This was roughly what I wanted as well. I had a Onyx Boox e ink tablet. I was adding sites to lurnby and then reading them on the Boox to use the Lurnby features. But the Boox was just too slow and unresponsive for this type of thing, I was really unsatisfied at some point.
Consider me surprised! I find mine (Nova 2) very fast. The e-ink page turns are kind of uncomfortably fast, even (recently realized I prefer my old Kindle's slower blending). Admittedly the UI can be a little quirky sometimes, which I suppose is what bothers you.
> How do you get the highlights back currently?
I use Syncthing for two-way sync, so that's how the highlights land back on my computer. Buuuuut ... I don't do anything with them. I recently discovered that the KOReader highlight data format isn't that great anyway, so I still wonder if there's some kind of standard format for processing them further.
Yeah, I think it's just about starting the thing up. It takes like 30 seconds to wake up and become responsive, and then indeed the UI was a bit unintuitive sometimes, so overall it leaves a lot to be desired. I think it's decent as a digital paper, and was decent to read in through the native pdf viewer and stuff, but using the android functions just weren't great.
Re the highlights
How would you want to process them? Are you turning them into flashcards or just adding to a doc somewhere?
Not the person you were replying to, but I've been after something like this for quite awhile too.
I use Logseq as my external brain for everything else, but am having a lot of trouble finding a good way to get my highlights and annotations from epubs into it. It has a great cloze feature with flashcards for reviewing things. It can also do highlights and notes from PDFs natively, which is awesome, but I'm a voracious epub reader on my Onyx Boox Poke 2 Color.
KOReader works great on it, but I really need something that would export my notes in md. I don't need it to do so on a daily basis. It'd be fine for it to be at the end of reading the book. But if it COULD export the notes on a daily basis with a block reference to the book title, that'd be even better.
Hey, Logseq looks really cool. I really love that there are so many options nowadays for knowledge management.
It's interesting to hear from more people that their onyx device works great, I've really struggled with making mine a part of my workflow. Also, I had no idea they now had color options. That's kinda cool!
Re the export to MD. I don't see that as a problem, the question really is about file formatting.
1. Do you have an example md file that's formatted in a way that would work for importing to logseq?
2. Export on a daily basis - would this go via api to somewhere? Or manually send you a download file on a daily basis? What's the idea here?
Yeah, I feel this pain. I don't have any really great ideas on this front. I've started to have different review sessions using the filter function in Lurnby, but it doesn't really solve the fact that the amount to review just continues to grow.
On that end, having been using this tool and process for about a year now, I've come to the feeling that I shouldn't worry about that and just think of it as a part of my daily process.
Rather than being goal oriented about remembering something, I've just started to trust that the information is in the system and the system works. Things naturally and serendipitously appear in my review feed and my memory and retention of them improve, but in a less planned way than it might be with a more focused process.
Huh, you are correct. I guess a better way to put this is "the original Readability I encountered was in Python"! The first version I saw was in Aaron Swartz's 2012 read2text tool, but a check of the URL I found that through says, yup, it's a Python port of Arc90's original code, which was a browser extension.
Thanks for the kind words. I would need to look over their tool in detail (it looks great btw) to really think through the details of how an integration might work.
One of the things I want to add to the application soon is some sort of "Post" function. Wherein you write something that synthesizes data from multiple sources and you can add in your highlights as quotes.
So really just a dedicated writing feature. This is another thing that's proven to increase comprehension and retention, synthesizing some learning into a blogpost or something like that.
So with integrations, that's the kind of thing that is perfect for integration. Because although I want to add it myself, there's no way that I would make something as dedicated and enjoyable as a tool that's only concentrating on the writing and notetaking experience.
As is allowing people to read elsewhere and import their highlights.
As is allowing people to review in some other place.
So I guess my perspective is that I want to offer a total experience, that's completely non binding and allows you to get the data out at any point to move it to your app of choice.
sorry, I rambled. Not sure that made a whole lot of sense :D
Learnawesome is very nice. Curating learning paths is a real pain these days. It's amazing that there's so much information available, but it's now almost impossible to make decisions. So I think there's a lot of important work to be done there to make it easier for people to reskill and keep learning.
Do you mean that they aren't available as offline or vs code plugins? I personally use Bear locally. I find it's minimalism refreshing.
Woah. Very cool. You seem to make it really easy for people to get started and tick a lot of the boxes around privacy.
Today's been a bit of a nervous day for me actually haha, I didn't really expect this attention. Open sourcing just felt like the right thing to do for this app and because I just don't have all the skills :D
The spaced repetition at the moment is for the highlights. All highlights get marked at an initial level 0 and then move up or down depending on you reviewing them.
Eventually gets to the point where a highlight is shown to you yearly.
In the future I was thinking of doing some spacing around finished books or articles. Things like - you finished reading X 10 days ago, what do you remember?
But don't think I've thought through the details around that enough.
I remember looking at that. They are indeed really cool. What do you mean with notes and highlights you should revise? What kind of revisions are you doing?
