I've thought of something like this, glad to see its been created. Love it. This is how I 'picture' things in my head so it makes it easy for me to organize. Now only if there was a file explorer like this I'd love to use one.
For organising information Temin has been an entirely positive experience for me. For the first time what's in my head matches what's on a screen.
Early on I expected that mental model to fall over as the amount information in a metaverse grew, but I have ~12,000 sticky notes/pieces of paper in my 'main' metaverse and haven't personally felt the need to add any search functionality yet. I'm honestly not sure if I know where everything is, or just how to get back to it. Speaking to a neuroscientist or similar would be great - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory#Current_theories
I'd also be keen to speak to anyone who has thoughts on Temin as a graph, as more recently I've been finding sticky notes mean multiple things and belong in multiple locations. https://temin.co.uk/#links does a rather poor job of explaining my current solution.
Regarding your question about why this works : I urge you to read at least the first chapter of Frances Yates The Art of Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory - how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page.
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Thanks for the book recommendation, I've started to read it. It's nice to get some history and depth to concepts I had some awareness of.
I do wonder how method of loci strategies stand up to bricks and mortar sticky note use in collaborative environments. In my day job I've felt other people moving and adding things to a wall as almost destructive if I didn't experience it happening (purely in terms of memory). As changes in Temin are written to a ledger a fringe benefit is you can play back what's happened while you were gone, which seems to sooth that.
For work, I also spend a lot of time writing/drawing/thinking with a pen, and most of the artefacts in my metaverse are created with a Wacom not a keyboard. Being able to remember where things are I put down to Temin, being able to remember what's there I put down in some part to that. I'm not going to trying to convert people who prefer to use keyboards, and I expect pen-first users will very much be a minority, but the research on retention when it comes to pen vs. keyboard is pretty compelling.
I'm working on a small text based rpg. Its written in node, but i'm terrible at frond end. Anyone want to get together and collab on a small fun project?
Might sound weird, There are a few small twitch streamers who are climbers. Maybe sponsor one of them with a few small products and see if it helps marketing. twitch.tv/mathil1 comes to mind.
I definitely would recommend using ScreenFlow for capturing screencast type videos where the content is at least a little bit pre-meditated. It will let you crop the screen after the fact, pan around, and do all sorts of neat edits. It's really well done and worth the money. It might fit your use case better. I'm not affiliated with it any way, just a happy user.
we actually have something in linux we use, which allows us to set a 'position' for recording (sets a border to record in) basically, and we mainly use it for confirming terminal output / quick runs of stuff while on screen shares, or in slack.
Its nothing thats 'ever' predetermined to be shown, its all stuff thats either on demand, or 'how did you do that' rather quickly.
being able to just hit a button, after i did the 'thing' would be super beneficial.
There are a ton of these now. Google provides OCR as part of their machine vision API. AWS has similar with Rekognition. As others have mentioned, there are dozens of others on less well known platforms.
Actually, based on my tests, there are only a few good services:
Abbyy (best recognition rate but by far most expensive), Google Cloud Vision (second best recognition rate), Microsoft OCR and... our OCR.space service with a very generous free tier and a competitive priced PRO tier.
Like a9t9 said, ABBYY, Microsoft and Google offer this.
If your images however differ from the typical text document, recognition from those services will fail. OCR is highly dependent on the particular application and the kind of images that you're dealing with. Preprocessing and segmentation are very important.
If you need a custom solution, my email is in my profile.
I can say from my experience dealing with system76, they are hands down one of my favorite machine producers, for both laptops and desktops.
I am trying to get some server units ordered from them for an upcoming test deployment for a new architecture we are working on and hope I can get buy in from the company to support someone other than dell or hp.
They're a great group of people, I agree. Unfortunately the machines are not great, at least from my perspective as a Gazelle owner, and from what I have read from others who have purchased laptops from them. I've never used one of their server products so I can't comment on them. I want System76 to thrive but they need to build a better hardware product at the price point.
I'm not a developer but i do code in my free time, and used company resources. and always had to jump through hoops. (doing work on my lunch hour, down times, etc, and ever affecting our bottom dollar or performance of machines).
I even developed things for the company such as directories, signature generators etc.
This is a great step forward for everyone, and i hope more companies adopt it.
It might just be your market? I got a job in 2 weeks after leaving my last position, and had quite literally 30+ offers on the table when i accepted this one.
