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I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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How about an import feature from google web history. Doesn't it also index the pages you visit for searching? It has a bookmarklet and can crawl all of your web history if you tell it to

I think it does, but we're sort of against indexing everything, because then we'd just turn into Google search... It's much easier to locate something when you have only three or four documents of that type rather than a hundred...

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on. For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements? Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYT…

Hello, and thanks for your feedback! We're sorry to be less exciting, but we do indeed only index the historified sites, otherwise the noise would be too much for historious to be of any usefulness. Luckily the cost of bookmarking a page is really low (just one click), so you can do it as often as you like! The extension is open source, you can download and run it yourself if you don't trust the packaged one: http://…

I actually tried indexing every page I browsed to - and you're right, it was too much. http://hystry.com

The indexing happened on the server, and the extension only sent URLs, not params or cookies. So pages needing login wouldn't be compromised.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on. For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements? Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYT…

>That said, if you're indexing EVERYTHING I browse to, I think this is actually a really killer app.

Google chrome has full text search over your history. And yes, I love it.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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This is an idea I have wanted to implement myself for a long time. I was very sad that Google Bookmarks doesn't provide full page search and still requires me to think up and maintain my own hierarchy of tags/labels/whatever. Nice work, I'll definitely support you.

My suggestion is that you start looking into ways to group and organize people's bookmarks automatically. You could start with some simple things, but I'm very curious to see how more advanced methods would work out.

My biggest feature request: let me import my google bookmarks quickly and easily.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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This is an idea I have wanted to implement myself for a long time. I was very sad that Google Bookmarks doesn't provide full page search and still requires me to think up and maintain my own hierarchy of tags/labels/whatever. Nice work, I'll definitely support you. My suggestion is that you start looking into ways to group and organize people's bookmarks automatically. You could start with some simple things, but I'm…

Thank you, we're glad you like our product! We have a few people in our team (including me) who come from a machine learning background, so we will definitely experiment with some clustering algorithms to see if we can organise the bookmarks automatically.

You can import your Google bookmarks easily by uploading your bookmarks.html from Google directly on our "historify site" page. However, this is currently disabled for performance reasons, but we will soon (i.e. in the next few days) re-enable it for the users' convenience. Please follow our Twitter feed to be informed on the status of this, and thank you again for your preference!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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First of all, thanks very much for your feedback! To address your points, there are no plans for your bookmarks to be public, or have an option to show a page with them, either. The nature of the site doesn't lend itself to public bookmarks at all, as there is no list of bookmarks to publicise in the first place. To make it public we would have to add a search box for people to search in your bookmarks, which may or…

Hi. First of all well done in getting something up and running. I think I'm missing the point here. Whats the difference wwhen compared to delicious? I'm not being rude I'm really interested

Thanks, the difference is that historious searches inside the pages rather than just the titles. So, if there was a page talking about fish called "Sea creatures", you could search for "fish" and historious would find that bookmark.
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