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Would it be possible to add auto-archiving to the extension? On the $9/mo plan, I'd probably still not hit 100GB/mo of uploads. My main reason for wanting thi

Would it be possible to add auto-archiving to the extension? On the $9/mo plan, I'd probably still not hit 100GB/mo of uploads. My main reason for wanting this feature is that I could use the full text search (when it's available) to search every webpage I've visited. I find myself more and more frequently unable to find things I know existed at one point. I've been thinking of building my own solution where I just archive every page I visit on the fly then build a personal search for pages I've previously visited.

ernsheong 9y ago
Hi there, I actually know someone else who wants this feature. I feel like most of the sites out there are "junk", i.e. things that are not worth saving. So just save the gems. But that's me. My feelings aside, technically this would be rather hard to do as it stands because saving a page is quite costly, i.e. mainly: 1) data retrieval, 2) data upload will cause you to not be able to use the internet seamlessly as PageDash will stall things. For some reason, even though the assets are already in the browser, PageDash as an extension cannot retrieve it directly. Also the extension right now over-mines, i.e. retrieves way more than what is actually needed to render the page, just because there's a lot of dead CSS/JS/images links out there, and I haven't figured out a way to make it more efficient. However, if all you care about is the HTML (which is essentially what full-text searches search), then this is technically possible, but the result won't be pretty. But auto-save is technically and realistically possible if you only care about the HTML.
- ernsheong 9y ago
  Chrome does support keyboard shortcuts, though. Go to chrome://extensions/, look for "Keyboard shortcuts" at the bottom right, and configure away for a quick save :)
kbyatnal 9y ago
Check this out - seems to do what you want. https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon "Chrome extension for flexible full text browsing history search. Every time you visit a website in Chrome, Falcon indexes all the text on the page so that the site can be easily found later."

ernsheong 9y ago

Hi there, I actually know someone else who wants this feature. I feel like most of the sites out there are "junk", i.e. things that are not worth saving. So just save the gems. But that's me. My feelings aside, technically this would be rather hard to do as it stands because saving a page is quite costly, i.e. mainly: 1) data retrieval, 2) data upload will cause you to not be able to use the internet seamlessly as PageDash will stall things. For some reason, even though the assets are already in the browser, PageDash as an extension cannot retrieve it directly. Also the extension right now over-mines, i.e. retrieves way more than what is actually needed to render the page, just because there's a lot of dead CSS/JS/images links out there, and I haven't figured out a way to make it more efficient. However, if all you care about is the HTML (which is essentially what full-text searches search), then this is technically possible, but the result won't be pretty. But auto-save is technically and realistically possible if you only care about the HTML.

ernsheong 9y ago
Chrome does support keyboard shortcuts, though. Go to chrome://extensions/, look for "Keyboard shortcuts" at the bottom right, and configure away for a quick save :)

kbyatnal 9y ago

Check this out - seems to do what you want. https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon "Chrome extension for flexible full text browsing history search. Every time you visit a website in Chrome, Falcon indexes all the text on the page so that the site can be easily found later."