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It doesn't matter how many were sold if they were all sold at a loss and they don't lead to increased revenue because people only use them as alarm clocks.
Have you ever actually used one? They're shit tech. A new gadget to market to American consumers who have no idea what to get their adult children for the holidays.
All the devices I know of in my immediate family are collecting dust. With the exception of my great aunt and uncle, who have one in the living room and constantly complain about it/at it.
I have a love hate relationship. Saves me time to turn off my space heater, or the living room TV when my kids are in trouble and keep turning on while grounded, or lights, etc, or google some mundane fact my wife and I are arguing about, sometimes getting a laugh when she TOTALLY gets the wrong thing in a funny way.
I curse her out more than anything but at this point she's almost a family member, I do wish they'd hurry up w/ a new generation using GPT3+dalle etc to create some much better ux.
I'd probably use a google home instead if I'd gotten that first, I'm not tied to the alexa brand, and hate Amazon as a whole as being a gluttonous monstrosity of industry, but I'm a big believer in global warming but still eat meat... Sometimes you just do what's convenient, I guess.
The Dot 4 speaker is a decent speaker. The voice recognition is also pretty impressive for a device that small. So, I disagree it's shit tech. But if it was my job to make money from it I would be sweating bullets.
I agree. I saw no data in these posts. Alternatives could be that they developed a deep learning algorithm to auto label intent and entity? Or possibly interest rate changes drove the stock down 50% and they need to get more free cash flow? Or they hit a glass ceiling in cpe?
I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed. It’s not social media that is entirely bad, rather it’s the notifications and infinite scrolling feed which cause cognitive overload. I changed my consumption habits and don’t open news apps mindlessly.
I’m not on most social media platforms as well. I subscribe to the print & digital New York Times. Reading the paper is old school, but I find it relaxing and I absorb a wider array of information vs what recommendation algos would feed me. I subscribe to ESPN/Cricinfo etc for specific sports that I follow.
> I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed.
Except everything is an emergency. Did you hear the latest X said about Y thing? Did you hear what is happening in X-istan? What about the climate?
I don't care about any of it. At the end of the day being more informed about the comings and goings of every atomized point of the world only causes me more existential stress. If I'm being honest I really only care about what happens in my locality, and by extension my state. If it's big enough, maybe I'll care what happens at the country level. But very, very few things rise to meet this and cause me to have a need to burden myself. What Trump, or Biden, or Zelensky, or whoever is in the media circuits today says has literally zero bearing on my life in my community. Sometimes it's best to turn off the brain melting box in the corner of the room.
National news and politics have very little to do with the community - communities simply don't operate at that scale. If anything, judging by my experience on Nextdoor, national issues always being in focus ruins local communities.
More like you should participate in community building. If you ain’t building your community, someone else will build it for you and come banging at your door.
Democracy doesn’t work in uninformed passive society.
Pen and paper is criminally overlooked when it comes to note taking. I personally use a little hard cover blank book, date the upper corner, and list what I work on as I move through the day.
The "friction" of having to write things down means that you only write down the things that matter vs having a perfect log of the day, which makes reviewing easier.
Finally, if theres any end of date notes or things to highlight for the next day just star or underline them.
No push notifications, no alerts, no pings, no monthly fee, secure, and helps to improve your spelling and penmanship.
How do you deal with stuff that should be on the list, when you are not at the desk? I was using a notebook too, but I got frustrated, because my notebook was not with me all the time. My phone is…
I’m generally having this as a work log which is always at my desk.
I understand the frustration of not having it 100% available, but I use it as a way to keep work/life balance. If I’m at my desk I’m working, elsewhere I’m not. If I have an idea on a walk and it’s not sharp enough to last until I get back then it’s probably not worth writing down anyways.
I really prefer the act of physically writing notes, but not being able to search them is kind of a deal breaker. Physically writing them helps me remember, but I'm always going to want to look back and reference things on occasion, that's basically half the purpose of writing them in the first place.
It's the only reason I'd consider getting an iPad, but it just seems so wasteful for that express purpose.
In the exact same boat. Strongly prefer writing notes for many reasons but no easy search really sucks. I currently use Notion mainly as a personal wiki and to-do tracker. Each day gets a new page where I jot down notes and tasks in a loosely structured format. I have found Notion's search to be very useful when trying to remember how or why I did something months ago. However, I still keep a physical, unruled, bound sketchbook for when I want to draw out class relationships, diagrams, etc - i.e anything that is much easier to describe on paper than with text alone. I usually don't need to actually "use" these diagrams - they're more a tool for working out and untangling an issue that eventually gets translated into code. Even with "paper-like" iPad screen protectors, I still strongly prefer writing on paper. So I have not found a way I like to combine Notion and physical writing yet.
