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Building a Useful Memory Palace?

7 pointsvince_liu11 comments

Hey I’m Vince, first time poster here.

Currently working on [unlost.ai](http://unlost.ai) that lets you recall anything you’ve seen or heard on your computer.

I personally struggle with remembering things and at times spend way too much time looking for a piece of information. Last month I spent 20 minutes looking for a flight ticket a bought 3 months ago and it genuinely ruined my day.

I also think that a lot of work we do requires previous context. For example replying to an email, I often have to reference conversation in other threads or websites. Or when putting a blog post together, I have to pull together different resources I visited from the past.

This is why I’m building it. To record and provide context when needed.

The next phase of unlost is to make stored context useful to your workflow.

Is this a good idea? Do you guys struggle with similar things?

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I think I've trained myself to keep most important issues rather shallow and funnelled through my email. So, that's the bottle neck. I do often think "Wow, I'm doing some data forensics on myself, ha!" as I try to search for whatever address or number that I need in the stream of the last 20 years.

I do feel like Google will nail down that for Gmail pretty soon. Having a conversational search instead of the old style search bar. So, I guess, if you can get yours working first you might be able to sell it to them in a couple years (or less).

admire your discipline. And yeah bang on on the google gmail part.

I think everyone sort of deal with this one way of another whether its storing in a note or todo or email app equivalent

The page is dotted with red flags: "Join waitlist", name dropping large names, vague features, vague screenshot. It's trying to solve a huge, abstract problem without saying how it does it.

If you could just do what supermemo does, but on Mac and handling anything other than Internet Explorer, I'd throw money at it. It has already solved the problem of "never forget anything", except it doesn't run on anything I use.

really appreciate your feedback!

the page definitely needs a bit more explanation on how it works and how it solves the problem.

I've just added a demo video on the page and will add a couple more per feature so that it's clear.

I like the concept, sometimes I wonder if I could get an AI to always know the context of what Im doing without the need of telling it, this could be a huge productivity enhancer. Like always having someone next to me, so I can just ask him about anything and get a useful answer, this would be the ultimate personal assistant

absolutely. Out of curiosity, when do you find yourself wishing that suck an AI exists?

Two things I use:

https://obsidian.md/

https://www.rewind.ai/

Great finds and yeah I'm thinking exactly this kind of interaction.

But the core feature being unlost providing context and shortcuts to the active app instead of search. For example, a dropdown of relevant data from unlost would show inside obsidian when curating.

Out of curiosity, how is this setup working for you?

Just to explain how it helps me. It lets me search past with text that might or might not match exactly. It can be a question.

the data sources are screenshots of apps I've opened, online meetings I've taken part in ,...etc

> is this a good idea?

Yes, if it isn't Mac only

out of interest which OS are you using? And do you have CUDA gpu?

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