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

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Post by fit2rule »

andrepd wrote: post #187
fit2rule wrote: post #135

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Off-line mode, my data is my data, and I can process the data freely and easily using my own local tools without getting anyone else' CPU involved. And the formatting issue isn't really that big of a deal, if I'm honest. The formatting did its work in the initial contact of the web page - beyond that, to me anyway, its superfluous to the later task of finding the reference again. pdftotext don't care about the format…

>Off-line mode, my data is my data, and I can process the data freely and easily using my own local tools without getting anyone else' CPU involved. Open the page and you will probably realise that unless you want to pay for sync, this extention works offline.

I don't want to pay for sync, because print-to-pdf is my sync, and is free.

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Post by reanimated »

BlackForestBoy wrote: post #163
tsp wrote: post #160

I have been using Pocket [0], Instapaper [1] and Pinboard [2] over the years. I am currently using Pocket and Pinboard in parallel: articles / websites that I want to read later are sent to Pocket (untagged), websites that I might want to get to back later are tagged and sent to Pinboard. While my archive on Pinboard works quite well I am very disappointed by the support. Either the developer does not answer at all o…

Oli here from WorldBrain.io A bit of a timing issue here :) We are about to have a big release with lots of improvements, including an API, performance, UX and bug fixes. Our API will be served via Storex https://medium.com/@WorldBrain/storexhub-an-offline-first-op...

It would be great if we could change color of the highlights. On some pages, especially with dark modes, green doesn't work.

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Post by cilefen »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #183
fit2rule wrote: post #182

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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.

Try checking "Print headers and footers" in the print dialog.

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Post by ben509 »

anonymoushn wrote: post #88
ben509 wrote: post #66

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Grep is not much of an advantage when Mac, Windows and Linux all have as-you-type full-text search of common formats like HTML and PDF.

Can you point me to the as-you-type full-text search on Mac for a directory transitively containing 20,000 pdfs?

Sure, Spotlight has been around for at least a decade; it's the little magnifying glass at the right end of the main menubar. It definitely indexes PDFs with a text layer as well as other document formats; I've been running them through OCR for ages and have 28,000 in my records. You can also install extensions for other formats.

It indexes your whole disk; if there's a limit as to how many files it will index, I've yet to reach it. I checked Apple's developer documentation, and they don't mention one.

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