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Emacs org-mode is very powerful tool for personal knowledge management, but can be hard to learn, makes it hard to have the same content (notes) referenced in more than one place, and can be awkward for the hands. Finding other tools inadequate for various reasons, I wrote OneModel to meet my own needs, and made it available. If you touch-type, it is extremely fast for to-do lists and notes of all kinds, and I generate the project web site from part of its data. It is much easier to learn and faster to navigate than emacs, and you can have the same content in as many places as desired, without duplication.
But it wants to be more: It uses an internal structure that has big future ideas for knowledge management, like embedding code within groups of entities, or linking across OneModel instances, so you can choose to share data from your personal organizer, or subscribe to (or copy) data from other instances: like a wikipedia but where the internal knowledge is structured so can be used for computation, rich queries etc. Imagine asking a system: what villages in history had economic improvements in a 4-year period, all external conditions being equal, and what do those cases all have in common?--that is the long-term vision of the system. The vision and internal structure are intended as be a prototype of a platform to manage all mankind's knowledge as a usefully computable whole.
The web site has a few screen shots (remember it's an ugly prototype but works well! -- I have my calendar/life notes/todos/contacts etc in it now) and a demo system to play with without installing anything.
(It is written in scala, using a simple/approachable coding style that should be readable by most programmers with just minutes of scala knowledge--I hope--and uses postgresql for the data.)
I frankly don't mind if someone else takes the ideas and does a better job with them: we can do better than managing mankind's knowledge in the form of huge sophisticated piles of words: words are not the real knowledge but a superstrate over it, and they are hard to compute well. Feedback welcome.
(Score: 2) by CRCulver on Saturday April 23 2016, @04:18PM
(Score: 1) by lcall on Saturday April 23 2016, @04:42PM
I'm talking about just
1) What it does today, where my statements are true. I think if you tried it you could confirm that, or have something more specific to refute. And,
2) a possibility for future, based on the internal structure and how it could be used. If you disagree with how that could work, please be familiar with what I have said, and much more specific about which part, and why that couldn't work. Like sharing data structured in an object model, vs. wikis of today sharing unstructured (or less-structured) data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @01:46AM
Hey, while that feedback wasn't particularly helpful, neither was your response. I appreciate seeing you taking the time to speak for what your contribution does, but it seems this response was just defensive in nature.
FYI
(Score: 1) by lcall on Monday April 25 2016, @06:32PM
You could be right. I was at least pretending to be civil in case he had a good reason for the comment, but maybe not w/ the right attitude.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by JNCF on Saturday April 23 2016, @07:24PM
I think he's having trouble explaining what it is that he's made, but he has made something. Daydreamers don't have github pages. Nothing he's claimed to have implemented seems over the top. Calling somebody mentally ill due to communication problems is just you being an asshole. I almost modded you troll, but decided to leave this comment instead. Personally, I like the idea of seeing personal projects hit the front page.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2016, @08:27PM
A daydreaming teen trying to explain his idea (or perhaps an inarticulate fella trying verbalize his project) seems better than some of the weekend bullshit that show up here.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by requerdanos on Sunday April 24 2016, @12:34AM
Just writing to say that I hear what you are saying, but I respectfully disagree--I love seeing things like this on SN, and I have a lot of respect also for the author's work in a difficult area, namely information herding. I've tried and discarded so many to-do list/task management/notes management programs that they are starting to feel like weight-loss fads, and I'm glad to see someone with some vision take on the problem.