Glasp Community Meetup
Thank you for joining! We have a community meetup on the second Friday every month! This is a brief note about what we talked about in the community meetup.
Please register for the next community meetup:
4/12/2024
Attendees:
- Alessio Frateily: https://glasp.co/alessiofrateily
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Alessio's update.
- Glasp mobile apps' bugs - loading issue.
- Development in an organization.
- AI & Web3.
3/15/2024
Attendees:
- Ron Sheridan: https://glasp.co/#/ronsheridan
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Glasp's UX problem and improvement.
- Glasp's management.
- We need more people to speed up development.
2/16/2024
Attendees:
- Ron Sheridan: https://glasp.co/#/ronsheridan
- Anna Gliwinska: https://glasp.co/#/ag
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Reading list on Glasp profile page.
- Like Linktree.
- Product roadmap
- Why don't Glasp have the product roadmap?
- It's one of the ways to engage/communicate with users.
1/12/2024
Attendees:
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/ItsTechnical
- Alessio Frateily: https://glasp.co/alessiofrateily
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Pizza problem.
- Is pizza the best food in the world? At least, it's the universal food that people can eat everywhere in the world.
- If aliens come to the Earth, what food will we give them as a representative food?
- Pastas in the US are made of foreign ingredients. It's called "foreign noodle"? Carlos experienced it when he was in Shanghai.
- CES 2024
- Any interesting company or project?
- Alessio: Tesla Robot.
- Rabbit: an AI product.
- Japanese stationary.
- TikToker: bungustore
- Recommended notebook: TOMOE RIVER NOTEBOOKS
- Carlos uses iA Writer, a notebook.
- Founder: Oliver Reichenstein, living in Tokyo, Japan.
- Carlos uses LAMY, a pen made in Germany.
- Carlos's portfolio.
- Amazon program
- Carlos's Amazon profile.
- How to follow other people on Amazon?
- He gets free stuff from makers sometime and writer a review about it after using it for a while.
- Kei joined the Amazon program around half a year ago, but he hasn't been receiving any free stuff. Is that because he writes reviews about books only?
12/15/2023
Attendees:
- Tim Bushell: https://glasp.co/#/1blfef0bx4otwy8y
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Tim is in Dubai.
- Fireworks
- Highlighting books.
- What’s doing the next?
- YouTube Transcript
11/10/2023
Attendees:
- Ray Maruschak: https://glasp.co/#/jojqalgmokj8vmqn
- Anna Gliwinska: https://glasp.co/#/ag
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
What we talked about (brief notes)
- CustomGPT
- Sisyphus
- Toronto - law
- Esha - Germany
- Beer
- German
- Marketing - keyword research
- Book review
- Journaling
- Kazuki: 10 years
- Esha: 3 years
- Digital journaling
- What if after we pass away?
- Will we publish it as a book?
- Tools:
- Mindset
- Rocketnotebook (https://getrocketbook.com/)
- Anna
- Facebook ads
- Kiev
- Went see a doctor
- Talk about marketing
10/13/2023
Attendees:
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Ron Sheridan: https://glasp.co/#/ronsheridan
- Anna Gliwinska: https://glasp.co/#/ag
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Thank you for insightful, useful, and deep feedback 🙇♂️
- Carlos shared feedback on iOS tablet.
- We should update a flow to highlight content on tablet.
- Atomic Graph
- Discovery of content is promising.
- If discovery is good, he’s going to engage more in the app.
- Keyword, profile, who
- Content
- Source of content
- Actual content
- He wants to use Atomic graph to see who he should pay attention to.
- Profile, top content, etc.
- Discovery of content is promising.
- UX/UI problem
- He wants to see himself, his identity, etc based on Glasp, Atomic Graph.
- If he can learn from others, give him a way to do it.
- Discovery is the key to the eco-system.
- Re-discovery of content.
- Personality insights
- All the features are in cyro.
- Problem that Glasp solves
- Quality of content - find
- Source of information
- Carlos shares Glasp on his Substack article so that readers can track the source.
- Solutions
- Pro Glasper, pro curator, a guy to go
- For Glasp to grow, Glasp needs a path to grow.
- Consumer → Curator → Creator
- Personality test
- It’s a hackathon project
- Marketing project
- Hatch
- If it’s done elegantly, it’s the next breakthrough.
9/8/2023
Attendees:
- Tara B: https://glasp.co/#/THLiterary
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Thanks for the review!
- Language
- Food - Vietnamese
- The most interesting country you have been to
• Dubai, Singapore, The Philippines, India - Drink
• Dr. Pepper, Cocktail, Baileys Irish Cream - Movie
• Barbie - Android app
• Save it later
• Notion - Private option
• Two accounts
• For highlighting confidential or work-related content - Highlight colors
• Green: Esha - Headline
• Four colors - it’s comfortable, not too much.
8/11/2023
Attendees:
- Tim Bushell: https://glasp.co/#/1blfef0bx4otwy8y
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Generative AI learning path: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/journeys/118
- Glasp's mobile app
- Idea for stack
• Versioning, Filter by date, folder, etc.
• Re-highlight - API for Obsidian
• So with cut'n'paste… the tags and highlights v notes all need to formatted as tags, metadata and admonitions for the highlights, etc. - Meaning for highlights
• https://blog.glasp.co/what-does-each-highlighting-color-mean/ - Product Roadmap
• Update highlight logic
• Android app
• Image highlights
7/14/2023
Attendees:
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
- Eden Chan: https://glasp.co/#/79cu4l3bt4rjlkgg
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Eden’s update
• Complementary Opposing News (CON)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAqrvcHo2Bw
• Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning Part 1
• Perplexity
• ChatHub
• He likes to learn how technology works.
• Metaculus
• Market for prediction.
6/16/2023
Attendees:
- Tara B: https://glasp.co/#/THLiterary
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
- Malcolm Mason Rodriguez: https://glasp.co/#/malcolmjmr
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Tara’s updates
• System manager, at a store
• Job interview, Leadership - TikTok
• Algorythm - Hamster
- Dr. Pepper
• Yazoo - AI
• Copyright
• Hatch - Other profiles
• See their overlapped interests - Check this product: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twemex-sidebar-for-twitte/amoldiondpmjdnllknhklocndiibkcoe
- Glasp description
• Organizing information on the web
• Organizing information manually - This is the missing points on the web
5/12/2023
Attendees:
- Tara B: https://glasp.co/#/THLiterary
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Glasp’s update:
• Google io
• Hatching article - Tara
• Martial arts. Jujutsu.
• Mindset, discipline, diligence, etc.
• Tea class.
• Japanese archery
• Mindset of Zen.
• Shu - ha - ri - AI - ChatGPT
• Translation accuracy.
• We should understand the behind culture and thoughts. AI can do that?
• Most of issues come from communication. - Fictional words / Fiction
• Monkeys can write the same story of William Shakespeare
• Infinite randomness & infinite combination
• Homo sapiens vs. Home neanderthalensis
• The history of Japanese imperial family
• People believe story - Learning history & linguistic
• History education in our country
• European royal family
• Marries to royal family in different countries
• House of Windsor
4/14/2023
Attendees:
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Ron Sheridan: https://glasp.co/#/ronsheridan
- Rawda Baha: https://glasp.co/#/xks20libxupe6mp2
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Glasp will become a writing and publishing platform?
• Carlos’s newsletter: https://carloscfranco.substack.com/
• Carlos uses iAwriter: https://ia.net/writer
• Ron thinks that it’s fascinating if Glasp is going to be a publisher platform. - Ron uses Linkedin a lot.
• It’s an ecosystem.
• For both sales, business development, interaction, and discovery of content.
• Glasp is an unique ecosystem that people are doing something without publishing. - Substack and Medium are competing each other in terms of # of followers, # of impressions, etc.
• Glasp is a natural community.
• People don’t need to compete each other.
• Use Glasp as their workspace. Publish content on Glasp if they want. And go to Substack or Medium if they want. - Do you think you can see people’s characteristics, personality, and minds by looking at their Glasp profile?
• Carlos thinks so.
• If he goes to Heidi’s profile page, he can see what her next article. - Tagging
• Ron wants to see who are the people highlighting contents based upon his interests.
• Glasp can recommend people based on the tag on the Atomic Graph.
• If he goes to the highlighted article, based on the most used tag, it recognizes the types of the article. And Glasp can recommend people using that tag a lot and frequently. - What’s the algorithm of the Home feed?
• Popular? Time frame?
• Robert Scoble
• https://twitter.com/Scobleizer
• https://scobleizer.blog/
3/10/2023
Attendees:
- Alex Chen:
- Charishma Ambati: https://glasp.co/#/l3ow8zvb62dhvxxz
- Partha baruah:
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Charishma is an MBA student.
- Partha is from India.
- Product roadmap
• Mobile app
• Glasp monetization? - What’s the workflow?
• Apple note
• Obsidian
• Notion
• Evernote - Life story
• Kazuki’s life story
• Kei’s life story - Book
• Daily book?
• Naval Ravikant
• https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant/table-of-contents
2/10/2023
Attendees:
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Andy Chiang: https://glasp.co/#/pj59udnpa0p9owje
- Paulo Poba: https://glasp.co/#/zwum0a1psbfrxgj4
- Anwesha RC: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
- Partha Baruah Official: https://glasp.co/#/zlm9e42wu90shbm2
- Esteban Balderas: https://glasp.co/#/EstebanBalderas
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Andy is from New York.
He’s a founder, working on a product about no code for video and audio. - Paulo is from Dubai.
- We introduced new settings.
Highlight pop-up on/off.
Copy format - MD. - Roadmap
Medium
Mobile app - Podcast highlighter?
https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
https://huggingface.co/spaces/kazuk/youtube-whisper-04 - Esha
Book review.
Death Comes to the Costa del Sol by M.H. Eccleston
She reads a book and takes a note every day. Then, she looks back at the note that she took one year ago. - Carlos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Brown_novel)
inferno, purgatorio and paradiso - 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57850265-how-high-we-go-in-the-dark?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3bWOsgbo2V&rank=1 - Kazuki talked to a founder of SmartNews.
https://www.smartnews.com/en - Paulo reads a book.
It’s about knowing the origin of you and seeing the future direction. - Esteban starts using Tana.
They have atomic graph feature :)
He likes the tag of Roam Research. - Glasp will make a feature of tagging with AI.
It’s backend.
We can show the recommended content. - Dark mode
Esha uses dark mode, but when she takes notes, she uses dark mode.
Carlos uses dark mode when he’s reading at night. So as not to disturb his partner. - YouTube watching list
Esha
https://www.notion.so/templates/ali-abdaal-resonance-calendar
Visit later
Notion web clipper
Esteban
I have to go now, for YouTube, I create playlists inside the app that work like tags, but I need a better system - Small group for the community meetup?
Or big one?
Pros and cons
1/13/2023
Attendees:
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
https://linktr.ee/carloscfranco - Andy Sporring: https://glasp.co/#/AndersSporring
https://sporring.biz/?gi=d0f750dacbb7 - Derek Reinhard: https://glasp.co/#/9iwsfq4p6ujjb7z9
https://derekreinhard.medium.com/
https://twitter.com/that_clever_fox - Fred Blauer: https://glasp.co/#/g4lybq8d35vmcpkh
Medium: https://medium.com/@fblauer
https://twitter.com/fblauer - Danny Mejia: https://glasp.co/#/rfn294ns7bhz7te1
https://twitter.com/DannyMejiaRM - Juan: https://glasp.co/#/muriente
- Abbas: https://glasp.co/#/9hau6s1gxd4gmi87
https://twitter.com/abbasabdelila - Mike Nall: https://glasp.co/#/privatealliance
- Bradley Boldt: https://glasp.co/#/BradleyB
- Esteban Balderas: https://glasp.co/#/EstebanBalderas
https://twitter.com/EstebanBaldera - Anwesha RC: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
https://twitter.com/anwesha_rc
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Generative AI.
