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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 fao_ »

valbaca wrote: post #81

I've been using Pocket for free since 2011: getpocket.com It's not great or perfect but it's good enough for "to read later" and keeping a running "grimoire" I've tried other methods: chrome bookmarks, evernote, plain-text, etc but nothing provides: 1. Ubiquity with just one login With Pocket, everywhere I browse I can add to pocket, including at work. I don't want to ever use my Google login at work b/c I don't want…

> Has tags.

You could build this into the command script that's currently the top post, I wrote a program for universal file-system supported tags: https://finnoleary.net/koios-tutorial.html

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

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Post by StavrosK »

donmcronald wrote: post #42
fudged71 wrote: post #2

I'm excited for this resurgence of archiving, searching, highlighting, bookmarking, note-taking, etc

I want a self-hosted version of something like this. I currently use historio.us, which is one of the only services I pay for, but I'd much rather have a good self hosted option. I've been looking for years.

Hey, I made historious! I'm glad you like it.

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Post by rpdillon »

ropeladder wrote: post #80
jannes wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could try the awesome SingleFile extension: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile It might be a good compromise between PDF and plain text. It's pretty nice because it essentially serialises a snapshot of the current DOM tree, so it works with all kinds of JS-generated pages. The files should be relatively grep-able, because it's normal HTML. Of course, you might want to strip HTML tags for more sophistica…

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.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

carapace wrote: post #47

I tried this for a couple of months but the search results were disappointing. I think something like "Stealth" ( https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth ) will prove to be a better strategy.

Hmm, how could the results have been disappointing? It just searches for text, how bad can it be?

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

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Post by stavros »

ropable wrote: post #92
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 have a couple thousand bookmarks in Google Bookmarks, all meticulously tagged to aid categorisation. A while ago, I came to the realisation that I never ever actually went back and referred to any them. I no longer accumulate these bookmarks but I still regard them fondly, like a well-organised bookshelf of reference material that I enjoy keeping around without ever planning to use.

I have an idea for a todo list app that will basically fade your todo items away and delete them after a month if you don't do them. It's half app, half art project about the lies we tell ourselves that we'll complete our todos "some other time" just so we don't feel like slackers.

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Post by nishparadox »

wazoox wrote: post #60
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 discovered Zotero for this use. I don't have any use of its bibliographical abilities, but it stores web pages and PDF articles fine, and is searchable, etc.

True Zotero is a neat tool, especially for files and web pages. I've been using it to read research papers mostly.

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

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Post by nishparadox »

I had used this for some time in the past (on and off), periodically. One caveat I found was it was taking a huge toll on my browser (often, I felt the lags). Not sure if that's the problem now or not.

Eventually, I ended up not using it and started using other tools (specific tools for specific tasks).

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

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Post by saralily »

anotheryou wrote: post #4
kstrauser wrote: post #3

My first impression was "oh, another Pinboard competitor" (which historically don't fare well). What's the elevator pitch for why I should use Memex instead of that?

Full-text search across everything you have ever seen (not just bookmarked).

That doesn't seem like a feature.
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