Have you tried Heptabase? (https://heptabase.com/)
No, will check it out, thanks!
Readit NewsI've been working on having my notes better integrated with the content I read. I try to gather references to where an idea is developed/contradicted in the literature, or just collect good ideas.
Cahier (https://getcahier.com), the software I'm developing, supports creating cards with references to passages in the PDFs read.
It's exciting to see the developments that are being made in this area in the past few years.
Cahier looks like exactly what I’ve been hoping for for a long time. People have been taking “knowledge management” seriously for a few years now and we have a number of great tools like Obsidian, Zotero, Anki, and their brethren. But there’s still no real good solution to properly highlight and annotate documents, then link those outside their originating document into the broader context of one’s notes. Instead you end up with multiple silos—a Zotero full of papers, an Obsidian full of notes etc. This strikes me as a definite step in the right direction—thinking about knowledge management as an integrated process, with a workflow right through from reading, to taking notes, to organising those notes, to actively employing them to generate new insights and effectively write.
(I guess my only concern is around potentially reinventing the wheel when it comes to some of these areas. E.g. do you plan to integrate every feature from Zotero, like the web-integrated grabber? That sounds like a prodigious amount of work, but without it it’s hard to fully supplant Zotero as a reference management solution. I’m curious as to your roadmap for this and what you see as the ultimate feature set and user workflow.)
CiceroCiceronis commented on The Pirate Preservationists reason.com/2023/09/10/the... · Posted by u/fortran77
Respected, but I really hate private trackers. They do nothing for preservation because all of the torrents on there are not only hidden from 90% of people who would want them, but also it's all gone once the site shuts down (see rarbg.to for the opposite effect). Learned enough Russian to navigate rutracker.org and the sheer amount of good music on there that's frequently updated and seeded is astounding to how much of a barren wasteland TPB and 1337x is for things like that.
I feel there will always be a difficult interplay between public and private. Public sites encourage wide sharing and dissemination, at the expense of curation and longevity. Private sites (whether peer-to-peer or scene) can impose top-down strictures to encourage uploading and retention and a certain quality standard, at the cost of widespread availability.
But these synergise—we all know that scene and P2P film releases percolate from private sites to public ones, for instance. Torrents may die in the public sphere before being reseeded from an obscure, yet shielded and resilient, private archive (I have done this). The economies of private sites encourage the contribution of new content, which after a requisite delay is disseminated outwards to the public sphere. Light is the left hand of darkness, darkness the right hand of light. (The same model applies among private sites too as content is cross-uploaded, building resilience in the shadow archive. When one private or public site shuts down, that content doesn’t all have to disappear.)
I would actually argue that where public materials are less available, it’s less because of the private sites (which will always exist) being private and more because there are no public sites for that media type to be mirrored to. Think Libgen, which absorbs almost all contributions to private book sites eventually. Music enjoyers aren’t so lucky usually, which I think is because of the language gap between the major public music site that you mentioned and private music sites which are predominantly English-language.
CiceroCiceronis commented on Browse websites by fonts maxibestof.one/typefaces... · Posted by u/kosasbest
I’m curious, is there a resource that teaches font appreciation and utility implications, like color theories?
I imagine fonts are like a plot full of weeds, there’s all sorts of information they give off to people who know, but most people don’t have eyes for what they are looking at.
You can check out Butterick's online book on typography.
The Names is probably DD's best novel — what's not in these particular volumes, however, is his collection of extraordinary short novels that filled the 70s (Ratner's Star is the major exception; this is a monster-sized book, and it is a strange precursor to Stephenson's middle work). End Zone, Great Jones Street, Players, and Running Dog are all amazing portraits of the paranoias of the age — terrorism, bomb fear, rock & roll, long-running conspiracies. Reading DeLillo alongside JG Ballard's novels of the same era is an education in the social and political undercurrents running through the 70s and early 80s.
Having been reading The Names recently, DeLillo is certainly brilliant. For an author often grouped in with the American “maximalist” authors mentioned by sibling commenters like Pynchon and Gaddis, I have appreciated DD perhaps even more for his subtle and sensitive dialogue and exploration of interpersonal interaction. The lead and his ex-partner in The Names have that sense of tired accustomedness to their relationship which is hard to neatly encapsulate.
CiceroCiceronis commented on What Is Social Status? robkhenderson.substack.co... · Posted by u/jger15
All my life I have been fascinated by how people pursue and signal status. Interestingly though, there do not seem to be many books written on this subject. Please do recommend if you are aware of any that touch upon, conspicuous consumption, status signalling etc.
Both the introduction and the “Status” chapter of Keith Johnstone’s Impro book will interest you greatly.
CiceroCiceronis commented on Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time · Posted by u/ar7hur
I'm a medical student and one of my main takeaways from spending time in clinical environments is that a lot of doctors and other staff seem to either not realise or not care about how much time is wasted due to slow, inefficient processes and technology. I was wondering to myself about what it might take to train a model to recognise medical jargon to help doctors rapidly transcribe audio recordings of their consults/spoken recounts of their notes. Not surprised that somebody is looking to make a commercial product of it, there's definitely space for it.
CiceroCiceronis commented on Charlie Chaplin: official website charliechaplin.com/... · Posted by u/brudgers
Now, don't take this as legal advice, but if the company re-scans/makes alterations to the image for display on the web, I think that counts as a new work
But I'm a bit hazy about how derivative works are actually defined.
In the US context, it seems likely that the ruling in Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp would preclude any copyright in such cases.
What is the Obsidian Academic Stack?
I’ve been working on a stack which allows a workflow from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc > Word (with proper citations).
The idea being that essays and thesis can be written using Obsidan and then exported to word to be compatabile with the needs of other academics.
One key insight was that Pandoc supports Citation Style Language (CSL) so you need a workflow that supports CSL end-to-end if you want that a valid bibliography and in-text citations to pop out the end.
Here’s my overall workflow:
All your academic papers are saved into Zotero along with references to books, websites etc.
Zotero is synced to Obsidian, which lets you write papers and notes in Obsidian and add references to sources from Zotero.
So now you want to convert one of your Obsidian notes into an "academic paper". The tool you need for this is pandoc. The pandoc tool understands many academic referencing styles such as APA7 and Harvard. Specifically you install the pandoc plugin for Obsidian and configure that.
Once the pandoc plugin is setup; On the note you want to convert to an 'academic paper' you can run the pandoc command and it will generate a Word Document that automatically includes correct inline referencing and an auto-generated references section with all the references listed, at the end of the document.
I’ve been documenting it all here. Please star and raise an issue if you need any help setting this up.
https://github.com/evolve2k/obsidian-pandoc-academic-word-do...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313143