Alessandro Farace
alessandrofv.bsky.social
Alessandro Farace
@alessandrofv.bsky.social
🌸 knowledge without memory is like money without a bank
🏗️ building https://janus.cards so you never forget what you learn and read
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I had an embarrassingly small vocabulary size...

🎯 So last year, I decided to create flashcards in @obsidian to learn new words. My workflow creates flashcards from books at 10 seconds per word.

⚡️ Zero manual dictionary searches. 🚫 Zero copy-pasting.

Here's my #Obsidian workflow 🧵(/7)
A meditation on doing something few have done before.
December 22, 2024 at 4:49 PM
📚 Read "The Oppenheimer Case" from 1965. The political drama behind Oppenheimer's security trial is far more complex than just Cold War paranoia. Here's what sparked his downfall 🧵 #Oppenheimer
December 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM
🧑‍🎓 Wanted to find the cleanest way to expose singletons in my Electron main process to the render process. Here's what I learned about using `contextBridge` for secure communication 🧵 #LearnInPublic
December 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I am working on an exciting new AI Flashcard app, and here are the 3️⃣ core problems with current solutions and workflows 🧵
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Low churn and organic growth. This is why I love obsidian
According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Obsidian is increasing in popularity and compels strong user loyalty.

However, this is a survey for developers & IT people who love to hack editors. #Obsidian #TfT #PKM

📊 survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technol...
December 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM
✨ Added Gemini support for the #Obsidian Arcana plugin (v1.6.17)! 🔮

You can now interact with your notes using OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models! 🚀

https://buff.ly/3Zk95qX
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM
I had an embarrassingly small vocabulary size...

🎯 So last year, I decided to create flashcards in @obsidian to learn new words. My workflow creates flashcards from books at 10 seconds per word.

⚡️ Zero manual dictionary searches. 🚫 Zero copy-pasting.

Here's my #Obsidian workflow 🧵(/7)
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Text generation is not AI's killer use case for Obsidian (or other PKM)

Its retrieval + transformation.

The value is already in the notes, we just need better ways of extracting and using it.
December 2, 2024 at 8:00 AM
⏪ What I made last year:

Arcana: An AI Powered Obsidian Plugin. Each of the tools is named after a famous historical figure:
- Socrates for Conversation
- Christie for Text Generation
- Darwin for Auto Tagging
- Feynmann for Flashcards
And more!
Check it out at github.com/A-F-V/obsidi...
GitHub - A-F-V/obsidian-arcana: Supercharge your Obsidian note-taking through AI-powered insights and suggestions
Supercharge your Obsidian note-taking through AI-powered insights and suggestions - A-F-V/obsidian-arcana
github.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:25 PM
The File over App philosophy advocates for your data to be local and to be easily readable.

Their opposites correspond to two flawed forms of digital ownership: temporary and partial.

I explore more in my short essay:
thoughts.alessandrofv.com/p/3-file-ove...
November 30, 2024 at 11:30 PM