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RE: so far so interesting, but confused how to get material in

Protolyst Team — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:17:33 +0000

@joebtay73 As Maddy said, do feel free to start integrating 'Web Nodes' into your workflows and let me know any feedback. It's still lacking some functionality such as Atom highlighting, but the core extraction and capture process is live and ready.

It works well at the moment with articles on the web, but I'd be interested to know what works and doesn't work for you. Just let me know and it will help inform development over the coming weeks :)

RE: so far so interesting, but confused how to get material in

maddy_protolyst — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:56:54 +0000

@joebtay73
The web nodes alpha should be up and running for you!

When you add URLs into the first column of your table and then open up that row as a page you should be able to extract atoms from it within Protolyst - please let us know how you get on and any bugs we can work on fixing

RE: Delete Atoms?

maddy_protolyst — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:48:18 +0000

Hi Kateb,

'Deep delete' is on the way! At the moment this works like a 'recycle bin' style setup so that you don't accidentally lose any of your atoms. You can delete them fully by opening up the atom and deleting it from the workspace search

RE: so far so interesting, but confused how to get material in

joebtay73 — Tue, 24 May 2022 18:13:15 +0000

@ric_protolyst Hi there- saw on twitter that web nodes now in pre release alpha- possible to have a go?

Delete Atoms?

kateb — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:46:48 +0000

is there a clean way to get rid of all the template atoms and pages?
I deleted them from my menu but they show up when I search

RE: Hide embedded url from page

ben_protolyst — Tue, 24 May 2022 08:23:41 +0000

Hi! Not at the moment, but we are planning a visuals clean up sprint coming up soon!

Zettelkasten for Researchers on Protolyst

ben_protolyst — Thu, 19 May 2022 13:52:01 +0000

Hi all,

I just posted an intro to how I use Protolyst for taking notes as an academic researcher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6ELlCIl1w

I use a Zettelkasten-like approach. Here are the steps

Create - a "Sources" or "Bibliography" table to hold all your PDFs and a "Permanent Notes" table for your important notes
Upload - pdf version of a scientific article/paper/journal into my Protolyst "Sources" database
Capture Fleeting Notes - Read the article and atomise important information
Add Context - either after reading the article or as you capture each atom, edit the Atom text to be in your own words. This is important for making the information understandable to "future you".
Permanent Notes - Go through each Atom and where ideas are particularly important, add a new page from the Atom in your "Permanent Notes" database and write a complete concept note, pooling knowledge from sources already in your workspace
Link Permanent Notes - Find connections to other pages and Atoms to add depth and connection to your ideas and help you to stumble upon related ideas

Cheers!

Ben

Hide embedded url from page

tj3 — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:05:31 +0000

Is there anyway of removing the embed url bar after embedding?
Just looking to clean up pages. Thanks!

RE: so far so interesting, but confused how to get material in

joebtay73 — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:38:40 +0000

@ric_protolyst that is indeed exciting and thank you for the response re notes! So far am really pleased with how this is working

RE: so far so interesting, but confused how to get material in

Protolyst Team — Tue, 17 May 2022 08:51:40 +0000

Hi Joe,

I'm looking forward to showing you the automated content extraction from web pages this week. I'll be in touch to give you early bird access.

Regarding offline support, the answer is a little complex:

If you're writing in a note and go offline, your content will resync with our servers as soon as you reconnect, as long as you keep the note you are working on open.

If you aren't looking to write notes and instead you want to just add notes, use tables, atoms or other features, you can do so freely and your content will resync as long as you keep the app open in that tab.

However, for the time being, I'd recommend avoiding pushing this to it's limits as it's relatively experimental. instead, we are working on more robust offline capabilities and a dedicated 'offline' mode, though this will be limited to one tab.

Regarding Modules:

Modules are 'published' Protolyst content that you will be able to work through and explore.

Uniquely, modules give the creator the ability to set some content as 'read only', but keep other content as interactive.

At the moment, Modules are only in use by our enterprise customers, but in the not too distant future, we envision a public marketplace for you to browse templates and workflows, which can directly export into your private workspace.

Do keep the questions and feedback coming, it's great to have you on board.

Ric