Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by walterbell on Thursday September 04, 2014 @07:50PM (#8271411)

Agree on the brains comment for lowest latency cache, http://artofmemory.com/ - are you using Anki for language learning? Desktop or mobile? Does each user create their own cards or are these available as pre-existing content (free or paid)?

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Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by eik3_de on Thursday September 04, 2014 @08:05PM (#8271483)

I don't learn a new lang atm but I've heard it works great for that.

There are shared decks [1] and you can create your own very easily. Whenever I stumble over a new fact throughout the day, I (try to) add it to my deck. To test the system, I learned all european countries with capitals and all US states in 4 hours total (spread over weeks, just 1-2 minutes spent every other day). It's really easy and fun.

I use both the desktop and the mobile apps, they keep in sync.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

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Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by walterbell on Thursday September 04, 2014 @08:21PM (#8271567)

Unbelievable list of decks & add-ons. Why doesn't someone give Anki $$$$$? This is how humans will compete & interoperate with robots/algos. The format should be at least as important as ePub.

I don't see any licensing or copyright terms in the list of shared decks, are those usually specified within each deck? A web search turned up this discussion, http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7a/proposal_community_curated_anki_...

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Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase by eik3_de on Thursday September 04, 2014 @08:27PM (#8271608)

The deck sharing web app could need some serious polish (if not rewrite as a modern web app). Something like fork/pull requests and diff would be awesome. That would encourage people to contribute back and fix bugs in the decks.

I don't know about licensing/copyright of the decks.

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