On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:55:40PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
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> > the memorable ones, long after the participants had passed. This is from
> > the Davangere region of Karnataka.
>
> This is interesting. it reminds me of Flynn Collective from Charles
> Stross' "Accellerando".
I meant,
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:56:14AM +0530, Alok Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:52 PM Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
> > BTW, is there (or was there) a similar concept in other
> > cultures/civilisations?
>
>
> Sort of tangential but there is an oral tradition called ಹೆಳುವವರು
> (heLuvavaru) who
> SKN: Over the years I have been getting increasingly frustrated at not
> being efficient in deriving meaningful value from what I have read and
> curated via notes and highlights from these readings. I wanted to get
> better at retaining what I read
>
JJM: I'm on your same boat, but I have
I have found the oldest tech solution to this problem: the humble pen, the
physical book, and lots of shelf space.
1. Pen: I mark down my books and write an index of marked pages at the end
of the book for easy reference.
2. Books: I prefer buying books to the Kindle (having tried e-books for
Ashwin Nanjappa wrote:
The problem is PDF files directory --
which I am syncing using Dropbox, not ideal but I don't see a better
solution.
If the concern is around using a SaaS service like Dropbox, then
NextCloud[0] with S3-Compatible Storage as the backend[1] is a great
self-hosted files
You are right that PDF helps me to use a single format/tool for both books
and academic articles/theses/etc. For academic papers, I highlight/annotate
in the PDF. We did not get into other forms of "notes" that are useful to
me: programming/technical notes, those are captured in my blog.
So, my
