[HN Gopher] Tools for Better Thinking
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Tools for Better Thinking
Author : mmoez
Score : 178 points
Date : 2020-05-28 17:15 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| arcticfox wrote:
| Ohh...I _love_ this. I have a handful of these internal tools
| that I picked up over these years, but I never knew where to find
| more (or really, consciously thought to look for more). Now I
| have a bit of a roadmap.
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| The ones I do have are so valuable that even if I get one more
| effective one off this list, it will be one of the best things I
| do this year.
| w4tson wrote:
| You might enjoy this then
|
| https://fs.blog/mental-models/
| vajrabum wrote:
| I always liked that stuff too. Here's a few more systems ones
| you might enjoy. https://www.systems-thinking.org/arch/arch.htm
| uk_king wrote:
| Looks fantastic! I like the Iceberg model.
| rememberlenny wrote:
| The tree-like mind maps from these are made in MindNode [1].
|
| [1]: https://mindnode.com/
| Jestar342 wrote:
| Oh wow. Mac/iOS only. When was this a thing?
| diggan wrote:
| Lovely idea and presentation! Will come very handy at times.
|
| Something I feel like is missing: Statecharts. Very powerful to
| be able to reason about state changes without having to deal with
| the explosion of states that state machines often ends up with.
| Sometimes also called hierarchical state machines.
| inetsee wrote:
| There is a book titled "Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-
| Thinking Techniques". The last edition was published in 2006, so
| it's fairly dated by now. I found it very interesting back then,
| but it wouldn't have much about more recent tools or ideas.
|
| There is a summary of the book here
| https://www.ethos3.com/books/thinkertoys-a-handbook-of-creat...
| ggregoire wrote:
| No direct relation but reminds me of
| https://datavizcatalogue.com/search.html (which is great btw!)
| drewcoo wrote:
| So an "iceberg model" is about trends and patterns over time?
| That's adding a dimension to the iceberg's ocean and I think the
| analogy breaks. Usually icebergs are to describe partial
| occlusion.
|
| Also alarming is that in the example for that model QA is
| something that happens post-release. If so, I expect quality to
| be a looming iceberg.
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within
| notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but most
| tools are too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things
| cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my
| knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents
| cmehdy wrote:
| Yesterday there was a Show HN about Obsidian[0] which you might
| be interested in.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| you need an account for it though, right? meaning they have
| access to your stuff. and because they use unique formatting
| such as `![[filename]]`, it may not be easily cross-
| compatible
| nighthawk454 wrote:
| I believe in yesterdays thread there was mention of the app
| storing all files locally in a portable Markdown format
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| Have you heard anything about Joplin? I believe it
| behaves similarly.
| Hates_ wrote:
| No account needed. It just works off local markdown files.
| Enginerrrd wrote:
| Depends what you mean by "heavy", and what platform you're
| looking for. Vimwiki maybe?
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| I can keep things on local storage and preferably in `.txt`
| or `.rtf`
| cryptonode wrote:
| Take a look at https://www.notion.so
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| notion is a proprietary format, unfortunately. I also want to
| keep things in local storage for security reasons
| jpitz wrote:
| TiddlyWiki https://tiddlywiki.com/
| codemac wrote:
| org-mode allows linking within notes.
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| still a bit too heavy for my purposes, but it looks like it
| may be the only option. I was trying not to resort to `.md`
| files, but that may be a more future-roof option to be
| honest.
| ImprobableTruth wrote:
| if you do decide to check out emacs, look at org-roam. My
| experience with it has been amazing so far.
| gexla wrote:
| Why not Roam?
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| Roam is closed-beta and a proprietary format.
| flarg wrote:
| zim desktop wiki
| marvinblum wrote:
| Hm that's hard to accomplish with simple text files. You can
| checkout Emvi [1]. That's not exactly what you're looking for
| but you can link everything using the @ key and export to HTML
| and markdown.
|
| [1] https://emvi.com/
| M5x7wI3CmbEem10 wrote:
| it's unfortunate that just being able to link documents is
| difficult within text files
| x32n23nr wrote:
| Side note: Also, nice minimal site. Refreshing to see well-
| designed, clean sites this days.
| raspyberr wrote:
| You should get into the habit of actually checking the network
| requests. The site looks minimal but it's 1.1MB w/o Google
| analytics. It's what Maciej
| Ceglowski(https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm)
| would call Chickenshit Minimalism.
| x32n23nr wrote:
| You're right - spoiled by the internet connection. I guess I
| was referring more to the UI.
| Enginerrrd wrote:
| I'm just happy that the homepage mostly zooms the way it
| should.
|
| Nothing in the modern web pisses me off more than a
| developer trying to decide how my zoom behavior should work
| for me. Zoom is a very basic concept, I want to make the
| whole page larger or smaller. For some reason people insist
| on messing with that to make some menu, banner, or image
| popup appear the way they think I (or they) want it to when
| I try and zoom in or out, rather than just let me zoom as I
| please.
|
| This site still manages to fuck it up when I click on one
| of the images though.
| putsjoe wrote:
| Thanks for the link, a great talk
| paulorlando wrote:
| Good list. You might also like this one focused on thinking about
| systems: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
| Rochus wrote:
| Outliners are definitely missing, such as
| https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/. You can structure
| your thoughts while you type, even while you're talking to other
| people. And you can make cross-references and make appear
| thoughts (or action items and such) in other places using
| translucent active links. Or copy/paste structured text from the
| web or aggregate links with notes, etc.
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