Love this take on “knowledge gardens”. I’ve spent way too much time trying to organize and re-organize notes. Embracing the mess with a capture and triage loop is so much more natural.
We forget that just 30 years ago the modern day equivalent of word processors edit features would make any typewriter or scratch pad jealous. Re-writing at breakneck speeds has saved countless trees and forests, as was the old environmental concerns with writing too much.
Want to edit a long form part of any paper written in 1985? Toss the paper in the wastebasket and start over. Most decent ideas can be fleshed out with enough editing and re-writing.
Paper had the advantage of being toss-able.. On a computer, what we write seems to be so unique and special... Books are common to have been written a couple times before they are in their 'final forms'.
Public internet knowledge before the social media moat was forums, wikis, various video sites, comment boards, Stackoverflow etc...
Embracing the mess of private knowledge in automotive repair space means recording any and all private repairs and posting them publicly whether someone gets value of it or not.
Embracing the mess of private knowledge in almost any other industry gives anyone the chance to see how messy most industries are with their knowledge moats.
Very interesting - the idea that with paper you accept that much of what you write is tossable and that for the select things you want to keep around, you're willing to re-transcribe. Your writing is understood to be a snapshot in time, not something that's supposed to stay up-to-date over time. There's something liberating about that.
This is a really creative approach to a problem that far too many people need to deal with. I think this project is going to end up helping a lot of people.
Thanks! I'm really hoping that it'll help a lot of people dealing with PTSD live a normal life. It sucks to get surprised and have something that's supposed to be entertainment ruin your day.
Really awesome application! I passed it along to a couple of my teacher/professor friends.
Hopefully this can replace a lot of those awful RF-based polling systems that come packaged a lot of college level textbooks. Physics II in college was really painful because of our 'clickers'.
CodeIgniter is still PHP4-friendly. It's not "hot" by any means. CakePHP is still actively developed, but it's pretty miserable. (It's slow, too - so much so that framework devs usually benchmark against it because it's so reliably slower-than-everyone-else.)
If you're going to use PHP, I can't really think of a good reason to use anything other than Symfony2.
I just built an app on both codeigniter and cake... and I prefer cake by far. Cake gets in your way a little bit, but it's good for me since I wouldn't describe myself as a "classically trained coder".
Whatever your take is on this situation I think most will agree the creation of knowledge is key for any society's advancement. It's critically important for the future of the US that we don't let the prevailing political winds interfere with the creativity that will keep us competitive. Burdening the pursuit of knowledge with politically driven oversight will create research as useful as most legislation. Politicians need to say out of academics. Most of them spent a majority of their lives avoiding them anyways, it shouldn't be to hard to keep avoiding them.
