dümlat

Commentary assistant for arbitrary texts.

Uses Emacs with Python.

Features

• Juxta. Parsing through the text while comparing to previous and next sentences.
  • Hyla. Smart highlighting and annotation for key terms and definitions.
• Glossa. Side notes for hermeneutics per term.
• Reco. Recombination and summarization.
• Agu. The formal argumentation structure of the text.
• Ques. Converting summaries into questions, and arguments into test.
• Tood. Sequencing mediums of a type into critical path of steps to internalize them.
  • Verif. Validate the integrity of your text and your learning with citation trails and links.
  • Capt. Templates for different media like books, lectures, problem sets, close-reading...
• Inca. Reviewing the prose as well as your notes.
• Sly. Scrivener-style side-views.
• Tranc. Transclusion.
• Arr. Archiving integration.

Modes

• https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter
• https://github.com/louietan/anki-editor
• https://github.com/fgeller/highlight-thing.el
• https://github.com/istib/wordsmith-mode
• https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/speech-tagger
• https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs
• https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgAnnotateFile
• https://github.com/nobiot/org-marginalia
• https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/PostScript.html
• https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
• https://github.com/indrajithi/genquest
• https://mullikine.github.io/posts/spacy-in-emacs/
• https://github.com/zawawiAI/yolo_gpt

Why? Consider the workflow.

0: Import media

Modes: Postscript Printer, PDFTools, DocView

1: Read media

Modes: Highlight Thing, Wordsmith Mode, Speech-Tagger, Org-Drill, SpaCY in Emacs

2: Make notes

Modes: Org-Noter, Wordsmith Mode, Speech-Tagger, SpaCY in Emacs

3: Form questions

Modes: Anki Editor, GenQuest

4: Combine notes

Modes: Org-Rifle

5: Schedule review

Modes: Anki, Org-Drill

Tweaks

• A button (like hyperbole) that triggers org-rifle on keyword on some default set of notes files?
• Wordsmith Mode reimplemented in NLTK or Gensym?
• Need a mode for "Automatic Factual Question Generation" (GenQuest)
• Continually suggesting related passages and files?

Inspiration

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/26/reading-code-is-like-reading-the-talmud/

http://kronosapiens.github.io/blog/2016/01/11/blockchain-as-talmud.html

http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/12/30/talmudic-codes/

https://codearsonist.com/reading-for-programmers

https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/pdfs/TurnIt/TurnIt_CH4.pdf

"Automatic Question Generation from Text for Self-Directed Learning" https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/56377127.pdf

Alternatives

Polar. Marginnote.