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I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by primemod3 »

akkartik wrote: post #69
primemod3 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I created a Firefox Addon and website for it last year that did everything you just wrote about, but I've since closed the project down. Let me know if you or anyone is interested in resurrecting it.

I'd like to hear more. Is it open source?

It's not open source. The Firefox Addon captured a visual snapshot and the entire page contents of every non-https page you visited, and stored it to an online database. The website allowed you to search your history, and results were based on number of visits to a page, length of time spent on page, number of times that page was selected as a search result, whether the page was actually bookmarked, etc. It was a very useful tool, but unfortunately the database grew large very fast. I tried to implement a subscription feature to offset server costs, but I had zero subscribers.

The code is all C#/MSSQL/JavaScript/XUL. If anyone's still interested gmail me at my username, and sorry for the off-topic posts!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by tzury »

tzury wrote: post #85
tzury wrote: post #84

i'll give it a try, though let me give you an advice which reflect my problem with delicious. I've used delicious, ever since it was a perl script running on a single server by Joshua. Days went by, delicious went through it revolution/evolution cycles and stationed where it is right now. However, as a facebook and twitter user, I want to have all my links and re-tweets save automatically in my bookmark service. That…

tried it out - strange results. I "historified" this site - HN. Then searched for it in terms of "Hacker News" and got No documents matched your search. To add more documents to your history, just install the historio.us bookmarklet! http://historio.us/search/?q=hacker+news&search=Search

update: Now it works (4 hours later...)

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

nicpottier wrote: post #88

1) it doesn't seem to be working, or at least your 'indexer' is so far behind that I can't tell if its working. At least change it so that when I search for ' ' I see the things that I added and are queued to be indexed. 2) That whole search for ' ' thing is pretty lame.. put a link to see 'all' 3) Good on you to make a chrome plugin, but I find it unintuitive. Clicking on it to bookmark, great, but how do I get to y…

Hello and thanks for your feedback. Let me reply:

1) Yes, the indexer has been lagging a bit behing :/ The search engine is just so slow, we'll replace it right away.

2) I guess a simple link wouldn't hurt, we'll look into placing it on the page.

3) That is true, we can have the extension automatically add historious as a search provider when you install it, which would solve both problems.

Thanks again!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

tzury wrote: post #85
tzury wrote: post #84

i'll give it a try, though let me give you an advice which reflect my problem with delicious. I've used delicious, ever since it was a perl script running on a single server by Joshua. Days went by, delicious went through it revolution/evolution cycles and stationed where it is right now. However, as a facebook and twitter user, I want to have all my links and re-tweets save automatically in my bookmark service. That…

tried it out - strange results. I "historified" this site - HN. Then searched for it in terms of "Hacker News" and got No documents matched your search. To add more documents to your history, just install the historio.us bookmarklet! http://historio.us/search/?q=hacker+news&search=Search

Hello, we're sorry about that issue; we're working to fix it ASAP. For more details, please see this blog post:

http://blog.historio.us/performance-problems-and-lessons-in-...

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

d0m wrote: post #89

I like the idea and I was searching as simple as that since a long time. Here are some suggestions to improve it: First, it didn't work for me.. I bookmark hacker news with the chrome extension and I still see the wheel turning.. and even if I search for all site I bookmarked, I don't see hacker news. Second, is it really necessary to create an account and check with email, etc. maybe histio.us/d0m could create autom…

Thanks for your feedback!

The Chrome extension has some problems, sadly, but we can't reproduce the issue and they are not consistent at all (e.g. some users found that reinstalling the extension makes them go away). We have no idea why it's behaving that way, sadly :(

Email confirmation not really that necessary, and I agree that it's an unnecessary burden. We will look into removing the email verification (but an account is necessary as you need to be assigned an API key)...

We're adding historious as a search provider in the extension now!

We believe that we should make a fun product first and monetize it later (it's the wrong way around, I know, but we like it)!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

biafra wrote: post #81

It's really nice! Three suggestions: 1. Add a snippet with the search terms highlighted 2. Show the date bookmarked in the result list and (if possible) the date of the last update. 3. Document the query language for extended queries Two questions: 1. Do you reindex bookmarks after some time? 2. What indexing engine and platform do you use? (lucene/java?) One remark: 1. The Chrome extension is unable to bookmark some…

Thanks for the suggestions!

1) That is planned and will be added soon, it is a very good idea.

2) I have no idea why we don't do this already, we'll add it straight away!

3) We will, but right now we will be changing backends, so we will document the new one (probably Sphinx with EXTENDED2).

We don't reindex documents, as they are cached and never change (when you bookmark something, the bookmarklet sends the source to the server, which is how we can bypass registrations and paywalls). Plus, you need the document to be as you remember it.

We currently use Whoosh with Python, but it turns out to be excruciatingly slow. We will change to either Sphinx or Solr.

We don't know why the extension does that :( We can't reproduce it on any of our computers, but many users seem to have the problem :/

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by zizee »

This sounds really cool, I have just signed up. That said, my NoScript firefox plugin gets in the way of the bookmarklet complaining about cross site scripting. I had a quick go at putting in a exception regex, but no dice. Anyway, I thought you might like to know that noscript could trip your users up.

I don't have time right to work out why it's not working, so hopefully I'll get to try out your service a bit later.

Good luck!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by ay »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #37

I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on. For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements? Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYT…

You can do full-text search of your history in chrome.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by alttab »

KevinMS wrote: post #83

We came out with something just like this a little while ago http://wheatt.com/ , but nobody here seemed to care. Although instead if emphasizing text search, which I didn't find that useful in the beta testing, we focues on combinations of tags, dates, domains, including terms like "today" and "month", but there is still full page text search, which can be used in combination with those other search terms. Maybe its…

To say nothing about the implementation or usefulness of either, I'd say the "historious" branding and landing page makes it much clearer what the experience would be.

The different in response could easily be the marketing? Cool idea either way - both of them.

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