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Occasioยฎ
Pinboard meets citation manager for shared insights.
51 followers
Pinboard meets citation manager for shared insights.
51 followers
Occasio is your collaborative library of trusted, timeless insights. Distill complex knowledge onto bite-sized index cards and link sources with academic-grade citation rigour. As your library grows, analyse trends and curate endless combinations with zero duplication. Built for research teams and thought leaders who stand for original thinking and have zero tolerance for AI fluff or hallucinated sources.
Occasioยฎ
Hello, hej ๐
I'm Camilla, founder of Occasio Insights.
All my life, Iโve been a collector of words, phrases, and facts that inspire and inform my life and work. From where Iโm sitting, thereโs nothing more satisfying than combining disparate ideas into new narratives or recalling a perfect evidence point to bring home an argument.
But over time I've also lost many of those points. Participating in research groups, think tanks, and roundtables, Iโve been frustrated to discover that the sum of our collective intelligence rarely adds up to be greater than its parts.
Since the advent of LLMs, two new frustrations have joined the mix: 1) Generic summaries that disregard nuance and lack specificity, and 2) Fabricated citations that disrespect context and lack explainability.
๐ฆ๐ผ, I founded Occasio with a mission to safeguard human intelligence in the AI era.
๐ง๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐๐ฒ'๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐: A web app where researchers, strategists, and thinkers can build a shared repository of well-referenced, bite-sized insights.
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐:
๐ก ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐: A "unit of value" extracted from a larger sourceโsuch as a specific perspective, powerful quote, or core idea.
๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ: The formal anchor that gives your insights credibility and traceabilityโranging from published papers to live event notes and internal docs.
๐๏ธ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: The central repository and permanent home for every insight and source you capture, paired with intelligent search and AI trend dashboards.
๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: A thematic workspace to combine insights with zero duplication. Open them up to external collaborators or export them as a downloadable crib sheet.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ผ๐น*:
๐ *๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ! Automatically add meta data from URLs, DOIs, and ISBNs and format them according to IEEE, Harvard, MLA, Chicago, or APA.
๐ค ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฑ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต! Invite unlimited external contributors to collaborate in real time.
๐ก๏ธ ๐๐-๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ! Capture the specific words and nuanced perspectives that generic LLMs miss and build a proprietary, high-quality database to power your internal intelligence systems.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐?
We've got a crowded roadmap with automatic insight extraction, interactive knowledge graphs, voice notes, and a Chrome extension.
Create your library for free today at ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ.๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ.๐ฐ๐ฐ, and let us know: ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ณ๐น๐ผ๐?
Weโd love your feedback, questions, and ideas!
*I know, if you have to say it, it doesn't count. ๐ค
I've been interested in commonplace books in personal life, and tools like Guru and Mintlify for organizational knowledge inside companies, so Occasio is super interesting!
Does the zero-duplication bit dedupe at the insight level or the source level or what?
Occasioยฎ
@tori_seidensteinย
Hi Tori,
Thanks for your interest.
The zero-duplication feature applies when you curate collections. Whether you add an insight or a source to a collection, itโs added as a live mirror rather than a copy. Any updates you make automatically sync everywhere.
This means when you mix, match, or recycle resources across different projects, you still maintain a single source of truth.
Made this way mainly because I was tired of seeing slightly altered customer quotes and project highlights scattered across endless folders and BD docs.
Is that what you had in mind?
Really nice app.
Some of the insight types are hard for me to tell apart โ Thought, Observation, Perspective, Wordcraft.
Reading other people's cards it doesn't matter much, but now that I'm writing my own I hesitate every time.
Would you mind sharing how you'd draw the lines between them?
I think it would help me read other people's insights better too.
Occasioยฎ
@hjbuildsย Hi HJ.
Great question. We've developed a taxonomy that reasonably covers all types of insight without too much overlap.
In brief:
Observation = Objective, personal view based on experience.
Perspective = Subjective, personal view based on experience.
Wordcraft = Creative writing, not necessarily expressing the view of the author.
Thought = Emerging personal view, not necessarily grounded in experience.
And so on.
Depending on what you use your knowledge base for, this might be useful for assembling a variety of insights on a topic, or making sure only e.g. facts and observations are prioritised when writing a white paper.
In the first instance, the Occasio AI suggests an appropriate category for your insight. This can be overwritten, which will eventually help with better suggestions.
We could definitely add a tool tip in the app! We will! Thanks for the prompt :)
@camilla_s_andersenย That's much clearer, thank you.
"Objective vs subjective, both grounded in experience" settles it in one line โ these were exactly the ones I kept getting stuck on.
And tooltips would remove the hesitation entirely. Nice to see a question turn into a fix that quickly.
Occasioยฎ
It's just gone 12 PM in London and we're officially out of the blind voting window.
We're absolutely thrilled with our #14 rank and 75 votes so far ๐ป
Thank you for connecting with our launch.
We hope your votes will help other Product Hunters find value in what we've built.
We're here to answer your questions and listen to suggestions.
With love,
Camilla, Jason, and Stephen