Re:Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures
by bongodongobob on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:33PM
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I've had similar thoughts but over time you'd just end up with a private copy of the internet. You'll still have to search for the information anyway, so I'm not sure what the benefit is. Searching your knowledge base for "the thing I did yesterday" vs "how to sync Azure to AD" seems basically equivalent to me. You're just creating yet another thing to search.
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Re:Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures
by bloopernova on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:58PM
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That's a good point, you'd absolutely want to get away from adding another burden to the human.
Seeing relevant bookmarks when I'm viewing a specific note in my database could be useful though. And finding pull requests related to a subject might also be useful.
So the idea would be to reduce the number of searches performed by the human. Automate and enhance rather than dump and forget.
Re:Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures
by eichin on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:27PM
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Yeah, but your private copy would be more like "The internet: The Good Parts" (assuming you had a way to not store what you immediately dismissed as garbage; maybe only include pages with a dwell time of 15-30s or more.) That's enormously valuable (and why I've implemented it before - but in conkeror, which didn't survive the death of xulrunner - so now I use pinboard and text files and logseq, which are pretty good but a lot more work.)