learning tower of babel

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Learning tower of babel

Manage 3 main types of information:

computers
middle east
arabic

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

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

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
- https://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

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

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