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learning tower of babel [2a6413a1]

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1. Learning tower of babel

Manage 3 main types of information:

  • computers
  • middle east
  • arabic

1.1. Inputs

4 types of inputs:

  • Small form knowledge

    • Twitter, Instagram, news articles

  • Medium form knowledge

    • longer form articles, information, podcasts

  • Long form knowledge

    • Books, videos, etc

  • Lanugages

    • Rote memorization

1.2. References & Processing

  • Instapaper

    • Staging ground
    • On and off for a few years, only in the past year it's come back in full force

  • Pinboard

    • Long term archival
    • Using it for a while now

  • Readwise

    • Instapaper extractor + pinboard archiver
    • Also reads from kindle, but I could probably cut this one out

  • Zotero

    • Long term archival
    • Synced via my own web dav server

  • Anki

    • Languages
    • Anki pages from alex strick

1.3. Processing and learning

  • org-roam is where the thinking happens

    • org-journal for private daily notes

    • how to handle tags?

      • let them grow I guess
      • files, not tags
    • Taking Smart Notes
    • org-roam.readthedocs.io/en/master/tour/
    • Similar to roam research
    • org mode is the primary way I interact with text

    • graph in org-roam is suprisingly useful

      • maybe it will generate insight into the future

1.4. Displaying

  • hugo

    • ox-hugo
    • moderately annoying to shift over the first time when you already have org-roam setup
    • exports with custom book theme
    • Counting with range over all posts

2. Too complicated?

Almost certainly, there's a few points in here I could shave off, but computer people optimize well past the point of the discrete