Right now, Andy is perhaps the most sophisticated thinker in this space sharing his insights and prototypes (meta-knowledge work, backlinked evergreen notes, spaced repetition, new UX/UI for these systems, etc). Here's some additional pointers:
I think the space of graph/backlinked personal notes/knowledge systems is taking off [1], with many solutions free and open-source. (Of that list, many have spaced-repetition plug-ins not referenced there.) It will be interesting to how the field matures in a couple of years.
Thanks for the links! I wonder if Andy (or anyone else) has addressed the lack of images in these notes. Some ideas are expressed much better visually, but I have yet to figure out a frictionless way of integrating things drawn in a notebook or tablet into notes written mostly on a laptop.
If you check out the livestream on youtube, you'll see that he does the writing in Bear (Mac/iOS only app). Presumably there's some custom code to export everything and build the HTML with backlinks, but as mentioned in the link posted here, this code is not public anywhere.
He has shared part of his toolkit, namely the exporting and syncing of the Bear notes, and “link-janitor” for the backlinks [1]. Although I wouldn’t recommend it in general - it’s a brittle prototype. And right now there are better tools out there (linked above) many of which appeared in the last few months.
- Andy livestreamed a demo of him on a typical work session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGcs4tyey18
- this Patreon post explains in greater lenght his OS-level spaced repetition approach: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173
- Andy is working on a prototype of that system, called Orbit, which might be available soon: https://twitter.com/withorbit
- in regards to his specific writing/thinking system, here's a couple more clarifications: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4AX7pHAu5uUfmrq4K4zig9x8jmm... https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2...
- Obsidian has a plug-in which replicates the sliding panes of Andy's notes: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/andy-matuschak-mode-v2-7-updated...
I think the space of graph/backlinked personal notes/knowledge systems is taking off [1], with many solutions free and open-source. (Of that list, many have spaced-repetition plug-ins not referenced there.) It will be interesting to how the field matures in a couple of years.
[1] https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6...