The vast majority of 'external brain' systems seem to based on hyperlinked text. This seems to be true for exocortex, memex or zettelcasten inspired designs.
This is great for reading, but you can't do DB queries to answer questions. What would a 'semantic web' design look like?
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I see people advocating for writing a FAQ, but I really struggle to write one from scratch.
The best FAQs are written as a response to, well, frequent questions.
How do you populate the initial FAQ?
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Claude asked me a question today: was I looking for an Emacs plugin (because I was talking about elisp) or a Rust program (because I have configured Rust preferences)?
I'm really impressed, it's rare to see LLMs ask follow-up questions.
(I wanted Emacs in this case.)
I'm amused (and kinda surprised) to learn that shells have their own equivalent of blink tags, a blink escape code! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17439482/how-to-make-a-text-blink-in-shell-script
Seems equally annoying, I can't see a good use for it.
