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ilse-langnar / notebook

notebook

Tool for Thought. ʚɞ

2Distinct people
17Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
74GitHub stars
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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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-07-27 13:15:28 UTC to 2023-03-19 18:17:41 UTC.

0123452022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsNov 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMar 2023

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Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC514
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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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
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

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