I still remember an embarrassing moment from high school when a friend said she liked metal, a specific band I can’t recall. Without thinking, I blurted out that I liked them too (and I did) , only to be asked what my favorite songs were.
My brain, helpfully, was entirely blank.
i was at a small, private concert and the guitarist wanted me to come up and join them in a song i only kind of knew. fortunately i had a good excuse not to go up, because my mind went blank thinking of the lyrics.
Just use Obsidian and become obsessed with note taking to the point it consumes your whole life.
But for real if we do get a brain interface, you will want it to be something you can self host with that kind of data.
I’ve thought about it but I know that will just become another unhealthy obsession.
And I’m way too fatigued to maintain all that…
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Black Mirror could do a great episode based on this comment
They already did
Damn, if only i knew which one.
Obsidian+Ollama
This is reason #8,334,901 I keep my partner around.
If I forget the name of the Chinese place we ate at in that little mountain town back in 2012 after the check engine light came on in the Cavalier so we had to pull off to see what was wrong and then realized we should get food while we’re there, I can just call it the China Wok and he’ll find the urge to correct me with the real actual name to be completely irresistible. And in that way, the drive to correct me and always be right means I don’t have to remember shit.
I’ve just started a new job with a lot of onboarding and my new coworker said “Now you know all of the things! I’ll direct everyone your way!” He was really confused when I tried to explain to him that yes, my hard drive has written all of the information I’ve heard, but my file system is shit so I’ll probably never see it again.
lol, I like that way of explaining it. My boss and I had a chat once about how our brains work. She said hers is like a parking lot, she can just park an idea and then come back to it when she wants. I said mine is more like a malfunctioning bag of holding. All the info goes in but when you reach in to grab it most of the time it’s not at all what you went in for.
My brain: Found 3 billion results in 0.23 seconds.
Me: None of these are what I searched for…
Ads playing in the background… Adhds.
At least they are in hd
If you regularly use Google’s products, they might be able to do this, because they profile your mind through the stuff you search for, your location, the images you uploaded to Photos etc.
It may not be exactly MY mind, but it’s a close enough approximation…
I keep lists of how much I liked what. Always rate stuff on IMDb too.
My notes app is MASSIVE
I won’t say anything… buuut…
Me too. I just feel weird having to consult my phone app during face to face conversations lol. Like I ought to know this stuff about myself off the top of my head!😭
Once you put smth in writing you have better odds of remembering it.
Without looking at my notes I can now say my favourite movies include:
Arrival Children of Men Paprika The Witch Dr Strangelove Memento Kicking and Screaming Mulholland Drive
I don’t remember to take the notes ;_;
Now thats just a habitual thing. Good muscle to build honestly.
I love stumbling across thoughts from yeeears ago and cringing
I take notes just to look professional. Don’t try to read my notebook afterwards!
If I could just give a recommendation for Letterboxd. It has a great interface and isn’t owned by Jeff Bezos.
I do use it too. But i have like a thousand movies and shows catalogued there and a move isnt convenient.
Also the rating system is meh on letterboxd.
I like seeing metacritic and IMDb ratings. Out if 10 instead of 5 is better for my brain.
But i do appreciate much about letterboxd. Including thr articles they put out.
I completely get it. It is also the absolutely best way to look up history.
Out if 10 instead of 5 is better for my brain.
lol, same for me. Not sure why, but 9 seems so much different than 4.5. I also love Serializd for tracking tv shows. And it does reviews out of 5 too.
I use trakt for TV. No rating there, just for progress
Do you ever manage to read it all?
Hahaha yep. I mean I have to set some time for a project that big thoand now I’ll move it to a word doc
Do you ever use your notes tho?
I find they give me a slightly higher chance of remembering on the fly, but unless it is something extremely specific like noting down passwords to things I use, it is too hard to find the note for the thing I can’t remember.
Similar to you, I’ve found that writing the notes helps me to remember stuff, but I found that my on-the-fly remembering really improved when I started to make my notes more findable by the use of tags. It doesn’t even need to be a formal tagging system — even just including “#tag” in the note body helps me to find things better.
The key to this approach is asking yourself in what context you might want to refer back to a past note, and to not just add a scattershot of possibly relevant tags. For example, if I’m writing down my thoughts about a movie that I want to talk about to a friend, I might write “I should ask #Becky what she thinks about this”, or “this reminds me of what #Sarah was saying about #thing” (if #thing is a topic I’ve written other notes on). I found that doing this became easier over time, and this was reinforced by the fact that I found myself referring back to my notes more often (which also helped me to make more connections between thoughts I’d been having)
Edit: To give an example relevant to the original post, I might tag a note about a good movie with #movie (I don’t need to qualify that with “favourite”, because that is too specific, and realistically, if I’m writing about a movie, it’s probably one that I like), or a brief note about a great restaurant might be tagged with #goodfood and #city
I use tags but in a different way. I have a poems tag for poems I’m writing. Then a few for worldbuilding different worlds. Just a lotta tags for different writing projects. One for dreams I write down right as I wake up from one. Etc. About 35 tags
I do. A looot. Especially recent notes. Like last week.
I literally just write 30k words on hallmark movies on my notes app lol.
Also I just need to remember one word of any thought and I can search and find it
Holy shit, that’s a journal not a note. A note is short.
Man 50k is a short book.
I am trying to stop myself from writing any more despite my strong instincts to do so.
I don’t want to write a damn book here
If you enjoy it, it’s a good hobby.
I’ve always wanted to do that but when I try on paper i always forget it and I hate typing on my phone but would be the best option.
Something like daily events at least to remember stuff. The best I’ve done is try and remember to snap a photo since it gets backed up and immich does a good thing of showing you memories when you open the app
Oh man! My girlfriend and I are the like the perfect yin and yang. I’m adhd and feel exactly what this conveys. BUT, my girlfriend is witty and nerdy, so everytime the egg roll scenario happens, she goes, “my notes say you did/didn’t like that last time”. And it’s eyewatering just thinking about it.
… keep a diary?
You only get the AI search results. Frequently wrong, hallucinating results that don’t exist and sometimes you reached your token limit and have to wait for a day until you can search again.
So like thinking?
Be careful what you wish for.
If you can search it that way, then others can, too.
They will be disappointed
No way, those egg rolls really are that good.
They will advertise and be rich
I’ll install an adblocker.
That ad blocker will get blocked by the interface when it upgrades to manifest v3.
I’ll install Brainfox instead of Broogle Chrain then. Or use the developer options.
You can do this with not that much setup:
- Obsidian app on the phone
- Make a shortcut on your desktop so that it’s easily accessible and there’s minimal friction to make a rough note (you can write on your daily note)
- Have obsidian synced to your computer, either through their paid service or something like Google drive / etc.
And now what makes it magic for me:
- Have a bash script that runs on your computer every once in a while and combines your notes into a single file
- Append that file into your LLM of choice (either online or a local one if you have that setup) and make a prompt that goes something like “you’re a NotebookLM style assistant with access to my notes, answer from knowledge of my notes unless explicitly asked otherwise…”
Depending on how sophisticated your setup is, you might get the LLM to automatically pick up changes in your notes. I do this at work and it feels like magic.
I always wanted Robocop’s ability to play my memories back on a TV.
Memex
