LAlaybak·Oct 16, 2020
Hi HN,
Creator of Rumin here. It is not a polished product, but I think the community would find the concept interesting: https://getrumin.com/
Rumin is a combination of free-form drawing (create page blocks anywhere on the Canvas) and a flexible knowledge representation (undirected connections, hierarchical collections, and backlinks).
I am going for a free-form and spatial medium like paper, with the ease of edit and retrieval of a digital format.
The way I currently use Rumin looks something like this:
- Always leave one Canvas tab open, and use it as my "mission control": Brain dump, random thoughts, and journal entries go here. And I use a different Canvas for each thinking context or topic.
- Start a new Canvas for each research, brainstorming, or learning session.
- Hide the pages from the Canvas whenever I'm done to declutter. Th
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ey can be re-inserted (via search, along with the connected blocks) in any Canvas.
- Use the search bar, "related content" section, and the "fetch suggestions" to retrieve existing thoughts and reuse my previous work
It also comes with an open source web clipper to capture content from web resources:
https://github.com/jhlyeung/rumin-web-clipper
And I plan on open sourcing more of the product in the coming weeks.
Would love to hear your thoughts, workflows, and use cases.