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by tconfrey 8mo ago
Hi @cyrialize , Hopefully this is an acceptable level of self-promotion. It sounds like my browser extension, BrainTool might be useful in your workflow. It's kindof a bookmark/tab management tool. It syncs to a .org file and allo
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by tconfrey 8mo ago
I've been on this bandwagon for a long time! I proposed org as an interchange format for Productivity and PKM tools several years ago [0]. Org allows me to unify my bookmark manager with the rest of my PKM as well as to-do management i
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Ask HN: ~25KLOC Indie project. Best practices for AI facilitated refactor?
3 points by tconfrey 11mo ago|0 comments
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by tconfrey 11mo ago
I've been watching this trend toward SDD. Makes sense but it feels like the process pendulum is swinging back toward the pre-agile era of functional specs and design documents. Not quite Big Design Up Front[0] but maybe increasingly wo
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by tconfrey 1y ago
Take a look at BrainTool. It's a bookmarks/tabs/todo-manager browser extension that writes to an org-mode syntax text file. Allows you to capture notes, containment hierarchy, to-do state etc and expose it all to your org PKM
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by tconfrey 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Writing Studio! Note also that LogSeq is an org-mode based PKM ( https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-org-mode-compatability/8... )
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by tconfrey 2y ago
org is timeless for sure! Personally I've been using emacs since the 80's. But as the developer of a personal knowledge management application I was hoping that an ecosystem of specialized, easy to use, tools based on org would em
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by tconfrey 2y ago
Completely agree, on both counts. Users often ask me how they can edit their BrainTool.org file outside the extension. There's no way I can in good conscience point the average knowledge worker toward installing an emacs distro! FWIW I
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by tconfrey 2y ago
"Growing support is easing collaboration via org files." The same month this article was written (4/22) I tried to make the case for org as an interchange format for productivity tools [1] and pointed to most of the same tool
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by tconfrey 2y ago
Totally agree with this, having been in the situation multiple times. It's hard to get credit and additional resources for problems avoided and emergencies that don't happen, especially in a room full of excitable extroverted exec
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by tconfrey 2y ago
The Edge store was stricter in some ways but I find I can submit pretty much the same bundle to both. Note also that Edge runs fine on MacOS.
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by tconfrey 2y ago
While there aren't visibility-boosting features, don't downplay SEO on the app stores. That is, if your's is the kind of extension that people will be searching for when looking the solve their problem. The Chrome store also
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by tconfrey 2y ago
I think it's like marketing any other type of software or service online - SEO, find user communities, influencers, ads/paid promotions etc etc. In my case I got lucky and impressed a tech writer who gave BrainTool a write up on Z
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by tconfrey 2y ago
I've heard good things about ExtensionPay[1]. It didn't have what I needed at the time so I hand rolled my own on Firebase using a Stripe integration component[2]. As you probably know the issue with extensions is that the whole c
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by tconfrey 2y ago
FWIW I wrote a blog post on how to get off of Tabs Outliner: https://braintool.org/2024/07/01/The-best-Tabs-Outliner-alte...
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by tconfrey 2y ago
^This!^ With my app, BrainTool ( https://braintool.org ), I emphasize a visual hierarchy, but also allow notes and full text incremental searching across all saved content. Along with comprehensive keyboard commands, this enable
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by tconfrey 2y ago
Give BrainTool a look. Its designed to address tab hoarding by making it easy to file and close out tabs and tab groups and then re-find them with search and hierarchy and notes. Associated keyboard commands make it easy to open/close
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by tconfrey 2y ago
I've often wondered how important the tides are to the migration of fish onto land and our subsequent evolution. Our moon's relative size is another earthly anomaly and without the moon tides would be solar driven and pretty minim
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Late to the conversation but in case the OP is still listening - great post and I'm totally aligned with your thinking. You mentioned my app, BrainTool, in the post (thanks for the inbound link!) so I thought you might be interested in
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Have a look at BrainTool ( https://braintool.org ) Saves bookmarks into a nested topic hierarchy with associated notes. Text search and full keyboard controls. Everything is saved to an accessible plain text file.
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by tconfrey 4y ago
I think the general message here is that complex and complete architectures tend to fail in favor of simpler solutions that people can understand and use to get things done in the here and now. Its interesting to me that the recent uptick i
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by tconfrey 4y ago
+1 to this! Support your local tool maker building on text! My thoughts: https://braintool.org/2022/04/29/Tools4Thought-should-use-Or...
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Tabs == To-do's Every open tab is a pending to-do, if only to come back and close or bookmark it. Having hundreds of open todo's in your face the whole time takes a mental toll. For most people closing tabs will free up some menta
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by tconfrey 4y ago
I think there's going to be an increasing push for people to own their own data, from whatever application it is they are using. Tim Bernes-Lee's Solid [1] is aiming at that idea and a lot of the new personal knowledge management
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Interesting theory! I have seen previous replies on here saying non-FF is a deal killer. But any numbers I see show FF < 5% marketshare on desktop browsers, so I can't imagine there's more than maybe a quarter of HN readers on
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Thanks for this great feedback. You are correct that currently BrainTool is more focused on active curation than passive recording. My personal #1 use case is being able to quickly open and close the, say, 5 tabs associated with a project,
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by tconfrey 4y ago
I've 'shown' this a few times before but with minimal response, so I'm still looking for good feedback from the HN community. And since I seem to be asymptotically approaching the monetized 1.0 version I thought I'd
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Show HN: BrainTool 0.9.9a – still seeking feedback from this group(braintool.org)
5 points by tconfrey 4y ago|7 comments
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by tconfrey 4y ago
BrainTool[1] is a similar bookmarking extension that is open source[2] and syncs data to a plain text file (org-mode format) on Google Drive. [1] https://braintool.org [2] https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTo
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by tconfrey 4y ago
Hey this is great to hear @ews (BrainTool dev here). FWIW WRT this conversation, my long term hope for BrainTool is to generate a thriving ecosystem of shared curated topic trees, each one a little summary of a corner of the internet.

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