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How long until this is a feature baked into a mainstream web browser? Archive, prefetch, cache, all variants on a theme. History, bookmarks, local search engine, all the same.
How long until this is a feature baked into a mainstream web browser? Archive, prefetch, cache, all variants on a theme. History, bookmarks, local search engine, all the same.
I often wish that I could do a full text search of every page I've already visited.
It makes a web archive from everything you browse, and lately I've been working on the full text search
It seems like a lot of people in this thread have an interest in retaining a "replayable timeline" of their own browsing/reading history.
There's probably enough support here to gather a few contributors for an open source project.
This would be a nice thing to be able to run on a Synology NAS or other kind of device that typically has terabytes of storage.
I feel like a simple automatic capture of timestamp + url + screenshot would already be very useful. This gives you a visual memory of the things you've seen on the web. I've wanted to develop this for a while, as a browser plugin. Being able to skim the past month or two click around the thumbnails would already be amazing. I've wanted to do that many times before to check if my memory was correct, or if a page chan…
> screenshot Wouldn't it be more useful and take less space to use SignleFile?
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why go from text to image and back to text? seems wasteful and error prone...
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why go from text to image and back to text? seems wasteful and error prone...
It's a hard problem to figure out what's readable text on a page, and what isn't. Even Google has a hard time figuring that out. OCR works very well with screenshots, and is purely computation time. But the real reason is generally just having timestamps, urls, and screenshots is good enough. I usually remember about when it was, and some words in the url, and don't need the heavyweight text search setup.
How long until this is a feature baked into a mainstream web browser? Archive, prefetch, cache, all variants on a theme. History, bookmarks, local search engine, all the same.
I often wish that I could do a full text search of every page I've already visited.
I feel like a simple automatic capture of timestamp + url + screenshot would already be very useful. This gives you a visual memory of the things you've seen on the web. I've wanted to develop this for a while, as a browser plugin. Being able to skim the past month or two click around the thumbnails would already be amazing. I've wanted to do that many times before to check if my memory was correct, or if a page chan…
A few years ago, in an attempt to increase productivity, I used a screen recorder that took a screenshot every 10 seconds and played it back at the end of every day. So I had a timelapse of how I was spending my time -- mostly online. It was very enlightening. The most efficient format to store a sequence of screenshots in is video, because most of them will have heavily overlapping data.