But this post has me thinking about separation of concerns. Maybe I should stick to using Notion for anything that I want to search later and use the notebook for the aforementioned drafting and as a work-specific journal. While I haven't tried it much, I believe there's value in "brain-dumping" your day in a simple fashion similar to a diary. A therapist may advise you to deeply introspect on your overall state for that day, which I do think is a valuable tool, but may cause some inertia as a hard requirement for a "work-specific diary". Writing daily events in a simple fashion alongside some optionally additional, also simple, notes could help sort of "flush your mental buffer" of grand-scheme unimportant day-to-day information and help remember more important information. Sort of in the vein of Sherlock Holmes concept of his "mental attic" in the sense that you want to take care of removing/prevent clutter and instead keep track of what's useful to you.
The most important stuff is generally stuff to be memorized, which takes longer than just copying it once but means it's always there when you need it. Even if you only partially memorize it, you remember "oh yeah, there is that one idea..." And the tricks to memorizing are basically forms of "monkey-see-monkey-do". Involve more muscles and sensory info. Add short spacing periods so that the idea lingers. Place it spatially. Writing definitely helps for this since it's slower, physically involving, and you can style it with different formatting and stationary. Real media also works better for these aspects of writing and drawing because the hand-eye coordination is more connected; once it has to go through the computer there is digital goop in the way making it a little laggy, a little aliased or oversmoothed. You go to do something and get interrupted by everything else the computer does. So I do end up with use-once paper just for the purpose of training my brain better.
If I need to organize my paper I stick it in a manila file, label the file, and put a binder clip on. Then it has both spatial position and index. If it gets bigger than that we can grow to a file bin, hanging-file cabinet, etc. But nearly everyone's essential personal or project data is going to max out at one or two cabinets. Above that you are most likely becoming an archivist for other people's data and probably getting away from the task at hand.
For the stuff that is "linking together existing sources", where you can start consuming a vast amount of external data, I have taken to stuffing it in a spreadsheet. Spreadsheet cells are versatile enough for nearly any discrete-informational task and you can organize them into cheat sheets pretty easily. But they aren't so structured that you have to spend a lot of time preparing the structure either, which a lot of dedicated note systems seem to fall into: again, you have to set cutoffs wherever you start turning into an archivist. It can make sense to professionalize it as part of an organization, just not for yourself.
I too prefer a graph paper hard bound notebook and I follow the Ryder Carroll's bullet journaling format. Currently its just a daily log of tasks but I am planning to expand to be a dev log too.
> For long projects, I use Apple notes to capture the plan. When ready to be worked on, I switch to paper.
Interesting, I generally write everything in a notebook transfer it in Trello and generally transfer daily tasks back to daily log as and if needed.
I have a different system, but paper and pen are king. I'm a prolific note taker so I use pen and paper as a landing pad, then periodically I look back and copy the useful information into tickets, documents, wikis, my long term orgmode notes in vcs.
> Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?
Yes. Try https://aliceapp.ai, the iOS app's in the AppStore: https://aliceapp.ai/app. I created this specifically to be as privacy conscious as possible. There's a small, but strong team of engineers behind this and I'm the primary investor. It's not perfect, but works pretty well, with many relying on it everyday.
* We don't require your real email address, nor your phone number.
* We don't use passwords to login, to avoid easy or re-usable passwords. The login process is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by design.
* We don't track your location.
* We don't ask for access to your contacts.
* We don't ask you to allow push notifications.
* We don't store your credit card information in our database.
* We don't use tools like Google Analytics to track your behavior.
* We don't drop any cookies from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera (i.e. any social network) to track browsing habits.
* We aren't on social networks. Our focus is on the product and on communicating directly with you via email, text or phone. We are not into the game of getting "likes".
* We don't prompt you to give us a five-star rating on the App Store.
* We don't annoy you with newsletter signup popups.
* We don't serve you ads.
* Alice is only listening when it's obviously recording. Otherwise the mic is off by default.
Can you say anything about the technology? It appears that this app DOES NOT work fully offline? That would imply that it sends all audio recordings to someone's data center...
Some of your questions are answered in their Privacy policy https://aliceapp.ai/privacy. The data is stored in the US not encrypted at rest but also not used for marketing or research.
It's unfortunate you were downvoted. Perhaps it's because you're self-promoting, but you were up front about it and your pitch was relevant and focused on user needs.
It is up to us to do something about making our software more privacy conscious. And management/leaders/founders have to put up the money to support it.
This project is also an experiment to see if its possible to build a "successful" app without user behavior tracking, without endless AB testing.. and so far it seems totally possible.
I forgot to add that while I'm not an iPhone user (so can't test if it does this already) but if you can set it up to record phone calls it would be an absolute godsend for journalistic purposes.
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