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I'd love some more info as well!

This is great. I have 100+ ebooks/pdfs of programming and textbooks of which I've been extracting the index pages of. My intention was to always make some sort of search index out of them. I will definitely be trialing this (initial few searches seem promising!)

Sorry, I'll refrain from humor from now on?

It is there. At the end of the line.

Wow, so much salt. It was a joke.

I wonder if they asked him algorithm problems in his interview /s

This is cool though. I'll be curious to see what he works on.

I'm aware, thanks

GPU: don't need it except to drive 1 or 2 external monitors if I'm at my desk (thus small screen not an issue either) CPU: 8 cores is fine for me RAM: mainly for a local dev environment running in Docker

For reference I currently have a 2019 16" MBP, with 64GB of RAM and an 8 core i9. Right now I'm using ~45GB of it, usually its up around 50 or 55. The CPU is at ~10%. While I'm developing locally, the workloads are highly bursty but sometimes they will chew up almost all of the CPU for about 10 minutes.

I used to have a 2016 15" MBP with 16GB (4 core i7) and while I could still run everything, the RAM was always pegged. Before that I had a 2016 13" MBP with 16GB (2 core i7) (I actually swapped with a coworker because I thought his 15" had 32GB). With both of these the RAM was by far the limiting factor, and while the increased CPU cores have been nice, most of the time I haven't noticed. The RAM increase on the other hand is always noticeable. Thus, 16GB is a nonstarter for me.

Edit: To add, I prefer the 13" form factor when I'm not at my desk.

Haskell? I feel like I haven't seen it much. Interestingly though I just started to learn it, so I would like to see it more.

November 17, to be exact exact.

This. I just want 32GB and a 13" screen!

Yeah, exactly what I'm moving towards. I've also started using the mdnotes plugin [0] to extract the annotations to markdown if I desire.

[0] - https://github.com/argenos/zotero-mdnotes

Completely agree on both points. Another thing for me is just grabbing a paper and a pen and knowing that's all I can do for the next X minutes. No digital distractions possible.

A mix of things that are constantly changing. I like Polar for reading, storing, and annotating them - but I'm considering moving away from it. I also use Zotero for storing meta data about the papers because it has a really great automatic meta data retrieval [0]. It's also good for searching, sorting and what not based on this info.

My current thoughts are to move more to Zotero because it also has some annotation functionality, but primarily use it as an extraction point to then store these annotations/notes in plain text or markdown. Which then I'll manage with git or something.

I've personally realized it's more important to me to have my notes about the papers easily accessible (hence plain text in git) than to have PDF annotations stored in an app alongside the PDF. I've also realized this has been a little bit of a shift in how I read, making me more focused on extracting information. Not sure how I feel about this yet.

[0] - https://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata

3rd sentence: "Multiple cities have decriminalized the substance, but Oregon will become the first to permit supervised use statewide ..."

4th sentence: "... will allow regulated use of psychedelic mushrooms in a therapeutic setting."

5th sentence: "It creates a two-year period during which regulatory details will be worked out, including what qualifications are required of therapists overseeing its use."

Read the article next time. This has the potential to benefit numerous people with different types of psychological conditions. It is definitely not nonsense.

> I like to print out the paper and highlight the most relevant information, so on a quick rescan I can be reminded of the major points.

I used to do this but I've tried to move to exclusively digital. I always, after some period of time, end up throwing out the papers I've printed. Plus digital allows for easier access across devices, quick searches, etc. Still though, I enjoy reading printed papers more.

Curious if anyone else has a similar experience with print vs digital.

Much thanks

Very interesting. So would you potentially see Polar as being able to create bibliographies from the metadata? Or just storing it?

Agreed. I've personally never used Roam, as I definitely need my files to be in some form of plain text.

Obsidian is cool in my eyes because I can start it up and click around if I want (more of review tool and looking at a cool graph), but in general I just create/edit my files in Vim. That's why I'm unsure about the opinionated hierarchy deal of Dendron. It just seems like another layer to deal with - although not much of a stretch to see a value add with it. Right now, I don't have enough files to be overwhelmed with my ad-hoc structure to spend the time trying it.

Great work!

Can you expand on the Zotero integration? I like Polar for reading/annotating more than Zotero, but the metadata import and bibliography functionality of Zotero is extremely useful to me. Combining these in some way would be pretty amazing!

I was curious what was different about this than Roam/Obsidian/ect. and checked the FAQ:

> Dendron is a highly opinionated note taking tool that focuses on hierarchal note taking. It provides the freedom of Roam’s every note exists everywhere philosophy while layering on top flexible hierarchies to keep track of it all. [0]

Not sure how I feel about that approach. However, it does look pretty polished and I'll likely check it out at some point.

[0] - https://www.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e8...

A shelligod, for sure

This looks super cool and polished.

That it's a 11401 line shell script is blowing my mind.

The simple fact that this has an aluminum body will make me upgrade to it eventually.

I'm super tired of glass backed phones because I have broken every single one I've ever owned.

Super side note - I'm rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2nd one in series) for fun right now, and this guys sounds exactly like Gilderoy Lockhart.

Whitepaper link: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/privacy_secu...

I thought you'd stop by this thread! Thanks for all your work, it's very helpful and much appreciated.

Why not just "man grep | grep -- --fixed-strings" real quick?

Hmm, I'll have to check it out.

I think it works great. Using the 64 bit 20.04 and now 20.04.1, I've had no problems with my 4 4Gb Pi4s (so many 4s!). You should be able to set up the wifi using netplan, although I do only run mine wired so haven't tried it.

Jeff Geerling has some great and very detailed write ups on this.

To quote directly from his post: "The results really speak for themselves. For sequential operations, using a USB SSD is 3-4x faster than using a microSD card."[0]

[0] - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/im-booting-my-raspber... [1] - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/fastest-usb-storage-o...