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Metaessen.com is not only a bookmark manager but also a note-taking app. It can manage bookmarks, notes, tasks, projects, ideas, and more.

Main features:

- Practical and concise philosophy [1]

- Innovative Resource-Instance-System data model (similar to file system) [2]

- Simulate the real world (e.g. Use the above data model to simulate the structure of things; Limit the character number of resource content to simulate the A4 page in real world)

- Search and Filter

- Support Markdown and Plain Text

- Clean and concise User Interface (UI)

- Safe and protect Security and Privacy

- REST API

- Web Clipper [3]

[1] https://metaessen.com/docs/#design-principles

[2] https://metaessen.com/docs/concepts/#resource-instance-syste...

[3] https://metaessen.com/docs/extensions/web_clipper/

Re:I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken on Sunday October 04, 2026 @03:37AM (#49951556)
Too many rubbish talkings. It was written by AI?
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:41AM (#49878770)
AI is a better intelligence collection and analysis system, they need any information when you are using AI tools.

They are thinking: Please input everything you know, or just use it and it will collect everything in your PC or server automatically.

Stop lazy, stupid and dangerous behaviors.

Re:A Note from LWN on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:49PM (#49539018)
No open mind, Cannot tolerate criticism, Only donwvote.

The future looks even bleaker.

Re:A Note from LWN on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:17AM (#49537619)
I did not use LWN ago, and am worried the future of it.

It outputs content and the users read the articles. I think the value of the model is not big.

The most important knowledge and experience is from your own practice, thinking, experiment, and reality.

If the price is too high, many users maybe think it is not worthy of the price, especially because there are many free and useful knowledge on Internet.

Re:Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:36PM (#49492663)
How to develop good culture? Firstly remove AI.
Re:The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:29PM (#49492595)
> Crypto has become the subject of my verbal ire so often because it is the apotheosis of the grift economy.

AI is replacing Crypto on the topic in some sense.

Re:Norway Should Buy OpenAI on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:40PM (#49363876)
It's a test for business?

OpenAI wants someone or party to buy it?

It's too late, the sun is being down.

Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:11PM (#49363486)
Too complicated and the price is very huge.

Fixing small errors and keeping going on maybe is a good business strategy.

The last result is probably what you said.

Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:51AM (#49363180)
This is business secret.

No employee with professional ethics would tell you that (the real internal situation).

You can observe and analyze the reasons from some things.

Use it and tolerate the bad things, or on some time point go to other place (use other tool).

Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:13PM (#49323243)
> This mostly solves hallucination

Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies

Your question is like a story outline. You tell the film company that this is the movie you want. The AI film company then searches for existing similar stories. If similar stories do not exist or details are missing, screenwriters use imagination to fill in the gaps (remember hallucination? It's just a makeup.)

So you cannot solve hallucination of AI

Re:Claude: System Prompts on Sunday August 16, 2026 @03:18PM (#49322813)
Actually, I found the phenomenon too. I think there are two main reasons:

1. ycombinator supports many AI companies.

2. There are too many marketers from AI companies.

Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:35AM (#49296461)
I have the similar opinions:

We need to remember that the purpose of using tools is to solve specific problems and achieve goals. Having no tools, too few tools, or too many tools can all hinder the achievement of those goals. We only need to select a few useful, universal, and widely applicable tools. Unless there are necessary and sufficient reasons, we shouldn't easily switch to new tools.

For the tools we choose, one must become truly familiar with and proficient in their use, continuously customize, modify, and improve them, and strive to use them to the fullest extent, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, and solving practical problems and achieving goals faster and better.

Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:33PM (#49276743)
Rubbish article, waste of my time.

No confirmation for the title, rubbish arguments and logic.

> Good engineers have become more valuable because AI lets them move much faster.

Bad prediction. This is likely another AI marketing article.

Re:I won't read LLM authored fiction on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:31AM (#49207457)
How to detect which fiction, article, or review is created by fake AI or LLM?

There are too many texts generated by LLM on Internet now.

The experience of exploring Internet is very bad now.

Re:People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:10PM (#49184821)
Interesting, two anti-AI articles were flagged in around 2-4 hours. Finding no supporting AI articles are flagged. Why?
Re:Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:16AM (#49184143)
Why didn't you regard it as a promotion or marketing strategy? Actually it is
Re:Devtools must be open source on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:14PM (#49159461)
> The new personalization talking point appears to be coordinated. It is all over the Internet since last week.

I agree with you.

They are manipulating public opinion, fooling users.

Re:Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:05AM (#49155283)
My app metaessen even is simpler than your MindForger.

Just plain text or markdown format, name, description and keywords (tags, unique features: keywords have orders and bound time) for resources, structures like real objects, search and filter by text or keywords,

No inline images or videos (add images in the future), math, diagrams, AI / LLM, or other unnecessary things (my own values for unnecessary things).

Re:Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:35AM (#49154389)
I used Joplin, Sphinx doc for many years ago, but I don't use them recently.

I found they are too complicated, bloated, not easy to organize notes, not easy to access across devices, not flexible, no manual sorting, etc.

I like simple, concise, flexible and practical note-taking or bookmark management app. So I have created my own note-taking app Metaessen [1] for 2+ years.

Now I am just using my own app and pure text for bookmarks and notes.

Life is short, no necessary to use too complicated softwares.

[1] https://metaessen.com/

Re:Which web browser has no AI? on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:33PM (#49138191)
Because using AI or adding AI features can influence many aspects of the softwares (decisions, philosophy, UI, details, attitudes to users, privacy, security, etc.), and reflects the abilities and purposes of the developer or company.
Re:Which web browser has no AI? on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:46PM (#49137728)
"No AI", I mean totally no AI features, not the options to close AI features.

Which web browser has no AI?

I think it's time to stay away from softwares or tools which have AI features.First find the good enough web browser which has no AI."No AI", I mean totally no AI features, not the options to close AI features.Because using AI or adding AI features can influence many aspects of the softwares (decisions, philosophy, UI, details, attitudes to users, privacy, security, etc.)

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Re:Software for One on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:41PM (#49135938)
Go away from AI marketing article

Too many marketing persons.

Let them talk to themselves

Re:The End of an Era on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:54AM (#49123184)
Another wave of marketing from AI companies?

Only speak advantages of AI, no or a few trivial disadvantages.

More important thing:

Do you import new more bugs?

Re:The Productivity Mirage on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:54AM (#49110076)
Many comments were created by AI? Waste much time on them.

The main idea of the article is not clear, and the structure of it is not good to read

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