When you say "Several people are already building systems like this", could you please name a few?
What feature do they lack from your point of view?
About trusting the cloud, what do you think? If the service would offer both local storage and secure synchronization in the cloud, would it be acceptable?
I'm not the commenter you're asking, but my take on cloud stuff is pretty simple -- it has no appeal to me and I won't use it. I don't mind if software has the ability to use cloud storage as long as I can keep it disabled and it doesn't phone home anywhere.
I haven't been paying close attention, but I've seen a couple of commenters on HN mention their systems. Largely it seems to be a bunch of different services strung together with scripts and it's just too much manual effort. Mostly, local ML models aren't good enoguh yet and everyone farms out at least some of it to OpenAI.
As to cloud, never. This system would ideally contain every detail about my personal life, and frankly I think you'd be insane to trust google or OpenAI with that no matter how heavily you encrypt it. This is a whole new order of magnitude in personal, private data. I wouldn't trust anyone at all other than myself with this.
My server at home gets free solar power and free geothermal cooling. I have no reason at all to ever want to use someone else's computer. I have plenty.
Yes, I feel comfortable, it's a matter of making the habit. Everything specifically related to the knowledge of my profession I use Obsidian. For everything else I use Notion. As for the use of tags, yes I use them.
1. Almost every evening, last time I feel I've done an accomplishment is few weeks ago when I've realized I mastered vi/vim command language. I wanted to learn it for at least 5 years and when I had several days off I just did it.
1.1 It was like riding a bicycle, the most challenging part were all parts before the first ride.
2. Always!
2.1 I know I can write down something belonging to one of important projects of mine (writing a thoughtful blogpost, collecting samples for future music track, grabbing something from the Internets for the sake of archiving) and if it is important but I have not done the simple thing of growing the work I feel like very frustrated. Any other cases of forgetting are not important for me, but I can always start a new project if I am sure I want even more information grinding in my life.
3. I have a rule of three slots. If I have remembered about some issue once a week, it is the 1st slot. Next time I move the issue to the 2nd slot. Third time is the time I got to solve the issue. I think I have maybe 4 unsolvalble issues per year which are about mismanaging the data issues - typically ends up in reorganizing something in my life, maybe buying something or writing a long letter to someone.
Thank you. But I do not feel like I understood your intent of asking.
1. what is the hardest part using Pocket?
1.1 how often do you open pocket to read something? (just approximately)
1.2 Just to clarify: do you keep your Pocket list clean? Or you are using it like a reference list for future?
2. Have you ever caught yourself on though that you can’t find something you read previously?
2.1 if yes, how often?
4. Just to clarify: Do you use anki cards to learn better?
5. could you tell me please about the last time you wrote something?
1/ I read from pocket 3-4 days per week. Biggest issue recently is the offline and text to speach experience.
1A/ if pocket can extract the text into a reader view, it will cache it for offline viewing. If pocket can’t, then I don’t get to read the article I was expecting to read on the airplane.
1B/ 20-40% of the articles I listen to while walking or driving, but they only work if the reader view is available, I must be connected to the internet, and the voice sounds pre-2022.
1C/ the search function isn’t great. I think if I pay for it, it will do full text search. But I think it’s dumb that I have to pay for ctrl+f.
1.2 not sure what you mean by clean. It’s not well organized. I have like 5 tags I use around topics that might be useful later, but I rarely archive articles or properly tag them.
2/ it definitely happens maybe twice per year. I use Anki occasionally, but only for deep topics (learning a new programming language, leet code), and not to learn blog content
5/ I write code and slack messages daily. I probably write internal documents one to four times per month. I’m trying to write one blog article per week, but it’s more like one month.
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Alternatively, I'd greatly appreciate if you could share your thoughts on the following:
1) List Organization: How do you manage your reading, watching, and listening lists? 2) Content Capture: How frequently do you find yourself copying quotes or highlights from articles? 3) Information Retrieval: How often do you refer back to your saved highlights? 4) Knowledge Storage: What methods do you use to store professional knowledge? 5) Challenges: What do you find most challenging about managing your knowledge?
Thank you for your time and insights!
