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Tag: ideas

Quickly capturing the essence of a new idea

May 29, 2021

in Productivity, Video, Writing

academia, capturing information, ideas, information, note-taking, structure

Sometimes I come across a novel idea or new concept that I’m unfamiliar with, and recognise that it’s something I should spend some time getting to grips with. But even though I’m interested in the idea and know that it’s important, I’m busy with something else and either don’t have the time or the bandwidth…
The semantic desktop and research papers

Nov 28, 2008

in Research, Scholarship, Technology

author, default search application, desktop search, documents, file using author, files, filesystem, ideas, kde, linux, metadata, Microsoft Windows, MP3, nepomuk, Ontology, operating system, Personalized, qt4, research, semantic desktop, tags, temporary solution, themes, thesis, usable solution

I’ve been following the idea of a semantic desktop for a few years now, waiting for someone to implement a framework that enables a user to actually do something that’s useful. I think that time has come. It seems as if KDE has managed to integrate the Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified…