Building a Modern Memex
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A working Memex implemented in JavaScript pulls together dozens of importers, OCRs every image, stores 6 million activities and 5 million entities with about 17 million relationships, exposes a graph-based API, and answers nested queries quickly by translating a custom query language into SQL with Postgres powering graph queries. The desktop app uses Electron, the UI is Ember, importers run as Node scripts, reads and writes use separated endpoints, and the demos and dashboards demonstrably return useful, contextual results.
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