cygnion

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   by cygnion 2y ago

   A product development and problem-solving workshop [1] for middle school kids. It involves storytelling and hands-on exercises around ideation and solution development, culminating in creating prototypes. I developed it to teach my children
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   by cygnion 2y ago

   I explored tools to export/interchange PDF to HTML in the KnowledgeGarden app, but the results were not optimal, suffering from non-standard layout and poor typesetting of equations. Publishers of scholarly articles generate web pages
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   by cygnion 2y ago

   Capturing and visualizing research knowledge is personally an exciting space. I feel that deep reading and absorbing content continues to be challenging, due to the ever-increasing amount of published research, rudimentary reading apps (Goo
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   by cygnion 3y ago

   I built on top of the in-browser PDF document-reading app to help me curate, visualize, and recall personal knowledge as I read and annotate research papers; the app extracts data from documents such as URLs and references and makes it read
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   by cygnion 3y ago

   Thanks for the nice references. When I read documents, I look to organize and link information in a way that helps me recall its context. Another realization is that papers are often read with different 'hats' - as a reader, as a
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   by cygnion 3y ago

   The approaches for information organization versus info retrieval are often different. For example, we mostly read content based on whatever fixed structure it's in, be it a blog post or a scientific article. Note-taking tends to follo
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   by cygnion 3y ago

   Nice idea and interesting space. I tried 'show counts by type_1 ordered by occurrences' and it showed a bar chart, as expected. But 'show statistical distributions' or 'show something surprising about the data'
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   by cygnion 3y ago

   Happy Friday! I have built a document-reading app to help me curate, visualize, and recall my knowledge as I read and annotate research papers - https://www.KnowledgeGarden.io The app also extracts data from documents, such as u
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   by cygnion 4y ago

   This is really nice - the simplicity of the interface and ability to read papers without sacrificing the readability of math equations is awesome. Congrats on publishing it. Do you mind sharing how you convert from pdf to html (if at all)?
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    by cygnion 6y ago

    Provenance, as a concept and specification, is well established in digital domain, as described by W3C's PROV specification https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ Ability to trace, audit, and reproduce artifact
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    by cygnion 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing! I was also curious if you apply your paper-pen markup style to digital content. Btw, is there a way to send private/direct messages here on HN? thanks.
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    by cygnion 7y ago

    Neat! interesting to see your context management system. Thanks for sharing your notes. I like to sketch ideas, so use pencil so that I can erase and refine. Curious, how do you manage information from digital content, e.g., notes from read
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    by cygnion 7y ago

    Using a multi colored pen has helped me mark important information and add my personal context. For example, during meetings or brainstorming I'll mark up information using different colors (red- to do, green- new idea, pencil- plain,
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    by cygnion 8y ago

    Nicely done! Thanks for sharing. I've been using Tiddlywiki over TiddlyDesktop (used on Win and Mac Os) and it suffices most of my needs (except drag-n-drop images and web scraping). TW's extendable macro and plugin environment i