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Real Life Muse Design

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Fri, 2012-12-14 01:38
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sysop sysop's picture
Real Life Muse Design
A bit of a challenge here. I want to gather some recommendations for building effectively as close to a real life muse as you can get with current tools, hosted on a Droid smart phone / the web. Productivity tools, search engines etc. What do you recommend to offload as much of the pre-planning on the toolset as you can get? How would you go about it? Anyone have any suggestions?
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Fri, 2012-12-14 16:08
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
sysop wrote:A bit of a
sysop wrote:
A bit of a challenge here. I want to gather some recommendations for building effectively as close to a real life muse as you can get with current tools, hosted on a Droid smart phone / the web. Productivity tools, search engines etc. What do you recommend to offload as much of the pre-planning on the toolset as you can get? How would you go about it? Anyone have any suggestions?
Hmmm... an interesting question. To get a baseline, how do you feel about selling your soul to the big G? For starters, I would recommend renting one or more VPSes to host most of the information processing that you would have to do. If you can find a provider that does not meter bandwidth, that would be idea. Smartphones do not yet have enough processing power, plus their power cells would run down too fast. For web searching, I would suggest setting up a [url=http://yacy.de/]YaCy[/url] node configured to join the global network. You can not only submit your own search queries to the YaCy network but you can also configure it to follow up on your search terms and add them to the global index; I have done this for two years now and am very satisfied with it as a search engine. YaCy is also designed to protect the privacy of its users, so you do not have to worry about anyone reading up on your search terms. Just to be safe, bookmark DuckDuckGo and Startpage on your mobile. Set up a Startpage URL with your preferred search parameters. For productivity tools, I suggest installing [url=https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite]Etherpad-Lite[/url] on your VPS. Use Apache or nginx as the proxying front-end, which will also give you the option of adding SSL support. Set up authentication if you would like to limit what other people can see. How much personal data do you plan on storing - how much e-mail, how many documents, what kind of documents? I will think more on this on my way home from work.
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Fri, 2012-12-14 16:22
sysop sysop's picture
Worth asking the question if
Worth asking the question if only for the mention of three different services I wasn't aware of. ;) Thanks! Taking the question out of the hypothetical, if this were my own Muse: I'd be aiming with productivity and task making/managing/delegation in mind. Mostly to keep my personal life going, as I have a lot of projects and am not always good at self-discipline to get them done on time. Less trouble doing that for paid gigs or day job. I've got most of my docs and services already running through Google in one way or the other with a sidebar of Dropbox. I need to get better at maintaining inbox-zero, but have an archive email address for long term storage where I dump things after they're used. Others looking to build their own muse probably have a different need set.
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Fri, 2012-12-14 23:14
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
sysop wrote:Worth asking the
sysop wrote:
Worth asking the question if only for the mention of three different services I wasn't aware of. ;) Thanks!
Glad to help, SysOp.
sysop wrote:
Taking the question out of the hypothetical, if this were my own Muse: I'd be aiming with productivity and task making/managing/delegation in mind. Mostly to keep my personal life going, as I have a lot of projects and am not always good at self-discipline to get them done on time. Less trouble doing that for paid gigs or day job.
From that, it sounds like Google Calendar is what would work best for you, not only because it means one less application to manage on a server someplace, but also because it lets you set multiple reminders through multiple communications channels (popups, text messages, and e-mails) at arbitrary times. The projects I work on right now have not needed research into such applications, so I cannot speak to any that I have not used. phpMyCalendar, while nice, is probably lacking in some features that you would find helpful.
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I've got most of my docs and services already running through Google in one way or the other with a sidebar of Dropbox.
So, you would likely not benefit from setting up your own pad or pastebin. Two less things to administer.
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I need to get better at maintaining inbox-zero, but have an archive email address for long term storage where I dump things after they're used.
I find that a good set of sorting rules for my inboxes are essential. As things stand now, I have a dozen e-mail addresses and several times that in rules to sort mail into different folders by sender, mailing list, and priority. Do you have any sort of automated organization system running?
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Others looking to build their own muse probably have a different need set.
That is highly likely. My use cases seem very different from yours. Something I recommend strongly, however, is setting up a personal search engine to index a document repository, if you have one. YaCy is capable of doing that (isolated from the rest of the YaCy P2P network) very efficiently. On my laptop I use [url=http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/]Recoll[/url] to index and search my home directory, local document archives, and e-mail boxes, and it has proven to be invaluable. If you can find what you need fast and easily, one is much less likely to drop out of a productive frame of mind.
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Wed, 2012-12-19 00:32
Chase-san Chase-san's picture
I would think the main idea
I would think the main idea of a muse is to get it to do work for you by telling what it do in natural language (of one type or another). So far the closest would fall into the Intelligent Personal Assistant category. Which means the closest examples currently are things like Siri, Iris, Google Now and S Voice. In case you don't want something like those there is also http://trap.it/ , which has similar functionality. Now the other parts of a Muse are interactivity, visual feedback and things like that. While there are a number of attempts to make visual graphical avatars that can respond to you. The greatest achievements so far are limited to those pet games (the animated desktop ones, not the pet sites, which are completely different thing). As much as I hate to mention it, Clippy, combines some of this together to a degree. But is severely limited. Building one yourself, would probably not be a simple task. But I would be the first to jump on an actual usable muse.
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Fri, 2013-01-04 13:16
sysop sysop's picture
I do like the idea of using a
I do like the idea of using a search engine for my internal stuff. I've a Lot - and I mean a Lot of logs of conversations, tray files, etc etc. If you're familiar with the concept of filers vs. stackers - I'm such a stacker it hurts. So the desktop builds up with files that I'm using all at once, then I get tired enough of looking at them they get dumped into a thematic file folder and lost to all time. Or at least from my awareness. A month later - I need them back. I don't trust Google to search my HD - but something I controlled... sounds like a very good idea. :) I'm not sure how much I would need the visual/audio interface for a Muse myself. I'm just trying to offload mental CPU usage so the interface itself is less important to me as the automation in the background. But since we have at this point three different approaches to the same thing, makes me wonder what other Muse use-patterns are out there?
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Sat, 2013-01-05 11:19
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
sysop wrote:I do like the
sysop wrote:
I do like the idea of using a search engine for my internal stuff. I've a Lot - and I mean a Lot of logs of conversations, tray files, etc etc. If you're familiar with the concept of filers vs. stackers - I'm such a stacker it hurts. So the desktop builds up with files that I'm using all at once, then I get tired enough of looking at them they get dumped into a thematic file folder and lost to all time. Or at least from my awareness. A month later - I need them back. I don't trust Google to search my HD - but something I controlled... sounds like a very good idea. :)
So, it sounds like you are a Warhol (when too much stuff builds up, you sweep it off your desktop into a box and shove it into a closet). I do the same thing. In which case, give Recoll a try (but give it plenty of time to generate its initial set of indices).
sysop wrote:
I'm not sure how much I would need the visual/audio interface for a Muse myself. I'm just trying to offload mental CPU usage so the interface itself is less important to me as the automation in the background.
In general, audio cues seem to be more efficient than visual cues to alert one that a process has complete (the reverse seems to be true of the progress of an ongoing process).
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But since we have at this point three different approaches to the same thing, makes me wonder what other Muse use-patterns are out there?
I think it would depend on the user. You and I are information packrats, storing everything and anything and then throwing it all into a subdirectory when the project is over or the clutter builds up too much. There are certainly other types of users out there - casual browsers, probably.
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