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Hi HN, a few months ago I started building a suite of knowledge management tools to for my own needs. It's been a long iterative process of noticing patterns (a
by laybak 6y ago
Hi HN, a few months ago I started building a suite of knowledge management tools to for my own needs. It's been a long iterative process of noticing patterns (and inefficiencies) in my workflow, building simple tools to improve it, and evolving the UX over time.
One of the tools I have been using daily is a web clipper that captures not just the current page, but can automatically extract key information from it. You can also do a quick lookup of your existing notes regardless which web page you are on.
Prior to this, I had been using web clipper extensions by Evernote, OneNote, and Notion, and all of them had something missing that would significantly slow me down. Wanted to share what I have built to address this. The code is integrated with the [Rumin](https://getrumin.com https://getrumin.com) backend (the other tools I built), but you can easily swap out the API calls to point to local storage or some other endpoint.
Check it out. Would love to hear feedback from the community :)
- paultopia 6y agoThis looks really interesting! FYI, the rumin front page works, but the about page currently gives a 500 error code (HN slammed?)
- laybak 6y agothanks Paul! well that's embarrassing lol just pushed the fix
- slykar 6y agoWouldn't it be possible to support any video by simply scanning for <video> tags and getting current playback information from there? I'm not sure, but is the extension able to control he video playback in order to navigate to the right time?
- laybak 6y agogreat idea! yeah that would seem to be a better design. Regarding the playback time, currently I'm adding the "t=[TIME]s" parameter to the captured url, so it works for YouTube. But there are definitely more elegant solutions as this scales to support more websites.
- neovive 6y agoGreat project! Rumin looks very interesting as well. I was a long-time Evernote Web Clipper user, but switched to Notion a few months ago. I'm much happier with Notion's web clipping workflow and table storage approach, but it's not perfect.
- laybak 6y agothanks neovive! Yeah Notion's web clipping and table storage approach is quite elegant. It only gets a bit clumsy when we get to the "power user" (not very common) use cases