Thoughts on social media for notes and study discussion? Would you use it?

2 points by avacacode ↗ HN
This will be a notes publishing social network to see the inner thoughts of individuals and spark collaborative discussion. You can search notes on a topic and level / at a certain organization. You can also form study groups.

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I'm working on a new project, tangentially related.

1. I think there is a desire to be better informed and improve discourse (quality/accuracy) on social media

2. How is the project same/different from Wikipedia? We already have a social knowledge base as a society

3. Why another social network vs existing ones? It's really, really, really hard to bootstrap a social network user base

Some interesting thoughts:

1. A good amount of attention of a student is already configured, allotted and divided on Social Media (Most of which is entertainment). 2. Handwritten notes pose as one of the most effective tools for learning (as opposed to typed/textbooks/lectures). Create a repository for that. 3. For example an avid notes-taker visits the website and post his/her notes. What's in it for the student? Could there be some way to incentivize that? 4. How would you connect students with related interests? Form a way of recommending and relating them, to form study groups as compared to manually finding and forming them. 5. Most importantly, it has to be made sure the discussions revolve around the objective of the platform. Maybe use LLMs for reminding students who deviate from their objective in chat? (Don't save the personal conversations but predictions could be made)