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Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by donw on Thursday September 04, 2014 @07:25PM (#8271295)
I have one, but it's not public -- at least, not yet. One of the hardest things to get right here is search. It's easy to drop in a full-text search solution, quite another thing to design search that works well.

My system is a tiny app that automatically grabs pretty much everything I do on the Internet and indexes it. Github stars, HN posts, Facebook likes, bookmarks, you name it.

I can optionally tag or add my own sticky-notes to anything, and there's some other neat tricks that make fuzzy searching a lot easier. Human memories are very story-based, and so if I only remember that I looked at something important about ducks when I was at a Meetup, I can actually search for that.

I'm considering productizing this -- email's in the profile if you'd like to chat. :)

Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by zrail on Thursday September 04, 2014 @07:58PM (#8271449)
Sounds like a neat project. I started putting something like that together but it was more text focused. I like the idea of automatically gathering data from other sources.

On a side note, I use mizuno for a project[1] and I've never had any problems with it. Thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/docverter/docverter

Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by smcnally on Saturday September 06, 2014 @06:53PM (#8279774)
I designed historian https://github.com/smcnally/historian to extend browser history to include annotation and tags. Browser history is majority of what you do online; chrome search is pretty decent.