Have anyone got something valuable from talking to your second brain? What kind of conversations are you trying to have?
Would be hella nice to connect all the scattered lines of thoughts in various notes on a variety of platforms.
Would some summary of previous day would be helpful to you? Is your memory problem only episodic, or does it extend to factual and kinesthetic as well?
Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged...
I applied to YC with an idea 'sorta' like this almost a decade ago.
The idea was to have a timeline of communications between all my contacts such that I could side-scroll a timeline with dots of actions such a "sent email" "made call" "sent text" received txt" and I could see all these in filters by contacts/day whatever...
This was pre-snowden, so I didnt have confirmation that there were already people doing this for me, just not letting me browse my own data ;-)
Can I get that via GDPR? Has anyone tried?
For Android users a more straightforward option is location history, but you should probably turn that off.
For example, if I stayed at an Airbnb last year in Houston and needed to lookup the address for some reason, I'd be going either to gmail and running some keywords searches ("Houston", "Airbnb"), or going to my Airbnb app.
Really, I want a single endpoint where all my personal data can be made available to me, ideally without sacrificing my privacy. Location's a cool use case.
This is generally called Lifelogging. https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html - roberdam@ created basically what you just said, but focused on Audio, not Video.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087 has some possible info too.
If you can collate your notes into markdown or some such, then messy notes can be handled, at least using Khoj with GPT3.5+.
Do let us know how we can help out and what your current biggest pain-points are?
It screencaps your desktop every 5 sec so you can watch a timelapse of how you spent your day. (Assuming it was on the computer!)
I did find it heavy on the disk usage so I wrote a ffmpeg script to convert it to video (much more efficient).
I've tried dozens of notetaking apps and that's the only one that truly felt like a second brain.
It's because of the speed. Infuriatingly, Obsidian for example can search just as fast, but they intentionally programmed in a lag after each keystroke... (I know because I removed it.)
Yeah, it's seems they've added a debounce. I'd prefer to set it to 0ms as well. Do you remember how you removed it?
https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-A...
Obsidian is not open source so it's minified and hard to read. But I was able to find the relevant code and just set the delay to 0.
(I'm away from computer now, I'll see if I can find the code later.)
What also helped is that all Electron apps are just Chromium so you can run the dev tools and the debugger! I think the hotkey is F12, and/or Ctrl+Shift+J.
Alternatively, you could get near-zero delay and no spurious queries by requiring the user type Enter or click a button... but that design is much less common these days.
However, updating Obsidian actually made it slower for me, because 1.4.2 is only available to paid users. So it updated to 1.3.7 and removed my patch!