Why would I switch to Fetch if I'm perfectly fine with using the default Google Chrome bookmark bar?
Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
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#22Why would I switch to Fetch if I'm perfectly fine with using the default Google Chrome bookmark bar?
If you like using the default google bookmarks then probably will love using fetch. There are so many instances during which we forget to bookmark something and managing bookmarks is a nightmare in itself. Fetch streamlines all and makes finding links a breeze.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#23Privacy concerns aside, it seems like a really useful service. How do you handle page versioning? Do you take a new snapshot every time I visit - and do you keep the most recent version or can I look at/search through previous versions? Ranking pages by how much time you spend on them seems great from a productivity standpoint. From a search standpoint, often the pages I want to go back and find ex post facto are the…
Thanks for the kudos cooperadymas.
We take a snapshot every time you visit the page. We don't version the page yet. Do you have a specific use case for a feature like that?
There's a very strong correlation between time spent and usefulness of the article. We index all articles, even the ones you spend less time on, so when you search, a few page scrolls get you to the link you need. That said, time spent is a heuristic, its useful in a lot of cases, but not all, we'll have to see.
"Proprietary algorithms", we have a patent pending on how we sort and filter data
We'll think of a catchphrase around ""Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before"
Hope you enjoy using the extension. You can send us feedback from the plugin directly, or mail us at dev@tryheld.com
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#24what's the difference between this service and the one from Google (Chrome) described here? https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=swaa&hl=...
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#25I've wanted something like this a long time, but cloud is a deal breaker for me.
Anyone know of a similar local effort? (I spent 98% of my time on my own two machines anyway...)
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#26what's the difference between this service and the one from Google (Chrome) described here? https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=swaa&hl=...
Fetch is focused on turning your browsing history into a searchable knowledge base. Fetch doesn't just index links, it indexes content as well, and it ranks them by time spent, which is very handy to find the links you need quickly.Coming soon you will be able to sign in with the same acc into mozilla and safari as well, your history across browsers will be clubbed together making it all the more valuable.
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#27I've wanted this feature for a long time. But you're giving away gives me zero confidence that you'll be around in a year.
Also something I've learned building a sass business: you need customer feedback. People who pay you money are properly motivated to give you the feedback you need.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#28I've wanted this feature for a long time. But you're giving away gives me zero confidence that you'll be around in a year. Also something I've learned building a sass business: you need customer feedback. People who pay you money are properly motivated to give you the feedback you need.
We will be launching paid plans soon. If you like it so much please take it for a spin and mail me your thoughts to meat dev@tryheld.com. We use it internally and find it useful and wont be shutting down fully even in the worst case scenario,we may trim some features that is as far as we would go.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#29I've been trying to design something along these lines now that Firefox aggressively prunes history with no user override ( it keeps barely five days worth on my laptop ).
However the main challenge is that much of the web is now SSL, so a light caching proxy isn't feasible unless it does MiTM which I don't want.
My current idea is to log DNS lookups but that doesn't, of course, provide page content data.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#30I've been trying to design something along these lines now that Firefox aggressively prunes history with no user override ( it keeps barely five days worth on my laptop ). However the main challenge is that much of the web is now SSL, so a light caching proxy isn't feasible unless it does MiTM which I don't want. My current idea is to log DNS lookups but that doesn't, of course, provide page content data.
The Fetch backend works pretty much like a crawler, what Google sees, it sees...private content is not indexed, e.g. your gmail mails, but the titles are indexed so there is still some usefulness in the search. We may add functionality for the user to sign in to these services so we can index them. E.g. the user may add his google account ao we can index mails etc. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.