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The landing page emphasizes the word "focussed", with double S's, which didn't look right to me. Apparently both "focused" and "focussed" are acceptable, with the single S version "focused" being highly preferred [0]. [0] http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-focussed-o...
One of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox is that Firefox seems to already be doing this. At least it searches all parts of the URL and the title, so I'm 99% successful at getting the right URL in the awesomebar when I'm looking for something. Chrome is just horrible when it comes to this, and I can never get back to previous pages when searching via the addressbar.
On launch this was one of our banner features in Chrome -- full text search over your browsing history. I wrote some of the code. I believe we (Google's Chrome team) implemented (and contributed back) SQLite's full text search support exactly to make this feature. I don't know why it was removed (after my time) but I do know it had a lot of problems. 1) Most users were unaware of the feature, and it's hard to find a…
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This product appears to index your bookmarks, did you see that?
Yup. I’ve read about the product but haven’t tried it. I’ll likely check it out. My issue with these services is (and maybe this one is different) is that I have to run 3rd party software and extensions and I never know how long these companies/products will stay around.
Yeah as mentioned the tool allows you to do bookmark full-text search. It's open-source, so it will stay no matter what. We build for resilience and for us as the WorldBrain.io company not needing to stick around in order for the service to survive. We see ourselves as the stewards of this tool, not the sole benefactor or proprietor.
Hope it will be helpful to you :)
Nice! I hacked something together to do this 12-odd years ago. I had something to save the pages I visit to folder, and then a desktop search tool dtSearch that I bought to index them. It was invaluable when I really needed it, but too awkward to be really useful. Often it ended up being easier to find the page again with Google if I remembered something unique about it. This extension looks like it could finally mak…
Oli here, from the team developing Memex. Memex is open-source, so the browser extension will always stay free to use.
What we will charge for are some of the services that require us to host stuff. Like backups, multi-device syncing, API calls etc. We will run it as a completely modular pricing model, where you can upgrade on only those features you need. We don't like those usual 3 tier model, where you have to upgrade to the 'monster mega plan' in order to just get one feature :) But you can also completely self-host that, as we will make the server software open-source as well.
Hope Memex can be useful to you. We are running a crowdfund to support its development, where we offer some good discount on the future features in return: worldbrain.io/pricing
Let me know if I can be of more help.
"Search every word of every website you visited" That will most likely return a lot of hits for sites I didn't like and would like to forget about.
But a normal web search already has this trait, which is presumably how you ended up on the garbage site in the first place. If you eventually found your result, a more narrow search can help you re-find it a few months down the road.
Yeah indeed, just full-text search can let you end up with a lot of garbage. This is why it is so important, that you can search for various other "vague memories" to narrow down your search.
What you often remember about an article is stuff like: Did I bookmark it, when did I visit it, did I like/share/cite it on social media You can already filter by time, tags, domains, bookmarks, and soon also if you liked/shared or even seen it in your newsfeed, or on a friends wall, on Twitter and Facebook.
We gradually expand it so you can search with as much of your associative memories as possible.
I nice idea, but an open source browser plugin with all local storage would fit my needs better. I prototyped something roughly like this several years ago. I wrote a simple Firefox plugin that communicated with a locally running server written in Closure with a Clojurescript web app for browsing that used the same server backend. I stopped working on the because services like Evernote do a better job, at the loss of…
We custom built a search technology on IndexedDB and Dexie.js, which is capable of indexing around 5 years of your personal web-research locally in the browser.
Nice, now you just need to enable a feature to search anyone else's browsing history
Good news: that's the plan! worldbrain.io/vision_deck
One of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox is that Firefox seems to already be doing this. At least it searches all parts of the URL and the title, so I'm 99% successful at getting the right URL in the awesomebar when I'm looking for something. Chrome is just horrible when it comes to this, and I can never get back to previous pages when searching via the addressbar.
Chrome does this deliberately because they want you to do another google search instead of looking at your history.
This seems a very interesting project. I'll see how this works in practice. It starts to get icky when you notice the devs have a business plan to outsource the indexing to the cloud, but there's a commitment to keep the servers parts open source too, so that you can self host.
Yeah indeed, having stuff in the cloud is not ideal when it comes to privacy and centralisation.
One of our core values is privacy and data ownership. So we do our best to make our business not dependent on (analysing and selling) your data, and instead provide you with service value you're willing to pay for. We are built with interoperability in mind, that will allow you to switch providers of Memex and Memex Cloud without frictions, in case there are breaches of trust, or simply better service.
We follow these values by currently building for offline first usage, where your data is locally indexed and searchable primarily. With our search technology you'll be able to get up to 5 years of your research done in the browser.
For the cloud part, it is unfortunately not yet possible to do performant search on encrypted data, otherwise it would not be such a big issue to have your index in the cloud. Equally unfortunate is that it comes with a lot of drawbacks to replicate all your data on all nodes, as opposed to have a central point to query. Especially when we are looking at phone usages. There it is really not practical, so there is a need to have some sort of cloud - UX is still very important. Most people can't be bothered with the drawbacks of decentralised and distributed systems (yet). We hope to get that switch in multiple smaller steps that guide (non-technical) users through a smooth transition to a Memex system that is as distributed as possible. (Check out Dat https://datproject.org/, a technology we likely use to make that first step possible)
And as you already noted, this stuff will be self-hostable. We see ourselves as a service provider first and want to serve people who can't/don't want to run their own server. A bit like the Wordpress model.
You can read more about our approaches to running this business in our vision post: worldbrain.io/vision