roznoshchik
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
It's interesting to hear from more people that their onyx device works great, I've really struggled with making mine a part of my workflow. Also, I had no idea they now had color options. That's kinda cool!
Re the export to MD. I don't see that as a problem, the question really is about file formatting.
1. Do you have an example md file that's formatted in a way that would work for importing to logseq?
2. Export on a daily basis - would this go via api to somewhere? Or manually send you a download file on a daily basis? What's the idea here?
Re the highlights
How would you want to process them? Are you turning them into flashcards or just adding to a doc somewhere?
How do you get the highlights back currently?
I didn't realize kindle kept track of your dictionary lookups. That's a cool thing and makes a lot of sense to review those.
On that end, having been using this tool and process for about a year now, I've come to the feeling that I shouldn't worry about that and just think of it as a part of my daily process.
Rather than being goal oriented about remembering something, I've just started to trust that the information is in the system and the system works. Things naturally and serendipitously appear in my review feed and my memory and retention of them improve, but in a less planned way than it might be with a more focused process.
I initially was using the python port by ReadabiliPy, but it wasn't working as well as the js code in most of my tests, so I just switched.
But yeah, open to exploring different options to make it less complex.
One of the things I want to add to the application soon is some sort of "Post" function. Wherein you write something that synthesizes data from multiple sources and you can add in your highlights as quotes.
So really just a dedicated writing feature. This is another thing that's proven to increase comprehension and retention, synthesizing some learning into a blogpost or something like that.
So with integrations, that's the kind of thing that is perfect for integration. Because although I want to add it myself, there's no way that I would make something as dedicated and enjoyable as a tool that's only concentrating on the writing and notetaking experience.
As is allowing people to read elsewhere and import their highlights.
As is allowing people to review in some other place.
So I guess my perspective is that I want to offer a total experience, that's completely non binding and allows you to get the data out at any point to move it to your app of choice.
sorry, I rambled. Not sure that made a whole lot of sense :D
Do you mean that they aren't available as offline or vs code plugins? I personally use Bear locally. I find it's minimalism refreshing.
Today's been a bit of a nervous day for me actually haha, I didn't really expect this attention. Open sourcing just felt like the right thing to do for this app and because I just don't have all the skills :D
The spaced repetition at the moment is for the highlights. All highlights get marked at an initial level 0 and then move up or down depending on you reviewing them.
Eventually gets to the point where a highlight is shown to you yearly.
In the future I was thinking of doing some spacing around finished books or articles. Things like - you finished reading X 10 days ago, what do you remember?
But don't think I've thought through the details around that enough.
Thanks for sharing your story, it helps to put things in perspective. I wonder how much they've improved since you used them though. The website looks very sleek.