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Work notes

Here we do the actual work.

Renat

Brainstorm/Braindump

• The final task is to have an article offering an opinionated list of building blocks implementing CODE methodology.
• I want to concentrate on
  • Search
  • Highlighting
  • Summarization
• We may want to make a set of videos/gifs demonstrating workflow with our instrument.
• Don’t hesitate to use brute force

Useful links

A list of useful packages for implementing CODE with Emacs.

• GitHub - logseq/logseq: A privacy-first, open-source(frontend now, backend later) platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Desktop app download link: https://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases, roadmap: https://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap
• EmacsWiki: Highlight Library Highlight the text.
• Emacs Enriched Text mode Persistently store highlights and Emacs markup in text files.
• Pandoc - About pandoc Transform various documents to org-mode format.
• A miro board of basb course Board
• Org pandoc import https://github.com/tecosaur/org-pandoc-import

Keywords

• CODE
  • Divergence and convergence
• Search
  • Read http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
  • CODE methodology
  • Zettelkasten
• Highlight
  • A reader, that doesn’t allow you to read until you make notes.

Capture

Web-pages

• pandoc

Images

• test google cloud vision api
• rekognition api I ended up using rekognition API

  You need amazon account to use it.

  #!/bin/bash
  
  set -euo pipefail
  
  CREDENTIALS="$1"
  TARGET_BASENAME="$(basename "$2")"
  
  docker run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v /home/renat/.aws:/tmp/.aws -e HOME=/tmp -v "$(realpath "$2"):/mnt/$TARGET_BASENAME" -w /mnt --rm -i amazon/aws-cli --profile "$CREDENTIALS" rekognition detect-labels --image-bytes "fileb://$TARGET_BASENAME"
      

Use pandoc to convert documents to org-mode format

I don’t trust browser extenstions, so I capture web pages in a different way:

Whenever I find something worth reading, I open it with Firefoxes built-in page cleaner [fn:1] and just save the HTML page into my org archive[fn:2].

Then I use pandoc to convert the page I saved into org-mode format.

cd ~/Dropbox/org/html
pandoc -f html -t org <file name>.html -o <file name>.org

Then, if I don’t read the article immediately, I store a link with org-store-link and put it into appropriate resource, area or project file.

highlighting

To keep track of important stuff inside the file I highlight the text I selected with highlight.el.

Use different colors for different highlights. When I’m reading, I try to keep track of statements and questions I’m interested in. The code below defines appropriate faces.

(defface highlight-question
  '((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light))
     :background "darkseagreen2")
    (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark))
     :background "darkolivegreen")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background light))
     :background "darkseagreen2")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
     :background "darkolivegreen")
    (((class color) (min-colors 8))
     :background "green" :foreground "black")
    (t :inverse-video t))
  "Face for highlighting questions."
  :group 'basic-faces)

(defface highlight-statement
  '((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light))
     :background "#3c4c7a")
    (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark))
     :background "#3c4c7a")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background light))
     :background "#3c4c7a")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
     :background "#3c4c7a")
    (((class color) (min-colors 8))
     :background "blue" :foreground "black")
    (t :inverse-video t))
  "Face for highlighting statements."
  :group 'basic-faces)

(defface highlight-general
  '((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light))
     :background "#614b61")
    (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark))
     :background "#614b61")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background light))
     :background "#614b61")
    (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark))
     :background "#614b61")
    (((class color) (min-colors 8))
     :background "red" :foreground "black")
    (t :inverse-video t))
  "Face for highlighting."
  :group 'basic-faces)

Helper functions and their keybindings so we can mark text quickly. I use ESC ESC h prefix. Feel free to use your own.

(defun hlt-question()
  (interactive)
  (hlt-highlight-region (region-beginning) (region-end) 'highlight-question))

(defun hlt-statement()
  (interactive)
  (hlt-highlight-region (region-beginning) (region-end) 'highlight-statement))


(global-set-key (kbd "ESC M-h q") #'hlt-question)
(global-set-key (kbd "ESC M-h s") #'hlt-statement)
(global-set-key (kbd "ESC M-h h") #'hlt-general)
(global-set-key (kbd "ESC M-h u") #'hlt-unhighlight-region)

Twelve favourite problems

Them aim here is to extract projects/areas/resources I spent the most time in.

Capture templates

Project

This template will create a project entry and will ask you to set a deadline.

(add-to-list
 'org-roam-capture-templates
 ("p" "Project" plain "%?"
  :if-new (file+head "roam/%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org" "#+title: ${title}\n#+roam_tags project\n\n* ${title}\n  :DEADLINE: %^{Project deadline}t\n\n")
  :unnarrowed t))

Capturing videos

Organize

Tagging your notes as PARA objects.

I have two approaches to manage projects, areas and resource tags: by roam tags and by roam links.

Tags

For every note you assign an appropriate tag with org-roam-tag-add.

Then you can see all of your projects for example just by searching by project tag.

On roam v2 it will look like.

Roam linkns

You create roam fiels named Project, Area, Resource and then put it into a roam entry as a link.

Then, you open the Areas note and in your org-roam buffer you will see:

Footnotes

[fn:1] Reader view

[fn:2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-save-web-page