Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization

[raphaelty]

My personal knowledge base is hosted on GitHub at https://raphaelsty.github.io/knowledge/. It scans the documents I like every day using GitHub Action, Zotero, HackerNews upvote and Github Likes. It's not yet optimized for smartphones. It cost me $5 to host it for a year.

[Nuzzerino]

Just my two cents: If you're saving enough documents to where you need something like this, you're spending too much time bookmarking and not enough time actually making use of the knowledge contained in there. I'm sure it's an improvement for those people though.

Would be even better if AI systems were integrated with hypergraphs of the sort, which was an approach some AGI projects were taking 1-2 decades ago.

[cttet]

For me bookmarking does not mean that I want to read the article, it usually mean that I think it may be useful for certain task in the future want it to be in my search result some times. Since sometimes I want to read in depth about something that I read briefly long ago, it is really hard for me to find it back.

[number6]

Knowledge Management sometimes is just elaborated procrastinating

[raphaelty]

I did develop this when I was PhD student in NLP. I think it's fine to learn to develop a personal search system if you want to learn.

[Terretta]

> you're spending too much time bookmarking and not enough time actually making use of the knowledge

Exactly!

Just like if you are always writing in a journal like DaVinci, Curie, Darwin, or Edison, you're spending too much time reliving the past instead of inventing the future.

[DaSHacka]

> Just my two cents: If you're saving enough documents to where you need something like this, you're spending too much time bookmarking and not enough time actually making use of the knowledge contained in there.

I completely disagree, I keep running into the opposite problem: Having to retread ground on old projects because I didn't document what I did and forgot over time.

I even notice other people have this issue. I recently took over a project from a friend, but because he didn't document anything, I'm essentially starting from scratch.

I have never once regretted writing something down, but I constantly regret not writing something down.

[raphaelty]

Author here, I like the idea to have a public and personal search-engine. I'd love to deep dive in some people bookmarks such as expert in NLP field in order to get clue / a point of view on problem I want to solve but those informations are not available most of the time

[medstrom]

You might get lucky and find a NLP expert's bookmarks on https://pinboard.in.

[junto]

Not sure if it’s just on mobile but the demo completely destroys the back button.

[nkko]

Kudos to the developer for sharing this impressive personal knowledge base project! I love seeing the passion and technical creativity of this community. Experimenting with tools for surfacing serendipitous insights and connecting ideas is what moves us forward. Keep up the great work - I look forward to seeing how you evolve and refine this system further!

[big_Brain69]

Loved it. Great job. Looking forward to new updates.

[robroyce]

This looks similar https://github.com/KnowledgeCanvas/knowledge

[raphaelty]

Thank you for this ! Knowledge is primarly inspired by http://www.semanlink.net/sl/home

[personjerry]

How do you make it useful though?

[raphaelty]

It upload content some of my friends like (github stars) and they have very good taste, so when I'm looking for a document / information on a new topic in machine learning or databases I like to give it a chance

[JellyBeanThief]

Ridiculous how easy Asturiano makes it to say "3d? Ah go on then, why not."

[raphaelty]

Amazed by 3d-force-graph js library

[cttet]

Looks great! I wonder is it API based or utilising a local LLM?

[raphaelty]

The ask button is provided by chatgpt api here

[danavar]

Very cool!