These are really cool! Will also add a version of these mnemonics to the Korean guide I have been writing: https://tolearnkorean.com/
Learning the Korean alphabet (Hangul) can be done quite quickly, it's only about as many "letters" as the English alphabet!
Remembering the words is a bit more difficult though, especially if you don't know a similar language. Have been using Anki and my own app for that: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
I think OpenClaw is the reason we are getting so much AI slop these days. The comments here with "key insights" are coincidentally < 1 month old. It seems for some reason, OpenClaw/NanoClaw loves Show HN posts.
Excited to see many version of such tools to pop up, was also planning on building my own actually. Hope people can share the most competitive ones here in the comments.
The problem is that the majority of people who used to visit websites just ask LLMs nowadays. They don't visit the site itself, where the work origins from, so they also can't give back / support the source.
It's similar to the viewership of coding tutorials having sunk incredibly low these, creators, especially the ones creating high quality content, can't finance such work / content anymore.
> The problem is that the majority of people who used to visit websites just ask LLMs nowadays.
I truly do not believe this is the same type of topic. People visit websites and RSS feeds and writers they care about, and don't ask LLMs for this content. They ask LLMs for content that they don't care about those elements for.
If I want to know what Gruber thinks about iPhone whatever, I'm just going to check Daring Fireball. I'm not going to ask Claude what Gruber thinks.
Then charge for it. I happily pay for high quality services. I pay for Jetbrains editors, I pay for my email, I pay for LLM tokens, and I pay for Patreon subscriptions. Stop supporting content with advertising.
theoldreader was built to be as close as possible to Google Reader. And from an interface PoV it's really close. Problem is that without critical mass you can't do the social features.
Also moving to Sveltia as my CMS (Astro markdown blog), after exploring multiple other options. Changed the structure of my Obsidian vault, will write about that also.
Also love using Obsidian for this! Small suggestion, use the `aliases` property for alternative titles, I usually use them for a title that means the same thing but uses different keywords. Makes it easier to search for a note.
Although usually a bottom-up approach using automatically updating `Map of Content` notes (Bases) work well for me for finding content.
For myself, I have developed a so-called default template for notes.
```
---
aliases:
- <%tp.file.title%>
tags:
---
%%
[[<%tp.file.creation_date("YYYY-MM-DD")%>]]
%%
```
<%tp.file.title%> for aliases, it is necessary to always refer to the alias [[note|note alias]] notes in the text (if I refer without a pseudonym, then by accidentally or intentionally changing the name of the note, I can ruin the text in all places where it occurs
There is also a template for different types of notes, which is selected when creating a note in a specific folder or creating it using QuickAdd.:
For example, when I add a link to the author to a book note and use keyboard shortcuts to create a note page for the author, the following template is used:
Obsidian is great and highly performant, even though it's using Electron. Electron is a huge advantage, faster development and the option to customise it easily with plugins.
It's not highly performant, its startup time is a multiple of that of native apps. Nothing is easy about plugins, APIs you expose/maintain define that, not Electron, and those can be good/bad in any system. Electron gives easier access to UI styling, but then again, real "easily" comes from the structure/stability of your UI, otherwise your plugins would break all the time. Also, same as with APIs - e.g, Joplin is Electron, but you can only style on a desktop. Then, of course, there are plenty of Electron apps that you can't style at all and that don't support plugins.
I'm happy for devs' "faster development", but as a user I care about "faster use", which Electron blocks outright
Startup time in Obsidian could be better (we're working on it!), but performance is more than startup time. It's making interactions fast throughout the entire app. Obsidian is only three developers but we spend a lot of time shaving off milliseconds everywhere we can. Keystrokes, scrolling, querying, navigating large vaults, opening and parsing large Markdown files, etc.
In 2025 we made reduced startup time on mobile under 0.5s (used to be several seconds), made search nearly instantaneous and released Bases to make complex queries equally fast (much faster than Dataview and other pre-existing solutions).
Thank you for this work! I had tried Obsidian every year or so and the performance switching/opening notes drove me crazy in the past. I like it to feel instant and I'm more sensitive to UI performance than others. Just tried again, and it passes the threshold for me!
Learning the Korean alphabet (Hangul) can be done quite quickly, it's only about as many "letters" as the English alphabet!
Remembering the words is a bit more difficult though, especially if you don't know a similar language. Have been using Anki and my own app for that: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
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