Why should I use this instead of Zotero?
WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
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#13I keep wanting to use this because I love the idea, but the implementation last time I tried didn't seem to jive with me. I navigate the web with Tridactyl, and I think some of the keybindings were interfering - which would be my fault.
With that being said - I love the idea, and will continue to check every so often on the status of the project :)
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#14The site is weirdly ambiguous about this but: I am assuming by "offline-first" they mean that the "full-text history capture" never leaves my device, right? Or does it get synced optionally? Or only synced to other devices I have? It's baffling to me that they put "privacy-centric" front and center and then do not in any way explain what that actually means.
Yep, the sync is optional (and the only thing they take money for, which makes sense)
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#15The site is weirdly ambiguous about this but: I am assuming by "offline-first" they mean that the "full-text history capture" never leaves my device, right? Or does it get synced optionally? Or only synced to other devices I have? It's baffling to me that they put "privacy-centric" front and center and then do not in any way explain what that actually means.
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#16Something I noticed when I use "Read Later" style applications to save pages is that I will, most of the time, forget about how I arrived at a certain page. This is important to me because it gives me the context to decide a perspective on the page. If I was able to save pages while also knowing where I found them and maybe make a comment about why I found it interesting, then I would be able to organize my knowledge…
I'm working on a tool which can do exactly this (and it's only one of the features!): https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme
Here's a link demonstrating the usecase you want (40 seconds video): https://karlicoss.github.io/promnesia-demos/how_did_i_get_he...
I discovered Worldbrain Memex way into the development (unfortunately), but in the near future I will try to evaluate to which extent it's possible to mutually benefit, i.e. base Promnesia extension & backend on Worldbrain's, or contribute some of Promnesia's features to them (maybe even merge completely?)
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#17What is WorldBrain?
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#18This is still not as powerful as my one, simple trick to handle all bookmarks, ever: Print to PDF.
I've been doing it since last century, and I have 10's of thousands of PDF's of every single web page I've ever found interesting, sitting right there in a directory on my computer. Its indexable, searchable, grok'able, available off-line, allows me to harvest data without fuss, and gives me access to anything I can remember about the article, almost instantaneously.
$ ls -l ~/PDFArchive/ | grep -i "bookmark" | grep -i "manage" | wc -l
.. nothing beats print-to-PDF. Its just awesome.
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#19I guess this possibly competes with pocket/wallaby/similar?
I see mozilla as a contributor.
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#20This is still not as powerful as my one, simple trick to handle all bookmarks, ever: Print to PDF. I've been doing it since last century, and I have 10's of thousands of PDF's of every single web page I've ever found interesting, sitting right there in a directory on my computer. Its indexable, searchable, grok'able, available off-line, allows me to harvest data without fuss, and gives me access to anything I can rem…
Kudos - I'll be practicing this later today :)