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2025-01-29 Notes

Front Matter:

Attendees:

Scribe:

Follow ups:

  • [ ] we want to make use of the use case studies from the survey
  • [ ] document your use case on github
  • [ ] procedural documentation on is desired

Assignments

  • [ ] Alex : a blog post of why this doesn't work, making frictionless
  • [ ] Dave : proposal for how the github repo should look like
  • [ ] Paul : workout stuff
  • [ ] Zoravur : research research use case
  • [ ] Erin : research relationship use case

Scratch notes:

The Thing was described. The Thing's Problem was stated: what to do for it?

Contribution Logs

What do you use knowledge tools for and what do you want?

Paul Prime: - uses: daily life logging - wants: digitize my soul

Zoravur - uses: Remembering stuff, note taking, journalling - wants: data exhaust captured and index

David - uses: at work, notion scratch pad for thinking through things - wants: general research

Ryan - uses: task and project management - wants: everything, second brain

Jordy - uses: consensus and understanding with other people - wants: connect better with people

Sasha: - wants: reflect on usage and better control collective-memex/concepts/algorithmic reflection

Erin: - uses: knowledge reflection, document process for work stuff, document personal life for interfacing with LLMs, logging life structure and routines - wants: database of all the knowledge that is Erin's brain and a hyper competent personal assistant

Paul^n: - uses: tracking and documenting job hunt - wants:

Workshop Time

Round 1

Sasha / Zoravur

  • non instant messaging, asynchronous communication, asynchronous knowledge base for organization
    • Jira but AI
  • deep quantified self
    • where you were who you saw for insights
    • cool correlations

Dave / Ryan

  • clarifying thought over time
    • graph of relations of facts
  • track all of the things, create a world model to make predictions

Erin / Paul

  • Social interactions, relationship managements, … CRM for side chicks
  • running todo list that updates for tracking what needs to do

Subline / Jordy

  • podcast
  • work management

Round 2

Ryan / Paul^N - health data diet / workouts - idealog and priotization

Alex / Subline

  • connect people in communities | community commons
  • maintaining relationships, communications, relationship half life measurement

Dave / Zoravur

  • CRM of social graphs, optimize your time communicating with people (grouping) private communication

Jordy / Erin - event log, GIS - personal sense making

Sasha / Paul Prime

  • auto recommender for life logging, associative context surfacing
  • shared media reviews controlled, privacy

Round 3

Dave / Alex - collaborative accountable similar research management, study groups with social shaming - research material management

Subline / Paul^n / Zoravur - ai avatar to manage dating life, digital twins - etherpad - A tool for personal meta management

Sascha / Ryan F - multiplayer knowledge garden - a news information provenance system, provenance of ideas

Ryan K / Erin - vibe noting into jobs (adversarial truth seeking and optimization) - Product Management / Decision logs

Paul / Jordy - conditioning, what do you want to read when you wake up feeling like shit - mementos