I once thought what will be in my Median World, and one thing was central entering node of all best practices. Easy searchable node. Lots and lots of searches like “best tools” will lead to it, just in case if somebody somehow missed it, he could still find it just by inventing a Schelling point by his own mind.
And then an idea came to my mind: what if such a thing already exists in our world? I didn’t yet try to search. Well, now I tried. Maybe I tried wrong requests, maybe google doesn’t prioritize these requests, maybe there is no such thing yet. But I didn’t find it.
And of course as a member of LessWrong I’ve got an idea that LessWrong could be such a place for best practices.
I thought that maybe it isn’t because it’s too dangerous to create an overall list of powerful things which aren’t rationality enhancing ones. But probably it’s wrong, I certainly have seen a list of the best textbooks here. What I want to see is for example a list of the best computer instruments.
Because I searched for best note-taking apps and was for a long time recommended to use Google Keep (which I used), Microsoft OneNote, as best EverNote. I wasn’t recommended to use Notion, not saying about Obsidian.
And there is a question of “the best” being dependant of utility function. Even I would recommend Notion (not Obsidian) for collaboration. And Obsidian for extensions and ownership (or file-based as I prefer it to name, because it’s not question of property rights, it’s a question of having raw access to your notes, while Obsidian is just one of the browsers you can use).
What I certainly want to copy from textbook post is using anchors to avoid usage of different scales. Because after only note-taking via text-editor, I would recommend Google Keep, and after Google Keep I would recommend EverNote.
And now I tried much more, eg Joplin, RoamResearch and Foam (no, because I need to be able to normally take notes from phone too, that also a reason why I keep Markor and Zettel Notes on my phone, Obsidian sometimes needs loading which needs more than half a second), AnyType and bunch of other things (no, because not markdown file based), so I don’t want to go through recommendations of Google Keep. But I am not going to be sure I found the best thing, because I thought so when I found Notion, and I was wrong, and now I am remembering No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know.
It does exist, pretty much every app store has a rating indicator for how good/bad an app is (on computer or on mobile), its just… most people have pretty bad taste (though not horrible taste, you will see eg Anki ranked as #1 in education, which seems right).
It’s… Not at all what I am talking about. There is a big difference between five points overall scale with no reference points except being from (+)1 to (+)5 and −10 to +10 logarithmic scales each of user added tags with bayesian adjusting on previous ratings and clustering users by tastes. And it would be impossible to have good taste in apps if your only option is “vote pro” instead of default “doing nothing”. Actually… I keep in head here Thellims complaints about rating organization on Amazon, majoritarian voting on elections, EY post on psychophysics and, again, that post about textbook recommendations with mention what you also tried (iirc it’s not a thing in Google play, so I can’t filter note taking votes only by those who tried obsidian).
I once thought what will be in my Median World, and one thing was central entering node of all best practices. Easy searchable node. Lots and lots of searches like “best tools” will lead to it, just in case if somebody somehow missed it, he could still find it just by inventing a Schelling point by his own mind.
And then an idea came to my mind: what if such a thing already exists in our world? I didn’t yet try to search. Well, now I tried. Maybe I tried wrong requests, maybe google doesn’t prioritize these requests, maybe there is no such thing yet. But I didn’t find it.
And of course as a member of LessWrong I’ve got an idea that LessWrong could be such a place for best practices.
I thought that maybe it isn’t because it’s too dangerous to create an overall list of powerful things which aren’t rationality enhancing ones. But probably it’s wrong, I certainly have seen a list of the best textbooks here. What I want to see is for example a list of the best computer instruments.
Because I searched for best note-taking apps and was for a long time recommended to use Google Keep (which I used), Microsoft OneNote, as best EverNote. I wasn’t recommended to use Notion, not saying about Obsidian.
And there is a question of “the best” being dependant of utility function. Even I would recommend Notion (not Obsidian) for collaboration. And Obsidian for extensions and ownership (or file-based as I prefer it to name, because it’s not question of property rights, it’s a question of having raw access to your notes, while Obsidian is just one of the browsers you can use).
What I certainly want to copy from textbook post is using anchors to avoid usage of different scales. Because after only note-taking via text-editor, I would recommend Google Keep, and after Google Keep I would recommend EverNote.
And now I tried much more, eg Joplin, RoamResearch and Foam (no, because I need to be able to normally take notes from phone too, that also a reason why I keep Markor and Zettel Notes on my phone, Obsidian sometimes needs loading which needs more than half a second), AnyType and bunch of other things (no, because not markdown file based), so I don’t want to go through recommendations of Google Keep. But I am not going to be sure I found the best thing, because I thought so when I found Notion, and I was wrong, and now I am remembering No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know.
It does exist, pretty much every app store has a rating indicator for how good/bad an app is (on computer or on mobile), its just… most people have pretty bad taste (though not horrible taste, you will see eg Anki ranked as #1 in education, which seems right).
It’s… Not at all what I am talking about. There is a big difference between five points overall scale with no reference points except being from (+)1 to (+)5 and −10 to +10 logarithmic scales each of user added tags with bayesian adjusting on previous ratings and clustering users by tastes. And it would be impossible to have good taste in apps if your only option is “vote pro” instead of default “doing nothing”. Actually… I keep in head here Thellims complaints about rating organization on Amazon, majoritarian voting on elections, EY post on psychophysics and, again, that post about textbook recommendations with mention what you also tried (iirc it’s not a thing in Google play, so I can’t filter note taking votes only by those who tried obsidian).