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by BlackForestBoy
2436 days ago
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Oliver here from the Memex team. Yes! That is indeed a major problem with all knowledge management tools. They tend to not be interoperable enough so you can easily integrate them into your existing workflows.
Also they are not built to be adaptive to the individual workflows of people, so you have to wait for the dev's priorities to be high enough to implement your features. You can't do it yourself. We are also not there yet when it comes to the level of interoperability or flexibility needed.
However we started from a fundamentally different angle by changing our economic model and not taking venture capital money: https://community.worldbrain.io/t/why-worldbrain-io-does-not... In essence what we want to achieve is that you can copy/fork Memex, adapt it to your needs and still use your old data and social connections. Once that transition is complete you'll be able to even use 2 different Memex tools at the same time, both maybe serving different use cases for you. May I ask what tools you use and how Memex in your ideal world would integrate them? What is the workflow you'd like to implement? |
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Using normal files allows me to store anything I need, whether it’s webpages as html files saved with SingleFile (FF extension), videos downloaded from YouTube, notes made with emacs orgmode, podcast MP3’s, eBook PDF's, etc.
Folders are deeply nested according to field/topic, and I have a git repo that ignores all non-org and non-html files. This lets me use ripgrep or emacs Helm to immediately search text for whatever I’m looking for. z allows me to traverse the tree without double-clicking through a deep tree of directories or cd'ing and typing crazy amounts.
So tools can be anything - Firefox with extensions, ripgrep, emacs, vim, git, z, or even whatever Python script I write to fill a unique use case that I discover for something that feels tedious. Normal files mean that if I find a cool program that does something useful with files, I can easily integrate that. I'm also working on ways to give me easier/quicker access to the metadata like the most recent files of a subtopic, or even add my own metadata like ratings and tags.
Ideally, something like Memex would provide some sort of api from which I could automatically query for all the browsing/history and text data, so I could potentially add it to my knowledge base in some way. Or maybe if Memex synced automatically to a DB file or some other file(s) that are well-documented that I could easily access, parse and sync.