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WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

rpdillon wrote: post #114
ropeladder wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SingleFile is a really great extension, but I wanted something a bit more pared down that I could easily use on both mobile and desktop and sync between them using Syncthing. So I'm trying to copy some of SingleFile's UI and graft it on to Markdown-Clipper.[1] And also add the ability to save the images that get picked up by Readability (which Markdown-Clipper uses). [1] https://github.com/enrico-kaack/markdown-clipp…

FWIW, I use SingleFile on mobile and sync with NextCloud. Works beautifully.

How do you use singlefile on mobile? Android or iOS? Is there some sort of userscript or browser extension on mobile?

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Post by ropeladder »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #121
rpdillon wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I use SingleFile on mobile and sync with NextCloud. Works beautifully.

How do you use singlefile on mobile? Android or iOS? Is there some sort of userscript or browser extension on mobile?

It works in Firefox for Android.

Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by Semaphor »

methou wrote: post #123

I remember using this software last time, it is wayyyy~ too buggy, it stalls, crashes, and slows down the browser. Also that import feature is actually crawling the site, beware if you are using a proxy or something with rate limit.

Is it still buggy? I had a similar experience, but it looks and feels a lot smoother and faster now.

Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by sneak »

When did it become acceptable to embed networked surveillance like Sentry into cryptographic tools? To me, that entirely defeats the purpose of end to end encryption.

Whether the key is generated on the server and provided to you, or generated on the client and potentially uploaded to the server due to embedded defect surveillance: that's simply not end to end encryption.

Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by nl »

fit2rule wrote: post #41
ramraj07 wrote: post #39

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This is amazingly simple, but what about in mobile? There's pdf printing here too but it's not as simple as command P! Any ideas?

If I need to save a page I've read on mobile, I mail myself the link to my desktop and print it there, where the PDF Archive lives. Its muscle memory at this point. Still, would be nice if the Browser vendors would cotton on to how powerful this is, and make the whole thing a bit more seamless for the mobile/desktop bridge, or just make Print-to-PDF work more smoothly for this case on mobile. Either way, I also have…

You can do this from mobile (on Android, maybe Chrome on iOS?)

Go Share...-> Chrome (Print) --> (Brings up "Save to PDF" (!!)) --> Save to Drive (and then sync this drive to your computer).

You could also save to Dropbox or whatever other syncing service you choose.

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Post by donmcronald »

nikisweeting wrote: post #105
rakoo wrote: post #87

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Maybe Archivebox ( https://archivebox.io/ ) can suit your needs ? Archiving is what it does, but there's nothing built-in for searching

The ArchiveBox wiki also has a list of many similar projects even if you don't even up using ArchiveBox itself: https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...

I read through all of those a few days ago actually. It's a really awesome list. Thanks for publishing it.

ArchiveBox 0.4 will probably be the first thing that has a chance of replacing my existing solution.

Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by hombre_fatal »

flower-giraffe wrote: post #68

This is an interesting perhaps meta-relevant topic for HN. How many of us bookmark or otherwise record interesting posts from here and elsewhere? How many of us ever refer that accumulated digital memory? I have about 7,000 links with notes accumulated over the last few decades. I’ve read a lot of them, but the hard to acknowledge reality is that even with a refined workflow, recording my links in a near perfect taxo…

I don't think I've ever went back to look at any of my offline bookmarks I've been collecting over 10 years. I have this fantasy that one day we'll have electricity but no internet for a while and I'll be glad I saved all of my bookmarks for offline use. But it's really just a fantasy.

Frankly, I've realized offline bookmarking just feels good and lets me close the tab. I would wager this is most people even if they don't yet realize it.

Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

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Post by bharani_m »

fit2rule wrote: post #18

This 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…

I am also a big fan of Print to PDF. I've actually built a simple bookmarking service [0] that does just this.

EmailThis extracts meaningful content from web pages and sends it to your email inbox. You can also tell it to save a PDF copy of each page, in which case the PDF is sent as an attachment.

Print-to-Pdf is done using Headless Chrome (so it works exactly like doing a Ctrl-P).

I find that the Print to PDF works best because it gives you a copy of the web page even if the original one disappears. Also, none of the content extraction services (mine included) work in 100% of the cases. Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Let me know what you guys think.

[0] https://www.emailthis.me

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