_mann·Aug 11, 2022Submission

Ask HN: Recommendations for Spaced Repetition (SRS) Beginners?

Someone posted a link to a Spaced Repetition article a few days ago [0]. I'd never heard of the concept before, and it sent me down a rabbit hole of different introductory and literature review articles [1-5], more in-depth discussions on how to adapt the method for more complex topics like mathematics [6-8], some previous HN discussions [9-11], various mainstream tools [12-15], as well as some tools currently being built by HN community members [16-18] (sorry if I missed anything important there). I've also gotten started and created and practized my first few dozen flash cards on some new topics I recently learnt, and the first experience has left me wondering a few things: 1. Are there downsides to this? Most reviews seem highly appreciative mentioning practically no downsides besides the time commitment, which supposedly pays off many
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times over, which just always makes me skeptical. Downsides I could imagine include eg: recent neuroscience suggests that forgetting & memory rearrangement are important elements of brain hygiene, related to decision-making, avoiding things like PTSD and others [19]. How sure are we that we're not messing with those? 2. It seems that the most recommended approach is to turn things you want to remember into a set of atomic questions that take <10s to answer. Are you aware of approaches that integrate better with note-taking? I wouldn't reviewing an interesting essay or reproducing an elegant proof in full, not just small tidbits. 2a. + Any approaches that integrate well with journalling? I wouldn't mind being reminded of a nice weekend trip with some pictures from time to time in a purely 'here's a nice memory' fashion, not questions like 'Who did you go on a trip with on Feb 9 2020?'. 3. So the basic workflow I could much rather see myself adopting on a long-term basis is something like: take 10+10mins each day to write down what you learnt or did in the past 24h that seems worth remembering, and review things from previous days (with some spacing algorithm behind it, and an option to remove things entirely). Do you know if there is a name for that / any science to it / tools that support it (it seems the Ilse notebook might be going in that direction)? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32381206 Introductions: [1] https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition [2] https://andrewjudson.com/spaced-repitition/2022/06/03/spaced-repitition.html [3] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html [4] https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ [5] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/ SRS for math: [6] https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics [7] https://cronokirby.com/posts/2021/02/spaced-repetition-for-mathematics/ [8] https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2011/03/10/space-math-repetition-repetition/ Previously on HN: [9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895613 [10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24857437 [11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833581 Mainstream tools: [12] https://apps.ankiweb.net/ - seems to be the most popular [13] https://super-memo.com/ - the OG [14] https://www.supermemo.com/en - web-app alternative to super-memo [15] https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ - OS alternative to Anki HN community tools: [16] https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook [17] https://www.freshcardsapp.com [18] https://getpolarized.io/ Contrarian: [19] https://time.com/6171190/new-science-of-forgetting/
10 points · Open discussion
examplary_cable·Aug 10, 2022
I have read a lot of comments that appear to be a modification of "I used anki but the accumulation made me drop it". If you're interested, I've worked in a Spaced Repetition Algorithm where they is no card accumulation, you review whenever you feel like. In order to maximize pleasure. In the future I'll also configure it to give you subject you "feel" like reviewing at the moment, since pleasure is also associated with memory. https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
In Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall

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