It occurs to me that it might be useful to have an online library for LessWrong—a place to store books, articles, and other bits of information gathered from the internet, for reference and sharing.
It should be pretty easy to set that up using Evernote and an email account—Evernote allows files to be emailed to it, and will even sort those files into categories and apply tags to them if the subject line of the email is formatted correctly. The email account would act as a firewall—it would filter out spam, blacklist certain email addresses if necessary, and perhaps filter any email with an improperly formatted header to a separate file to be manually checked, and then forward everything else to Evernote, where it would be publicly accessible.
Downsides: It would need a moderator/librarian to fix any mistakes in tagging or categorizing, add new categories to the Evernote account, and update the email account’s blacklist. Free Evernote accounts have a monthly upload limit of 40MB, which may be too small, and they also only allow a few file types (plain text, image, audio, and pdf) to be uploaded; a premium account allows 500MB to be uploaded per month and will accept any file type, but costs $5/month or $45/year, which would have to be coordinated.
There may be better ways of doing this; I’m suggesting Evernote mostly because I’m familiar with it. I’m willing to set it up, if there’s sufficient interest, and possibly pay for the first year of premium Evernote, but I’m not willing to act as librarian.
It occurs to me that it might be useful to have an online library for LessWrong—a place to store books, articles, and other bits of information gathered from the internet, for reference and sharing.
It should be pretty easy to set that up using Evernote and an email account—Evernote allows files to be emailed to it, and will even sort those files into categories and apply tags to them if the subject line of the email is formatted correctly. The email account would act as a firewall—it would filter out spam, blacklist certain email addresses if necessary, and perhaps filter any email with an improperly formatted header to a separate file to be manually checked, and then forward everything else to Evernote, where it would be publicly accessible.
Downsides: It would need a moderator/librarian to fix any mistakes in tagging or categorizing, add new categories to the Evernote account, and update the email account’s blacklist. Free Evernote accounts have a monthly upload limit of 40MB, which may be too small, and they also only allow a few file types (plain text, image, audio, and pdf) to be uploaded; a premium account allows 500MB to be uploaded per month and will accept any file type, but costs $5/month or $45/year, which would have to be coordinated.
There may be better ways of doing this; I’m suggesting Evernote mostly because I’m familiar with it. I’m willing to set it up, if there’s sufficient interest, and possibly pay for the first year of premium Evernote, but I’m not willing to act as librarian.
Thoughts?