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Marcus Vorwaller
Personal blog · marcusvorwaller.com/blogproductivityculture
Marcus Vorwaller's personal blog at marcusvorwaller.com covers productivity and culture. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a 2015 post on personal knowledge bases, covering why existing tools fall short and which features matter. One commenter says it has good insight into those gaps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15
What Hacker News says?
http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/erlang-20090311-125410.jpg 18 of 25 Erlang articles on the front page. :)
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on “The Innards of Erlang ”Submitted The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases as a story · 115 points
HN discussionAppropriately, this page has a Flash ad that times out and causes the page to become unresponsive on my Mac. http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/flash_fail-20100430-125225.j...
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on “Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash”Submitted Getting Things Done, One Thing at a Time (2005) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck out PersonalBrain [1] for a great way to keep all your notes organized and connected. It's like a mindmap, but every node can become a root node. As an example, if you're reading a dystopian novel you could create a node for "Dystopias" under æTypes of Literature" that has "Brave New World" and "1984: as sub-nodes with notes for each book in their node. Those could link to nodes for the authors with maybe writ…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2007/09/04/personal-brain-4-review/
on “Notetaking as a way to stay smart”Submitted The Tough Problem for the Glass Photo Sharing App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPretty cool. I think I semi-broke it (or at least found a bug): http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/Mozilla_Firefox-20090503-095...
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on “Logicly: a logic gate simulator”Submitted The Slow Death of Digital Books as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPerfect...ly average: http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/The_eyeballing_game-20081016...
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on “The eyeballing game”Looks great, but the default install didn't work on my blog for some reason. I'll have to look into exactly why. I'm on WP 3.1 with a WooThemes theme. ( http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog ) In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.
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on “Onswipe Partners With Automattic To Power iPad Traffic ”This is a different method, but for the last few years I've been using Personal Brain ( http://thebrain.com ) for note taking on pretty much everything I read. There's a free version available that is unrestricted enough for most uses. Think of it as a mind map where every node has the potential to be the central node and where connections can be made from any node to any other. Mine, for example, has several thousa…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2008/07/18/personalbrain-vs-mindmapping/
on “How to keep track of what you've learnt”If you're a jealous Rails dev there's a similar plugin that provides most of the same functionality: http://github.com/drnic/rails-footnotes/tree/master Here's an awesome, low-contrast-so-it's-easy-on-the-eyes screenshot: http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/footnotes-20080920-221131.jp...
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on “Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar”I absolutely would but I haven't seen one good enough that is easy to use and lets me own my data. So it's just markdown files for now. Marcus Vorwaller has some good insight into why things are currently lacking and what features are important in personal knowledgebases: http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/2015/12/14/personal-knowledg...
Comment linking /blog/2015/12/14/personal-knowledgebases/
on “Ask HN: Would you use an app to keep track of all your relationships?”
