spellbook VS hode

The article fails to mention existence of graph databases, or graph theory, except for tuple spaces which leads to that direction.

With graph databases you can easily and efficiently model any kind of network, including ones that are hierarchical or almost hierarchical by allowing a node to refer to multiple parent nodes instead of one.

My original idea with my bookmark extension Spellbook was this latter kind of graph, and I implemented a prototype called Grimoire using Ruby on Rails and Neo4j graph database, that worked very well.

The Spellbook currently only allows adding new bookmarks into the hierarchical structure imposed by browser APIs, but features an easy to use search feature to find the right category. Spellbook is available for Chrome and Firefox, but the Firefox version seems broken again by their API changes: https://github.com/peterhil/spellbook

I first heard of hypergraphs in the context of knowledge management using hode:

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode

I haven't looked more into them, but thought others might find hode interesting.

It's an interesting idea. Maybe I should try. I suspect, though, that I want control over every node, no matter how general. The thing about my notes is they contain only information I think I might need. I have, for instance, an "emotions" node. I'm sure the Wikidata node for emotions is interesting, but I want my own node too.

I tried to square this circle once by writing Hode[1], which permits encoding certain data as relevant to me, and then filter my view accordingly when I wanted. But the encoding process (i.e. the user experience when adding data to one's knowledge base) was so hard that I gave up.

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode

I wrote a language that's very close to natural language for writing to and querying a RSLT, a kind of higher order graph.

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode/blob/master/doc...

I know there are people with money who want to save the world. I think a higher-order knowledge base like Hode[1] could be useful in search, in AI, and in social networking. But I have no idea how to monetize it. It's more of a science project than a business. Am I out of luck until I do have such idea?

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode