bartb
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- January 2018
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- 71
- Last active
- 10/4/2025
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AI-infused
10/4/2025
I understand your concerns. I try to be careful what material I supply to these tools when I'm using them. For instance, I use NotebookLM as a "smart intern" to review podcasts, books and long from ar...
AI-infused
10/3/2025
OK ... I will admit after heavy experimenting with numerous tools and models - I find myself returning frequently to NotebookLM. If only I had this tool in my university days !!!!
Zettelgarden
1/3/2025
This https://nsavage.substack.com/p/beyond-rag-building-a-knowledge-management has led me to this https://github.com/NickSavage/Zettelgarden
"A personal knowledge management system implemented with ...
ProNotes: Apple Notes extension
8/6/2024
I find myself using Apple Notes more often than I thought I would. This looks kind of interesting. Has anybody tried using it in their daily workflow?
https://www.pronotes.app
Thanks,
bb
The elephant in the room: AI
7/8/2024
There is so much going on in this field! Friends and family (non-technical) bombard me with questions constantly. I urge them all to read Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick. ...
A long overdue update for Outline
9/4/2023
Darn it ... another one goes subscription only! It is a nice app but I'm not a fan of subscription only model. Looks like Keep It and Growly Notes are still non-subscription.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Wel...
Another one goes subscription
9/3/2023
These are all Mac products
https://growlybird.com/notes/
http://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
https://danschimpf.com/ (MacJournal)
https://www.notebooksapp.com/mac/
https://outline.app/mac. (Be...
Another one goes subscription
9/2/2023
I'm pretty sure it's now called Keep It https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
Regarding LastPass: I highly recommend the following article - good overview and recommendations:
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/my-philosophy-and-recommendations-around-the-lastpass-breaches/
Hea...
Robot writing apps
11/14/2022
IMHO: I don't know jack about trading programs (and it does appear they're not very effective at trading) but I think generative AI is going to go in a very interesting directions. Please see the foll...
The future of OneNote
10/29/2022
Talk about following the bouncing ball of Microsoft Office updates!!! Yuk!
nb: Just came across this on Hacker News
10/11/2022
https://xwmx.github.io/nb/
nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application with:
plain text data storage,
encryption,
filtering, pinning...
AlphaSmart was created in 1992 by two previous Apple Computer engineers, Ketan Kothari and Joe Barrus [with the mission to "develop and market affordable, portable personal learning solutions for the ...
Microsoft is sucking everything up into the Cloud (u need to use OneDrive with OneNote) and OneNote files are in a propritary format and the export function kind of sucks. I loved OneNote but MS is go...
Bill (or anyone in he know)... how similar is Keep It to Microsoft OneNote?
https://www.noteapps.info/
12/27/2021
Thanks for this post! I get questions from friends and family on this subject. Link will be a big help!
FYI - u need to drop the comma from the end of your link ... getting page not found
rafael co...
OneNote Tagging Kit
8/19/2021
Agreed!
UpNote continues to improve
8/13/2021
Thanks for the video links! Interesting. Looks like a light weight OneNote. I've been using OneNote since 1.0 (currently using version 16.29 for the Mac). I'm a huge fan of OneNote but not Microsoft....
Ken wrote:
Andy Brice wrote:
>I wonder if it will last any longer than Google Wave did?
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>>--
>>Andy Brice
>>http://www.hyperplan.com
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>Yes, I ask that question about almost anything that google ...
Totally off-piste, but...
4/23/2021
The new iMac's? They're going to sell a ton of them!!!! ; - )
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/19/2021
IRONY ALERT!!! After reading all the replies I had a brain flash! Many, many years ago I got in the habit of using index cards at work. I liked using them for various tasks, notes, etc. But they got a...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/17/2021
So imagine my surprise when I came across/read this blog post:
https://medium.com/internet-artist-collective/the-simplest-combo-to-maximize-productivity-6bd29c96eed4
that I actually tried somethi...
Thanks Steve !!!!
!!!! ... oh my ..... another fun rabbit hole to explore!!!! :- )
jsamlarose wrote:
This might be of use?
>https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-management
>Lots of thinking about knowl...
Roam Patrol!
11/20/2020
Sascha over at Zettelkasten has a different take on backlinks
https://zettelkasten.de/posts/backlinks-are-bad-links/
Paul Korm wrote:
The technology of Roam or Obsidian is not new -- the developer...