readmelater VS zotero

Just curious what random, interesting project ideas that HN folks got that they'd like to give away so that people with time can pick up and maybe make it reality.

I for one have a bunch of ideas that I'll probably would never find time to work on:

1. An open-source Notion alternative that works on top of sqlite files (inside browsers). Basically offline first Notion experience.

1. An open-source richtext layout engine to create google docs like powerful editors.

2. A webassembly powered extension framework to extend business softwares.

3. A bookmarking system that buffers my reading list and drives me to complete my research on a topic - It materialized to a level but I couldn't make it a full fledged product out of it yet - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater

4. Port prosemirror's technology to a multi-platform stack like Kotlin - so that someday we'll have a cross platform richtext editor component that products can use for both mobile apps and web.

These are just some of my random ideas. I'm curious what others got in their bucket!

I wrote a browser extension that will send weekly digest of bookmarked links to complete your reading list. It's open sourced at https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater

I used to have a hosted version running at https://closetab.email but couldn't keep it running. Will look into hosting it again :)

Checkout this project - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater

I used to have a hosted version at https://closetab.email - I'll have to re-host the app again. But it should solve the "bookmarks going into abyss" problem

You are right. But part of the reason why we don't go back to them is because our tools are not intelligent enough to know that we bookmark something because we want to get back to it later. It's not our job to remember to go back later. The system should compliment our tendency to forget. Sadly, I didn't find a single bookmarking system that reminded me of links I wanted to read later.

I wrote this as a manifesto - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater and later went on to build a version of that vision not because I wanted to beat that idea to death, but I just couldn't find a single bookmarking service that did what I expected it to do.

Maybe try Zotero[1]. There are many addons which can do what you need.

[1]https://www.zotero.org/

And next time, you use a real literature management program like zotero (some university libraries offer classes, there is a r/zotero, etc) or jabref to create a proper bibtex file with the references. It is not that difficult, and keeps you sane (esp. if a paper has to be formatted for a different publisher). See e.g. learnlatex.

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Zotero is your answer, it even auto generates your citations.

https://www.zotero.org/

Apparently there are plugins for Logseq and Obsidian as well.

Zotero - Price: Free Free and open-source reference manager that helps you collect, organize, and cite your research sources.

I use the free and open source Zotero which I think you'd find very calibre-like and manage notes and concept linking with org-roam in emacs.

If you can't hold the urge to know, you can check on the Zotero web library if all of your things are still there

Resources: ZOTERO. Zotero is a free (you can pay to get more storage), open-source citation manager with optional browser plugins. IT WILL FORMAT CITATIONS FOR YOU. (sometimes you have to edit them, but most of the time it can pull metadata and format things correctly on its own). You can sort your references into folders or with tags, read and annotate PDF copies on your computer or in a mobile app, and make notes - which I used to keep track of specific quotations I wanted to use.

You can also use online resources like The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, that I think is mostly free or the Handbook of Archaeological Sciences which I think is also mostly free. If you can't get a hold of those things you can also email the authors/editors and they might send you a free copy or look them up on Academia.edu and see if they have a free version. Also, if you don't already, use Google Scholar, it's the best resource for finding free articles and topics to read. It's also never too early to start using something like Zotaro, Mendeley, or Endnote to keep track of your readings and help you with citations/references in papers. You can literally download the citation, import it into one of those systems and it automatically formats your referencing.