Interesting how ephemeral notes on nostr are. It feels very much like Twitter, once something is a day old, good luck ever finding it again!

This isn't necessarily a problem, most of this stuff should be ephemeral. But some kind of mechanism for evergreen-ing some content would be good.

Bookmarks and pinned notes kind of get to that, but maybe clients should support something more opinionated, like "collections" — implemented as lists probably, but designed to be read through in connection with some external context, like a pubkey or topic.

So for example, you want to know what I think about political philosophy? Well, here's an ordered list of 50 of the best notes I've collected over the course of 10 years by combining highlights, quotes, and original content. A kind of micro-publishing thing.

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There's a great collection of car notes from npub1utwlg5znf4m63qne92pl8gsg4te6yy3xj3w0ygpzctc6rdnuz9escphn6h on there. 🤙

2 great minds must think alike😁😂 Just posted my reply to nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn just as you posted this.

Disappearing stuff is the biggest setback in nostr,

I told it many times.

This is a cool idea. I wonder if it’s a real use case where AI could help categorize and curate.

Twitter search is amazing if you know how to use it. Nostr search not so much...yet.

I can’t break from Twitter just yet. It’s still too good. Variety of info there too is a draw. Mixing between Nostr & Twitter is the way right now. IMO.

Finding old notes got a bit easier with https://advancednostrsearch.vercel.app if you know what you are searching for…

Advanced search on Nostr is starting to show potential. But definitely not as useful as Twitter’s yet.

Where can I find the nostr.band advanced search? I poked around and didn't see it anywhere.

The only way I know to get to it is to search for some term and then it appears here. Not sure if there’s a more direct way.

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aHA

I use this hope it helps

https://advancednostrsearch.vercel.app/

Yes 🙌 a great search tool. I keep that one bookmarked

I've never had much luck with twitter search, it always feels like I either can't remember the proper search term, or the stuff I'm looking for got banned

The main issue is that it’s not actually ephemeral. Meaning you lose the benefit of the “Snapchat” use case where you may not necessarily want your thoughts to be permanent.

But yet they are, somewhere on some relay, for a future interested party to discover one day…

Imagine thinking that Snapchat actually deletes the data 😂

Fair - I guess what you’re saying is it’s not provably possible to have data be ephemeral

For better or worse, “snapchat” is not a “person” in the minds of users. So no “one” can see the pic once it’s gone. That is perfectly fine for most people.

Privacy between users is more important than privacy between user and server for most people.

How about collections of notes that are crowdsourced by your web of trust?

Click a button and see what your web of trust says are the most relevant notes of all time on some topic of interest. Example: Most Historically Significant Nostr Notes of All Time, curated by my grapevine.

Yes, that would be amazing

I’m hoping that the DCoSL protocol will make stuff like that possible. Currently implemented in Pretty Good Apps.

https://github.com/wds4/DCoSL

https://github.com/wds4/pretty-good

Interesting, I'll take a look

From your lips to God's ear (or at least the ears of some bright devs😜😆)...

With ZAPs, all posts are potentially evergreen, as they should be. This is an improvement over Hive, for example, where I archive most of my writing:

https://peakd.com/a/@creatr/b

If I had the time to learn nostr coding, I'd create a library tool to present evergreen notes in a similar format...

Amethyst has a bookmark feature, but I don't know if it works.

#amethyst

It works! Not sure if that was what you were looking for, though.

Ephemeral by default and optionally permanent is how Gun db works. The permanence comes by hashing the data. I like that model https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Frozen

I agree.

Collections 🙌