[HN Gopher] Show HN: Open-Source Memex - Alternative Approach to... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Open-Source Memex - Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian Author : steve1820 Score : 14 points Date : 2020-09-23 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.steveliu.co) (TXT) w3m dump (www.steveliu.co) | steve1820 wrote: | This blog is a summary of a fun 1 month adventure I had with | Knowledge Management Systems and building a POC that I thought | had potential. It was inspired by so many of the products I see | on Hacker News. | | I've open sourced all the code + written down some notes on my | insights/ architecture. Just a warning, the code leaves much to | be desired as this was a mini project over 2-3 weekends. | | At the moment, I have 3 key layers of the application. | | The first is Chrome Extension which allows data collection. It | tracks all sorts of data such as attention, time on page, scroll/ | click and hover behaviour. It then sends this data to the | Electron app. | | The Electron app receives this data through an API and saves it | down locally using PouchDB (data structure is compatible with | Apache CouchBD and thus allows easy cloud storage). | | Within the Electron app, I use an Express/ NodeJS web server to | expose endpoints for functionality with the front end/ receiving | data from Chrome Extension. | | For the front end I use ReactJS. | | If you're interested, please read the full article! There are | lots of videos of the application in action. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-23 23:01 UTC)