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When you brainstorm, research, meme dump, price-shop, or want to save a screenshot for later, BBKB strives to keep up with your collection of interests and discoveries- at pace.
1. Create a card with
2. Paste or compose writings, lists, images, screenshots, links, embeds...
3. Size, style, color, and arrange. Toggle the lock to protect or edit content.
4. Repeat Step 1. Again. And again. (And sometimes, just in case).
After several days your BBKB will probably look interesting. After a couple of weeks, you might be amazed at all the things that can happen.
At their most basic, cards are webpages, or pdfs, conversations or notices: A stack of photographs, music players, to go menus, market feeds, favorite videos, or piles of recipes or receipts. The progress in your garden. A floating live weather report? Soon, they'll be a lot more.
Your BBKB can contain many, many cards. Over time, those cards will accumulate, yield, and become memories you can revisit and recall anytime.
How will you use BBKB? Neatly stacked? Or in beautiful, chaotic disarray? What would you like to see?
Use cards to save stuff you care about - on the spot photos, videos, screenshots, snapshots of receipts, links to stuff, a webpage, a podcast or a youtube embed- ideas for your next novella- whatever.
The one goal that began all this was to make a nice enough, quick and dirty writer that can be used anywhere, by anyone, for free. And it's easy: Just put your content in there and make it look how you prefer then use the lock to make sure you dont accidentally change it. You can unlock it anytime if you want to update the content or trash it.
You can print out what you save in a pdf. Soon you can share or export them in other formats. Color them, frame them. There are no page or storage limits in most cases - that's up to you. Be mindful! Zoom in, zoom out: your board knows no bounds! Cards can drag, move, and resize from the tops, corners, and sides (those embeds can too).
Use it everyday in a side tab- those ideas and actions of yours will accumulate. Soon enough, you have stacks of needles you made from all that hay out there! And it's not all so scattered- as much as posted up on your own personal bulletin board knowledge base (aka bbkb)- navigable and able to be recalled in a way that is simple, and maybe familiar, (at least for some of us).
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Like a bulletin board in a cafe, or at the corner store, or like on the light post outside, where people could stick fliers about their show, or how they're looking for their lost cat or are offering violin lessons - whatever it was, they stuck it up there for everyone to notice. That's the BB part. I always wanted to be able to peel away and browse the pasted, stapled layers of crusty paper, and look at past events too, save them, print them, share them- So here it is. That's the KB part.
BBKB = Bulletin Board Knowledge Base!
BBKBs can be local only (static to a particular device) or they can be shared across many devices by groups of one or many users.
BBKB has two (2) flavors: BBKB-local or BBKB-groups
Both are perfect for pasting screen shots or memes or text or links or embeds or uploading images that you want to save and maybe forget about later, but might want to see again later, because reasons, or whatever. Share with yourself or your group or the world. That's one thing it does. Post messages to multiple places, for indefinite display or set rotation- BBKB is open to lots of possibility.
I wanted to build it ever since one night in ~2000ish, before I could even code, while stumbling down the street, marveling at a half-inch thick mess of event fliers stapled to a utility pole, there on the curb as we passed by. I only just started recently putting it together during the pandemic because i wanted such a tool. But also because it seemed time, tech wise. It's always in progress. I hope you like it. I use it everyday, either online or offline, on my phone, tablet, and PC. Especially PC. But yes, phone, too, when I see something on the road I want to investigate at my desk later on. My bbkbs are ever evolving table tops of activity.
This page, https://bbkb.app/me, in particular, is intended to work 100% client side- locally- so once you open it up it should just work, internet or no. The bigger screen the better but it can also be used on tablets, phones and smaller devices. It's meant to be lightweight- a lot of times you won't require a refresh. But yeah, if you do, connect to the internet first. There may be an update or something anyways.
The cards created here are never accessed by any inside or outside server. No info, no stats, no ai... nothing.
BBKB-local (this page) uses your browser's localStorage (indexDB) to store what you post in your cards. It stays there in your localStorage, on the device you're using, until it's deleted or cleared. Go offline and see for yourself. Only if you use the BBKB network version does the server store the stuff you post- but you can always decide at any time what stays local, what gets distributed, and what gets deleted.
I'm not interested in your data. You are. I've always been interested in making it highly available, in or out- it's what I do.
When you trash a card, you delete it There's no recover. It doesn't first ask if you're sure.
When you make a card it's stored on your device. When you delete a card, it's removed from your device.
And delete means delete here. It's gone.
I don't know - maybe unless you restore your data from your own previous backup or something perhaps then-
That said, measure well what data you handle when using BBKB. Browsers can be touchy.
BBKB is built using Firefox and it's been an amazing experience, however. BBKB is tested in Chrome and Safari. Android. Ipad. All to some level of "well, it's close enough for now-"
(the idea being it's about the same no matter what)
As far as your privacy, BBKB-local doesn't count visitors, doesn't share anything and in fact strives to know as little to nothing about you as possible. Ideally this makes it difficult for the bots as well.
Your IP address might be temporarily recorded somewhere, as a visit, in some default logs but BBKB-local (this page) doesn't rely on BBKB cookies. If you find one, get rid of it if you want.
Any third-party cookies you manage to attract would occur from embedded or pasted content from external sources, which, well, may be required, actually. You'll figure it out.
If you get cookies because you copy and paste external content or use an embed from somewhere like soundcloud or facebook or x or twitter or tiktok whatever, then that's them.
Be wary anyways because those things external are not often in their place forever: maybe screenshot those and keep a paired record in BBKB!
It's about doing something oldish, in a newish way.
Perhaps if BBKB has helped you in some way,
Help grow BBKB!
From back when my friend first dared to show me the forests for the trees and all the branches and limbs and leaves within,
to the night of the concept of this project, and where it currently is at this moment- all of it is also because of someone else.
So many I will never know. But I hope you also enjoy and recognize some of the value in their work.
I just tried to bring the best pieces of it together, that I could - to make my own vision real.
The list goes way, way deeper. Thanks and bigups to all who inspired to make it possible.
This page is local-only but you can access and share BBKB online too, privately, or with small or large groups of people on any number of devices- it's up to you.
BBKB-groups has been active privately for some time but it's early access now.
Let me know if you want to try it out. I would greatly appreciate that actually.
Otherwise I'll be putting in the path to access that soon enough. So, keep checking back.