- Google penalize AI-generated content?
- https://www.perplexity.ai/
- Generation Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones - https://paragraph.xyz/@fblauer
- Glasp’s usecases.
- Atomic habits
https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits - Esteban’s questions:
How to choose what to read
How to take notes
How to connect your notes
How to highlight - How to take notes? by Niklas Luhmann
- How about a mobile app?
We’re still working on it.
Do you want to highlight on mobile? Or just read?
→ Highlight
We need a tablet app, too. - Hook by Nir Eyal
- Comment feature?
Discussion forum
Interaction & unique content on Glasp - AI feature?
AI puts summary to each highlights with footnotes
Popup window like a shopping cart?
Compare to original source, rephrase, etc.
Like writing hub.
Share that quote on Twitter. - AI digital model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ll5c50MrPs&feature=shares&t=534
“gist” of things
12/09/2022
Attendees:
- Ron Sheridan: https://glasp.co/#/ronsheridan
- Carlos Franco: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Esha: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
- Brandon:
- Estaban: https://glasp.co/#/EstebanBalderas
- Moe: https://glasp.co/#/Pearl_Divers
What we talked about (brief notes)
- Generative AI is very hot recently.
- ChatGPT
Carlos uses ChatGPT this morning. - Ron started a company to sell a computer in 1979.
- https://elicit.org/
- Kazuki let ChatGPT write a book about fantasy and they kept writing 6,000 words... The content was really impressive.
- https://twitter.com/michlbrmly/status/1599168681711656961
- https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1601233605312643072
- https://twitter.com/RamaswmySridhar/status/1600209221458399233
- Askjeeves! - Search engine. Brandon’s favorite.
- When Google was launched
Ron’s insight: They did pretty well at behavioral things like how do people react? Ranking, CTR, etc. - Books
Hook (Estaban)
Fast and slow (Carlos)
The Seep (Carlos)
The Three-Body Problem (Carlos)
Foundation series (Estaban)
Foundation series
Esha read this book in a part of high school class. - Chat downloaded from Zoom.
11/11/2022
Attendees:
What we talked about (brief notes)
10/21/2022
Attendees:
- Andy Sporring: https://glasp.co/#/AndersSporring
- Carlos F: https://glasp.co/#/ItsTechnical
- Tara B: https://glasp.co/#/THLiterary
- Jorge D. Serrano: https://glasp.co/#/The_skill_lab
- Sudara Gunaratna:
What we talked about (brief notes):
- Glasp users use Refind a lot.
- Andy is in the 5th cohort of the Ship30for30
- Carlos uses warmly.ai to make a background on Zoom.
- https://lex.page/
- Ali Abdaal created twitter threads with AI. And it got 1M impression.
https://twitter.com/AliAbdaal/status/1583203039967850497 - https://sporring.biz/
- Information condense.
https://www.axios.com/smart-brevity - Andy likes summary AI.
https://www.summari.com/ - AI can teach people?
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-engineered-student-on-b-f-skinners-teaching-machine/
If AI can give the perfect education to people from an infant to an adult, people will never make crime? - People start search things with AI instead of Google.
