2025-12-18

Memex working group
- two scribes to take notes
- People intros
  - Paul
    - uses Obsidian
      - https://paul.mememaps.net/
    - trying to do daily Lifelogging
    - trying to use AI to run his life
    - want to be able to use AI to do queries on everybody's memex
  - Alex
    - uses Obsidian
      - uses for project management
      - uses checklists a lot
  - Jordie
    - wants to make recommendation system from memei
  - Zoravur
    - has blog
    - Twitter is a knowledge tool
    - prefers plain-text with preferred format
    - previously used Notion
  - Sasha
    - Wants second brain
    - Uses to-do lists, Slack
  - Me
    - scom stuff
- As We May Think
  - origin of the term/idea "memex"
  - section 6 is most relevant
- Paul's schema
  - Git repo in Obsidian
  - Hierarchical directory structure
    - Acronyms
    - Backlog
      - Failed to-do lists
    - Logs
      - Things that were done
    - Behaviors
      - failed attempts to track things
    - Courses
      - notes for various courses
    - Concepts
      - Massive list of concepts added
        
        e.g. agency, account-based, academia, ActivityPub
    - People
    - Relationships
- Use cases for memex
  - Public blog
    - everybody here has one or wants to
  - Cooking ontology
  - Personal agent
  - Health data
  - Quantified self
  - Bookmarking
    - Paul currently uses Raindrop, will migrate to Readwise
  - Social media ingestion
    - e.g. scom streams
  - Photo management