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Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI? by rupi on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:31AM (#39790031)
I love this. I have my commonplace book in Roam Research. Search in Roam is not perfect and I have wondered lately if there was a way to get all of the content into a graph DB and then query using LLMs. But I haven't had time to tinker with it - I am sure open source libraries exist that do exactly this.

Can your library take all highlights from Readwise or just Kindle? I use Readwise Reader quite a bit and will love something that takes everything I save + all highlights + other places (Roam Research, Email, Calendar) etc. and I can just ask it questions.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI? by _bramses on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:42AM (#39790124)
You definitely could! Funnily enough, I have a function named "justBooks()" [1] that filters the Readwise export to just book type tags, but you could use the entire export, or whatever upstream method you want. I think much like journaling, every one's use case will be catered to their own tasks/quotes/ideas, but allow me to share centralized advice. You'll definitely need: 1) a database that supports vectors, I use Postgres 2) a low friction way to get your "new" highlights from your reading practice, I use Readwise 3) an llm to "cache" transformations [2]. This transformation does an insane amount of work, and takes it to the next level in terms of utility, I wouldn't skip it.

[1] - https://github.com/bramses/quoordinates/blob/1b9d1fadaded98b... [2] - https://github.com/bramses/quoordinates/blob/1b9d1fadaded98b...

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