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Re:Athens an open source Roam alternative by pbalau on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:49AM (#24501617)
> Because this particular task really feels like the killer app that we should already have -- frictionless, non-heirarchical notes that you can just dump into the system and then retrieve based on a few relatively simple axes, date, keywords, a little semantic analysis, etc.

The killer app is "context aware indexing", not notes...

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Re:Athens an open source Roam alternative by pugio on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:49AM (#24502457)
This reminds me of the truly excellent (as they all are) short story by Ted Chiang - The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling [0].

We've gotten pretty good at recording everything, but recalling it at the appropriate time and context is still the big challenge.

When Roam started becoming popular, I began hearing about Zettelkasten. It's yet another note taking system, except that it focuses on the context of when you might need the information, rather than just what's the best way to sort/archive it. A new way of thinking, to me.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth...

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