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Ask HN: A browser extension to auto-archive every Hacker News story you read?
Hey guys.
I'm the author of Polar https://getpolarized.io/, a reading platform and personal knowledge repository features on Show HN a few months back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960
I'm considering adding a feature to auto-archive every link clicked in the browser extension.
Well.. just certain links. Like if you visit HN and click on a link it will get auto-archived.
This way you can search your history plus if the URL vanishes (or is changed) you have a copy from when you saw it.
Sort of like a personal Internet Archive.
Curious if you this would be interesting for you guys... if so we will probably implement it. I'm torn. One one hand it sounds cool but on the other it sounds like it would collect a lot of data!
- fxfan 8y agoHN is too niche - I would encourage you to make a plugin/extension system and leave this website specific work to community.
- burtonator 8y agoIt wouldn't just be HN.. it would be other sites like Techmeme and Reddit. Basically archive every link you click on.
- fxfan 8y agoI recently saw on HN an "offline first" browser. The idea is cool.
- burtonator 8y agoWas it Polar?
- burtonator 8y agohttps://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/
- staz 8y agodon't know if Polar already has that but what I liked with Instapaper was that you could add a page to it with just a simple bookmarklet. No complicated plugin. just a quick click in the bookmark toolback to add an article.
- burtonator 8y agoYup.. we have one... one click addition to Polar.