Voice search will come soon. - Carlos uses Lunchclub now.
https://lunchclub.com - We launched a page to see like-minded people on Glasp.
https://glasp.co/likeminds/
09/16/2022
Attendees:
- Carlos F: https://glasp.co/#/CarlosCFranco
- Anwesha RC: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
- Emmanuel Laurent: https://glasp.co/#/fnh1s16pjfhqatwf
- Uchendu Walters
What we talked about (brief notes):
- YouTube video: 1. Introduction: five first lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3rTU927io - The Brain - Emmanuel uses.
https://www.thebrain.com/ - BookTasters - You can get free books in return of your honest review.
https://twitter.com/BookTasters - Predictable Irrational - A favorite book. Recommended for people who start knowledge management.
https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248 - What makes us feel good about our work
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work?language=en - Irrational Bundle Predictably Irrationality Dishonesty
https://www.amazon.com/Irrational-Bundle-Predictably-Irrationality-Dishonesty-ebook/dp/B00BHEJ4IW/ref=sr_1_3?crid=F0A7V0Y8HJNE&keywords=dan+ariely+irrational&qid=1663353912&sprefix=dan+ariely+irrational%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-3 - Neeva
Carlos uses Neeva.
Neeva has credibility ranking in the search result.
Spaces can be shared with other people. - Flowclub
https://www.flow.club/ - Focusity Space
https://focusity.space/ - Centered app
https://www.centered.app/ - TLDR newsletter, recommended by Esha.
https://tldr.tech/
YouTube
08/13/2022
Attendees:
- Scott Willson: https://glasp.co/#/3n7a67ulu2fdby3v
- Queenie Tang: https://glasp.co/#/queenietang
What we talked about (brief notes):
- Highlight color labeling
Scott’s system
Yellow: common
Pink: key points in the article - Yellow is subconsciously highlighting color?
- Note-taking
He uses Obsidian for note-taking.
Obsidian - daily notes in the morning, about a company, and books. - Importing newsletter like Matter?
- Partnership with Matter or Instapaper?
- He uses Liner
They’re going to socialize more.
They can highlight YT, podcasts, and audiobooks. - Obsidian donation
He donates to Eleanor. - Scott’s background
- Why did we start Glasp?
- What do we hope for from having this community meetup?
08/12/2022
Attendees:
- Jaka Godejša: https://glasp.co/#/jaka_godejsa
- Carlos F: https://glasp.co/#/CarlosCFranco
https://glasp.co/usecase/glasp-and-technical-writer-carlos-franco - Agu Joseph: https://glasp.co/#/mpafmdbwjwjqz7vd
- Anwesha RC: https://glasp.co/#/anwesha_rc
https://twitter.com/anwesha_rc - Esteban Balderas: https://glasp.co/#/EstebanBalderas
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJyZgAuR5Ckm6j38w2jByQ
What we talked about (brief notes):
- Esteban, Jaka, Anwesha, and Carlos use Notion
Dani Canosa: https://glasp.co/#/f8o2xekf98x5og8d
Esteban’s friend. A YouTube creator in Spain.
We updated and added a Readwise button on the sidebar thanks to his suggestion.
https://twitter.com/_Glasp/status/1553538483439841280 - Book review
The author gives a book to readers for free and asks for a review.
Anwesha’s website: https://felixfelicitatedblog.wordpress.com/ - Community curation & Web3
Owning the articles through NFT.
Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/kazukinakayashiki.eth - Highlight color labeling/system
Kazuki:
Pink: Important, resonated
Yellow: Very important, resonated, something sparked in his mind.
Carlos’s system:
https://glasp.co/usecase/glasp-and-technical-writer-carlos-franco
You can show the meaning of color on the profile page. - Book organizing
Readwise
Kindle highlights & notes export
From Kindle, Kindle app on mobile.
If you export from a Kindle device, there is no limit.
Amazon online reader: read.amazon.com - Calendar reading habits
Something like Gather Town?
https://www.gather.town/
Zoom to share screens and discuss
Glasp would send some articles to read
Text information is not synchronized - Wants read-it-later function on Glasp (Esteban)
On the profile, bookmark.
Show status
Open to conversation
Opening DM is an option. - Anwesha likes the insightful button and atomic graph.
- Managing knowledge from video.
YT scribe: https://ytscribe.com/ - Managing knowledge from audio
We don’t have a way to organize it yet. - Highlighting Twitter
We don’t have it because we are focusing on long-format content now.
Thank you for joining! We have a community meetup on the second Friday every month! See you next time 🙂