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wouldn't OneTab extension be a better solution. I see PageDash as a personal Internet Archive/Wayback Machine

by vpvp 9y ago

abainbridge 9y ago
Possibly yes for the problem as I described it. But really what I want is to mark pages that I thought were interesting and _might_ want to see again at some point in my life. Maybe that will be in two years. My approach of leaving a load of tabs open for a few weeks catches many of the cases of pages I want to re-read, but is obviously not feasible for years. And really I want to be able to search my history with queries like (contains foo, not bar, was marked sometime in 2014 or 2015). And see my history in chronological order. The problem with my browser's history is that it is polluted with the pages I never want to see again, like last week's weather forecast. I'm sure that there's something that does this already, maybe it is Evernote. But PageDash's guarantee of preserving the historical state seems novel and worthwhile.
- aeorgnoieang 9y ago
  I'm sure Evernote could do this. I've been using two different kinds of apps for this: - Offline-reading apps for stuff I want to read - (Tech) support ticket apps for stuff I (might) want to do I'm currently using Pocket for the first kind. Before that I was using Instapaper. For the second kind I'm using GitLab but I've still got a lot of old content in FogBugz that's not yet migrated. Neither saves or indexes the contents of links tho so I manually include text about what it is I wanted to do or sometimes just specific text I'd expect future-me to use to find the stuff. The main reason I use GitLab for stuff related to something I might want to do is that I use it for all of my other 'project' content too so it's nice to have everything of that nature in one place.
  - abainbridge 9y ago
    I just tried Evernote. I had a bunch of tabs open in Chrome. I installed both PashDash and Evernote extensions, then click their respective toolbar buttons. Here's what ensued. PashDash: The page was saved. I went to app.pagedash.com and could see it at the top of my history. Evernote: The extension popped up a dialog asking whether I wanted to clip an Article, Small Article, Bookmark. I didn't know the difference so just clicked Save. I got a dialog telling me I needed to reload the page. So I did and clicked the button again. That worked but took much longer than PageDash then showed another dialog saying "No Result" in large print and "Clipped to First Notebook" in small print. Ugghh. I visited the Evernote website and got a massive popup asking me if my email was still the one that I'd registered four minutes earlier. I clicked through and was redirected to a massive long URL. I could see my clipped article there, but its unclear if this massive URL is the one I should bookmark. It looks like PashDash is simpler and faster than Evernote. I like simple and fast. Unfortunately it looks like I'll run out of my monthly storage allowance on PashDash very quickly. And I can't see any search function in PashDash.
    - ernsheong 9y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. Search is high on my priority list next (already started looking into it)! And I really meant the free quota to be more of a try-PageDash thing, so I'd really appreciate the support via a paid subscription, because ultimately that would keep me going. Please do let me know via support@pagedash if you feel the pricing is a bit steep, I can open up an even lighter plan. But I know that not being able to search is a deal-breaker, so stay tuned for that.

wouldn't OneTab extension be a better solution. I see PageDash as a personal Internet Archive/Wayback Machine

by vpvp 9y ago

wouldn't OneTab extension be a better solution. I see PageDash as a personal Internet Archive/Wayback Machine

Possibly yes for the problem as I described it. But really what I want is to mark pages that I thought were interesting and _might_ want to see again at some point in my life. Maybe that will be in two years. My approach of leaving a load of tabs open for a few weeks catches many of the cases of pages I want to re-read, but is obviously not feasible for years. And really I want to be able to search my history with queries like (contains foo, not bar, was marked sometime in 2014 or 2015). And see my history in chronological order. The problem with my browser's history is that it is polluted with the pages I never want to see again, like last week's weather forecast. I'm sure that there's something that does this already, maybe it is Evernote. But PageDash's guarantee of preserving the historical state seems novel and worthwhile.

aeorgnoieang 9y ago
I'm sure Evernote could do this. I've been using two different kinds of apps for this: - Offline-reading apps for stuff I want to read - (Tech) support ticket apps for stuff I (might) want to do I'm currently using Pocket for the first kind. Before that I was using Instapaper. For the second kind I'm using GitLab but I've still got a lot of old content in FogBugz that's not yet migrated. Neither saves or indexes the contents of links tho so I manually include text about what it is I wanted to do or sometimes just specific text I'd expect future-me to use to find the stuff. The main reason I use GitLab for stuff related to something I might want to do is that I use it for all of my other 'project' content too so it's nice to have everything of that nature in one place.
- abainbridge 9y ago
  I just tried Evernote. I had a bunch of tabs open in Chrome. I installed both PashDash and Evernote extensions, then click their respective toolbar buttons. Here's what ensued. PashDash: The page was saved. I went to app.pagedash.com and could see it at the top of my history. Evernote: The extension popped up a dialog asking whether I wanted to clip an Article, Small Article, Bookmark. I didn't know the difference so just clicked Save. I got a dialog telling me I needed to reload the page. So I did and clicked the button again. That worked but took much longer than PageDash then showed another dialog saying "No Result" in large print and "Clipped to First Notebook" in small print. Ugghh. I visited the Evernote website and got a massive popup asking me if my email was still the one that I'd registered four minutes earlier. I clicked through and was redirected to a massive long URL. I could see my clipped article there, but its unclear if this massive URL is the one I should bookmark. It looks like PashDash is simpler and faster than Evernote. I like simple and fast. Unfortunately it looks like I'll run out of my monthly storage allowance on PashDash very quickly. And I can't see any search function in PashDash.
  - ernsheong 9y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Search is high on my priority list next (already started looking into it)! And I really meant the free quota to be more of a try-PageDash thing, so I'd really appreciate the support via a paid subscription, because ultimately that would keep me going. Please do let me know via support@pagedash if you feel the pricing is a bit steep, I can open up an even lighter plan. But I know that not being able to search is a deal-breaker, so stay tuned for that.