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Looks very much like one of the ideas I've been thinking of building! The way I planned to do it was to use a similar approach to rga for files ( https://github
by SahAssar 5y ago
Looks very much like one of the ideas I've been thinking of building! The way I planned to do it was to use a similar approach to rga for files ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all ) and having a webextension to pull all webpages I vist (filtered via something like https://github.com/mozilla/readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability ), dump that into either sqlite with FTS5 or postgres with FTS for search.
A good search engine for "my stuff" and "stuff I've seen before" is not available for most people in my experience. Pinboard and similar sites fill some of that role, but only for things that you bookmark (and I'm not sure they do full-text search of the documents).
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Two things I'd mention are:
1. Digital footprint usually means your info on other sites, not just things I've accessed. If I read a blog that is not part of my footprint, but if I leave a comment on that blog that comment is part of it. The term is also mostly used in a tracking and negative context (although there are exceptions), so you might want to change that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_footprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_footprint
2. I don't really get what makes it UNIX-style (or what exactly you mean by that? There seems to be many definitions), and the readme does not seem to clarify much besides expecting me to notice it by myself.
- eddieh 5y agoI've been toying with an idea like this too. I set my browser to never delete history items years ago, so I have a huge amount of daily web use that needs to be indexed. The browser's built in history search has saved me a few times, but it is so primitive it hurts.
- MacroChip 5y agoI made https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/histree/linpklflmolmnhckgoojppnfhajngaoh?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/histree/linpklflmo... to put your browsing into a tree view. The search does not search the site content, so it's different from full indexers, but it's a nice enhancement to browser history.
- aero-glide2 5y agoDon't know how to message users on hackernews, so posting as a reply here hope you don't mind. Saw your comment from 5 years ago about wishing Orbiter was open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943028 The author has now made it open source! https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-source.40023/ https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-so...
- grae_QED 5y ago>I don't really get what makes it UNIX-style I think what they meant was that it's an entirely text based program. Perhaps they are conflating UNIX with CLI.