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If anybody is curious, CTO of amie here, we run on elm and a mix of Haskell and go, our db of choice is of course postgres !

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Could you give more info on how this is better (or when this is better) than an ordinary notebook like evernote. I read through the homepage and found this:

> which lets you directly model your workflow and document your reasoning without the mental overhead of a folder structure.

but honestly i still don't understand what the main value prop is.

thanks.

Of course, thank you for asking. An ordinary notebook only lets you order notes linearly. As soon as you try out different paths and switch back and forth between them, for example, different models, you can lose the overview. With the graph, for any result, you can always go back an understand exactly where it came from. We make this extra easy by letting you plot the notes according to the parameters they are tagged with. You can try it in the live demo by clicking on the graph button on the top left and select "model_name" and "mae" to compare how the models performed. Besides this (compared to Evernote or a paper notebook), we also have a python client that lets you integrate documentation directly into taking data from equipment or data science.

Is this intended to be a notebook in the jupyter sense or in the evernote sense? Initially I thought the former (and so pretty much discounted the possibility of using it as a personal knowledge base) but your response made me wonder if I'm missing something

I've tried pretty much everything on the planet looking for a good knowledge base/personal wiki that is graph based. My current tool of choice is a humble little app called Scapple, but it's far from satisfactory.

Both and neither ? :P

We think knowledge is much complex than a simple linear note taking process (Evernote), but also needs (at times) simpler tool than a full fledged computing platform (Jupyter).

With amie one can enrich ones notes with whatever metadata one wants to track, we call them key value pairs, branch off whenever one is exploring parallel ideas and connect every piece of ones knowledge via references.

One can do it all via a Gui, just like in Evernote, but also via our python client giving the user full flexibility.

While we have a lot of visual features coming to make the note taking part neater, we won't support a fully featured markdown-like input for text entry in the near future tho.

Let us know if you can use it to build your personal knowledge base, we think you're going to love amie!

Have you considered adding version control to this?

Yes indeed! Already now, under the hood, everything is version controlled :D We plan to expose a much more fine grained access to version control with a focus on the Jupiter notebook. We also have in the pipeline a neat (we think) visual way to see the diffs in the knowledge one builds using our graph.

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