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by prionassembly 1362 days ago
I wrote a Python script (it's so shoddy and easy to recreate I won't even share) that will (1) look for definitions as words/expressions between asterisks (2) look for dependencies (words that should be defined beforehand) and (3) produce paragraph-paragraph graph -> minimum spanning tree -> toposort.

The plan is to take five-ish years of blog material that's nearly unreadable to people who haven't followed it from the beginning and produce ordered text.

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This is a great idea. On similar lines, I want to extract “routines” out of advice books. Every time they mention, “each day [say your goal out loud, drink lemon water, journal]”, it would add that to the book’s dedicated knowledge base under “daily.txt”. And to your point of, the habits could be sorted and ordered by when they were introduced, what pre-reqs, etc. The goal would to “digest” a book into an actionable operations guide - scheduled in your life..