Micah Alex

Learn and look up

• Skill Atlas

  Skill trees for real domains, drawn as a game's skill board. Pick a domain and walk its main quest.

• Awesome Digital History: South Asia

  A curated list of South Asian digital archives, collections and histories of the digital.

• DataViz for Indian Cities

  Urban mobility data for Pimpri-Chinchwad: vehicles, buses, traffic and road safety from 2000 to 2025.

• Open Monosyllabic

  An explorer for one-syllable words that end in a vowel. Pick a sound shape such as /ma/ and see every language that has it.

• PIB Parallel

  The Government of India's press releases as parallel text: English beside each official translation, by sentence. One month is a dataset on Hugging Face.

• Drum Rudiments Trainer

  All 40 drum rudiments on one practice pad: 3D hands, notation and a note lane, from 10 bpm up. Play along and the microphone scores you.

Make and annotate

• Archie

  Annotate and publish your small archive. A multimedia exhibit platform that publishes as a static site.

• Atlasdraw

  Draw on a map. An Excalidraw fork over MapLibre GL, with each shape anchored to a place.

• Commonplace

  A notebook for the internet. Browse any public Are.na channel as a draggable notebook, fully static.

• Better Writer

  You write. It asks you one question about what you just wrote, and never touches your words.

• Markdown Translator

  Translate Markdown between English and twenty Indian languages with a model on your own computer. Headings, links and code stay where they were.

• Digsite

  A group sorts a large pile of pictures together: every picture on one shared map, and sheets where people annotate and connect a few.

• Elicit

  An interviewer on your own machine. It asks, you answer, and your answers become a wiki of what you think. The AI never writes.

• Troparcel

  Work on one Tropy collection with other researchers. Annotations sync; the photos stay on each computer.

• Video.js Annotation

  Comment on moments and ranges of a video, and draw on the frame. A Video.js plugin with W3C Web Annotation support.

Obsidian plugins

• Keep Writing

  A question waits in your daily note. New questions come from writing you already did, and each answer links to what started it.

• Writing Better

  An editor's notes on your paragraphs: what a reader notices, and one edit to try. It never rewrites your prose.

• Image Annotation

  Mark regions on an image, give them captions, and attach them to notes.

• Image Graph

  Every image in your vault on one canvas. Connect images and their regions, and explore outward from any one.

• Qualitative Query

  Ask your vault a question. Saved questions find the passages that answer it, and block embeds connect them.

• Relay, self-hosted

  Relay, the multiplayer plugin for Obsidian, bundled with its backend so that you can run all of it on your own server.