Arun Antony

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Descrita pelos criadores como um bloco de notas inteligente para mentes curiosas, a #Gistr foi desenvolvida a pensar em estudantes e investigadores, mas também pode ser útil para profissionais que lidam com grandes volumes de informação @GistrHQ Leia + tek.sapo.pt/extras/site-do…

Dan Koe wrote 5,000 words on fixing your life. I read the whole thing in 3 minutes.

Your notes from today's lecture make zero sense. Here's a 3-minute fix. 👇

Just discovered a stunning AI model that brings Indian art traditions to life! This text-to-image generator specializes in Madhubani, Warli, and Rangoli styles. Perfect for artists and culture enthusiasts wanting to explore digital heritage.

@heynavtoor @HcwXd @WonderingApp Congrats @HcwXd on the launch!

@HcwXd @WonderingApp duolingo for everything is a concept people have been waiting for. the active learning piece is what will make or break it vs just another AI tutor

I left NotebookLM a few months ago to solve a bigger problem in learning. Today, as the first step, we are launching @WonderingApp for early access. It's Duolingo for anything — turning any topic into a guided path with bite-size visual lessons that can fit into your busy schedule. But you don't sacrifice depth/effectiveness for convenience: Total Control: You decide how deep you want to go, how difficult the material should be, and how personalized the experience feels. Active Learning: We provide the tools you need to practice, test your understanding, and actually apply what you’ve learned. Long-term Mastery: It’s built to help you truly remember and master any subject, not just skim the surface.

@AdamMGrant Or it reveals what identity you're trying to build. Half the self-improvement readers aren't applying any of it.. they're just collecting the personality.

The books you love are a window into your personality. •Mystery & self-improvement attract conscientious people •Sci-fi, psychology, philosophy draw open-minded people •Memoir & horror appeal to neurotic people Reading doesn't just shape our views. It reveals what we're like.

@readswithravi Physical for focus, e-book for search. The real problem is neither format helps you use what you read. Highlights sit there. Notes go nowhere. Format debate is mostly a distraction from that.

Is there anyone else who still favors reading physical books over e-books in 2026?

@a16z @pmarca @lennysan The barbell makes sense for consumption. But it still doesn't solve retention - doesn't matter if it's a 2026 tweet or a 1970 book, most of it evaporates by next week. The format of input isn't the bottleneck anymore.

.@pmarca breaks down his reading diet: "I have an almost perfect barbell strategy, which is: I read X and I read old books." "It's either up-to-the-minute what's happening right now, or it's a book that was written 50 years ago that has stood the test of time." With @lennysan

@oprydai 100%. The best way to actually think, rather than just consume.

books are still the best way to learn something. they force linear thinking in a non-linear world. no shortcuts. no feeds. no dopamine hacks. just ideas stacked on ideas. a good book compresses decades of thinking into a few hundred pages. you inherit the author’s mental models, failures, edge cases, and tradeoffs; not just conclusions. videos show what. books explain why. tools teach usage. books teach judgment. if you want opinions, scroll. if you want understanding, read.

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I don't think it's laziness. I think it's something much more interesting. That's what this series is about. Stay tuned!

There's something called decision deferral. When you can't decide if something is worth your time, you don't decide. You save it. The brain closes the loop. feels like action. feels like progress. only 16% of saved things are ever revisited. So here's the question I can't stop thinking about... Are we saving to use? or saving to feel like the kind of person who would?

Starting a new series of write-ups called "The Thinking Mode." First up... why do we keep saving? I've been thinking about the save button. Not as a feature, as a behaviour. Every time you hit save, your brain thinks of it as a reward. I've been thinking about why we do this. Turns out it's not a new problem. or even a digital one.

@peeceeliciouss Thanks! Thrilled you dig the project 😊

@arunantonya hard to believe and good to know that only 620 follower person create such good things.. ❤️

@ipo_mantra As founder of @GistrHQ, I'd love to support NDLI's mission! Gistr turns PDFs, books & videos into retained knowledge via AI powered Notebook, perfect for making these resources more accessible to students & remote learners. Happy to integrate via APIs and run a pilot for your team, students or teachers

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@deedydas Great initiative for improving reading habits

Today, I'm excited to launch my lifelong passion project, Grand Old Books!! 🚀 There are 1000s of beautiful novels of the past, not in English, locked up in old PDFs, with no physical copies left. We started with Indian texts and brought back 12 books in 6 languages with pictures and annotations. This is, and will always be, completely free. We can't let time wash away history. Please comment to let me know what book you'd like to see added.

You can generate a reading list all day but if you're not actually tracking what you pulled from where, the sources blur together fast and you waste hours re-finding stuff or losing the thread of your argument. The scattered database hunt you're describing is exactly why most researchers end up with PDFs in five folders they can't search through. honestly, Gistr helps here because you can pull sources from Scholar, PubMed, YouTube talks, whatever, then actually ground your notes to the original material so you're not just building a bibliography in the void. You see what each source actually said and how it connects to your project as you're building the review.

The proposed task is more of bibliography construction surrounding a topic, to read later for a project such as starting a true literature review. The prompt schedule here, nevertheless a useful tool. To be comprehensive, the search for sources should cover many known databases beyond Google Scholar, from PubMed, ResearchGate, Dissertation Abstracts, other assembled databases from LLM's such as Bright.AI and so on, whereever the researcher often goes for publications. With the advent of AI tools, conference presentations, panel discussions, and interviews on YouTube could also be searched.

R.I.P. Google Scholar for literature reviews. Perplexity reads 500+ papers in minutes and builds citation maps automatically. Here are 8 prompts for PhD-level systematic reviews that actually work (Save for later):