For G-d's sake, please remove the confirmation request popping up every time I click to remove an entry. It drives me mad!
Also please add full (not change-set) export.
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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Is it still buggy? I had a similar experience, but it looks and feels a lot smoother and faster now.
It's way better now but still some way to go! Kind of a bummer that this trended one week too early - next week we'll publish a big release with performance, UX and stability improvements.
That great to know! Visible performance and stability issues were the only things that hindering me from continue using memex, I just installed it and so far so good! Can't wait to see next week.
Re: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
#203A feature I miss from an old, discarded read later service was browser search bar integration.
It was very convenient searching from one place across multiple locations.
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#204I have been using Memex for more than a year now. Here are the things that really annoy me - occasional freezing and sudden disappearance of your bookmarks - no real way to programmatically access your Memex database. I know they have released the storage backend, but the lack of helpful documentation is a deal-breaker. - lack of collaborative annotation (the way Hypothesis does) - only few results in search results!
the data is just in the folder u select when u choose local hard drive as backup location.
and the format is quite friendly for programmatically accessing.
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#205This 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…
And I've been saving them as epub for the last 7.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
PDF gives me an off-line readable version of the website, and is pretty compatible with pdftotext as a pipeline tool... I'm not sure that formatting is such a huge issue - I'm yet to find a web page I can't extract some meaningful info from, later on ..
an off-line readable version of the website As does 'Save as: Web Archive' in Safari or, if you tell it to store offline, 'Add to Reading List'. In Chrome you can save pages to .mht. All of these are single-keystroke, better ways to locally archive a web page.
You do say that, but you don't give an example with terminal commands, which fails to win me over your prescribed method to export to mht or web archive.
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#207This 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 really hate this kind of response. No, your thing is not strictly better. It's cool, it might be better for you and many others, but it doesn't even do the same thing (archive all visited pages)!
I really hate this kind of whinging response.
This archives every page I'm ever interested in, just fine. Links are preserved just fine, all the data that got me interested in the web page in the first place are just there on my disk, easily accessible any time of day without requiring any further accounts.
It is better since it doesn't require any involvement of a third party, is always accessible to me no matter the state of the Internet, and gives me absolute control over all of the data, which I can mine using whatever toolset I want. In fact, I get more data out of this method than the service described in the article.
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#208This 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…
> Yeah, my computer is fast enough that I can just do "find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext {} \; | grep -i someSearchTerm" and come back later. You may be interested in my ripgrep-all [1] tool, it should allow you to search those tens of thousands of PDFs in under a second (with hot cache) [1] https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-ta...
Thanks for that - yeah, silversearch-ag also does a pretty good job.. Its really not a big deal to search so many docs these days, either ..
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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 mutu…
Big shoutout to karlicoss for doing amazing things in the Personal Knowledge Management space. Also, it would be great to see a Memex-to-Org tool from you.
Thanks!
What do you mean by memex-to-org?
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Interesting. For me, its right there on the bottom-left of the footer, always. /tmpᐅ pdftotext Add\ Comment\ -\ Hacker\ News.pdf - |grep http https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23232588&goto=threads%...
Weird. It's not in there when I store it.
Lets compare versions just so I know this feature isn't going away any time soon.
Safari 13.1 here, MacOS 10.14.6...