I see what this app is about but at the same time it enforces information overload which is an instant turn off for me. What'll happen if I were to use it: I'll pile up more and more stuff I'm interested into, I'll receive news about all things I've subscribed to and eventually I'll get annoyed from the "spam". Then I'll unsubscribe realizing that information overload can't be handled with apps, I have to solve that problem in my head. In the mean time Obsidian does the job for me if I'm really really interested in something - I write it down and it's still not 100% that I'll come back to it later. That's a no go for me with all the apps that are used to create a "personal encyclopedia". Engineering wise I can't say anything but good about the app. Keep it up someone might see things in a completly different way that me, there still might be a big market for this.
The idea is you collect stuff that you can kinda forget about over time. When you add something new that is related to content you have already added, a link is automatically created which resurfaces the content from the past helping you draw connections that you may have not seen yourself.
I’ve wanted to home-roll something like this as a project. I don’t have interest to adopt a third party platform because,
- Been burned before putting my collected notes into op-software only to find it doesn’t think how I work
- I prefer text files and directories for long term storage. (JSON Data Export _coming soon_? Hard pass)
- I don’t have problem with paying for software that I like to use. But I don’t like software subscriptions that lock up my info or have arbitrary limits. I’d rather have full data access with less functionality, and pay intermittently for better functionality.
- don’t want my data stored off site. Period.
There is interest in this topic. If this is your thing, I say keep at it.
I used to save everything I thought was important to my del.icio.us account back in the day. How many times did I go back to look something up? Not a single time.
