How to Make a Memex

Re:How to Make a Memex by NoGravitas on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:28AM (#22412981)

Can't believe no one has mentioned org-mode yet.

Org-mode is a mode for marked-up plain text files in emacs that gives you note taking, outlining, to-do lists, scheduling, project management, time tracking, and journaling. It's really a good candidate for a private Memex, and you can store it however you want, not just on someone else's computer. There are mobile apps for it as well, and somewhat less-capable compatibility modes for vim and VSCode.

The only shortcoming I see for it as a personal Memex is the weak support for binary content (images, audio, word processing documents). It does support binary attachments, but they're not presented very well.

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Re:How to Make a Memex by chacha2 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:35AM (#22413033)

This site sometimes feels like the Truman show, where each user has to pretend they're not just recycling the same three scripts.

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Re:How to Make a Memex by juped on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:54PM (#22416008)

No one ever mentions what I actually love org-mode for, which is being a super-easy brainless markup language that can compile to reasonable LaTeX documents, freeing me from LaTeX boilerplate.

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Re:How to Make a Memex by throwlaplace on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:42AM (#22414019)

I've been collecting the most frequently used tropes on hn. It includes such fan favorites

- website caused mobile phone to implode

- this math book has too much math

- this math doesn't have enough math

- cockroach db offends me in my soul

- org-mode does my dishes and tucks me in every night

- functional programming is the messiah

- functional programming is the devil

- software interviews are like being on a cattle car in Poland in the late 1930s

- people that can't pass software interviews shouldn't be allowed to reproduce

- ...

Once I get enough I'll build a bot that can simulate hn for me and then I'll never come here again

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Re:How to Make a Memex by myu701 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:14PM (#22416247)

I'll throw one I am DEFINITELY guilty of.

No offline? No onboard

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Re:How to Make a Memex by ASalazarMX on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:57AM (#22414787)

One I'm guilty of: JavaScript desktop applications are not desktop applications.

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Re:How to Make a Memex by throwlaplace on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:50PM (#22415966)

Will add to the list! Thanks!

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Re:How to Make a Memex by hprotagonist on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:49AM (#22413129)

not to mention https://github.com/jethrokuan/org-roam

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Re:How to Make a Memex by 1bit on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:31PM (#22416452)

"The only shortcoming I see for it as a personal Memex is the weak support for binary content (images, "

That's not an "only". It's huge. Also, afaik, org-mode only accepts no space tags. Ie I should tag a place as "GeorgesTownLakeAvenue32" instead of "[George's Town] [Lake avenue] [address number: 32]"

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Re:How to Make a Memex by Arubis on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:02AM (#22413224)

I have long loved org-mode and repeatedly tried to get into org-brain. Roam, to me, feels like what org-brain should have been—and I spend less time fiddling with it and more time using it.

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