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Show HN: My take on creating personal knowledge platform (worldofthis.com)
59 points by ned1010 on July 7, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments



What is the purpose of this? Your comment is saying you want to learn and organize information. I'm actually really into this kind of thing, too. I've actually been trying recently to commit to an enormous undertaking I've been wanting to do for several decades of compiling a more or less topologically ordered sequence of all subjects I consider critical to understanding how and why modern science and technology works and how humans can know anything, at less detail than a set of textbooks or college degree, but more than Wikipedia, probably organized somehow on the web because it would just be too much content to put in a book or books.

I assumed you meant something like that, but then I go to your site to see what you've learned and what knowledge you've organized, and it appears to be a bunch of pop-up images of things that appear to be text headers, but they don't expand to contain any actual information. And there are links at the top to "pricing" and "demo." I just want to see what you've learned. I don't want to buy anything from you.


Zotero has a few plugins that turn your library into a website. There are also visualization tools.

Obsidian has similar plugins or functionality (ignore the native graph though).


(Sorry for cosmetic feedback but this was the first impression:) Floaty header almost entirely obscures nonfloaty header.

Second impression: What is this? Some kind of image gallery? The site doesn't explain itself very clearly.

Edit: Reading the other comments: screenshots of software that is not yet available?

Will this be released, or is implementation left as an exercise for the reader? ;)


If images are too big i wil make them smaller. No its a not a image gallery these images use to serve as showcases for the functionality that you can use. If you use the demo@user.com and logged in yiou can explore what content is alrady been created.

Thnaks for the feedback. Start making short videos show casing the dufferent functinalities and more explantion to alons side the images.

Yea definitily gave to be more clear. Sorry guys.

In a nutshell this is site where you have activities which are links to resources on the web but you map and organize based on your personal interests.

Anf the other major functionality are content snippets which you use to create content taken from the web and map it/post it based on your intrests.

AI is also avaialbel to enchance the content context.

There is more to this but wil have to definitly add more explantion and videos.

Check back in day. I deploy changes immedealty.


I start building this site because i wanted to organize information I needed and was personaly interested. My favorite activities on the web are learning and organizing so I am trying to combine both aspects. Tell what you think, tell me the good and the bad.


I get a 403 page.


Sorry. i will fixed it.


Is the "demouser@" account meant to be used to try out the system?

I could not actually login, because the password specified for this demo account was rejected by the password field's validation code as being insufficiently long :(

If you're interested in feedback, it would be nice to have something more than screenshots.


I will want feedback. I will make more clear. Thanks. Sorry for the problems.


You forgot the period .


will check and fix it. Sorry first time.


I've been wondering how to do the same, my guess is at the end of the day most people will end up using Windows Copilot or Siri whatever apple decides to call it.

It is going to be very difficult to compete with them.


Generally when I look for stuff of which I don't even remember all the details of what I read, I just vaguely have an abstract storyline, I describe it to an ChatGPT and it guesses it correctly most of the time. This is an ideal system we should aim for.


Don't quite understand what is shown here, but org-mode and git also make a nice and durable personal knowledge platform.


Soon will be clear. Sorry I am not very good at marketing. This is completly different. Check it later.


This is really neat, is the source up somewhere?


Sorry no. Its not a open source. This is a project that I am working and using at the same time.




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