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I’ve seen a handful of this kind of “Google, but only for things I’ve seen before” app. I think it’s something the world needs, but there are a lot of different
by jchook 5y ago
I’ve seen a handful of this kind of “Google, but only for things I’ve seen before” app. I think it’s something the world needs, but there are a lot of different approaches and I don’t think anyone has quite nailed it.
Ultimately the best solutions will likely use many different cataloging strategies depending on the content, and will allow you to tag or otherwise organize important content.
Funny enough if I had such an app I could make a list of 4 or 5 examples, but right now can only find one:
https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo
I remember seeing one posted to HN that used the browser API to essentially dump websites you visit to disk.
There’s also bookmarking and archiving tools like:
https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/
https://unmark.it/ https://unmark.it/
https://www.linkace.org/ https://www.linkace.org/
https://archivy.github.io/ https://archivy.github.io/
https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence
https://perkeep.org/ https://perkeep.org/
- Pamar 5y agoPersonally I use Historio.us, but maybe it is not in the same category you are talking about? (I found it here on HM and so far - I have used it for a year or so - seems to be a good fit for my needs)
- d4rkp4ttern 5y agoWhat if I only want a nice front-end to search my chrome browsing history? Is there a good app for that? I know I can visit the chrome history page but looking for a better UI
- jamal-kumar 5y agoApollo struck me as the better of the two similar things posted today, mostly because this APSE thing purports security while operating on somehow securely storing screenshots taken of your desktop while you're working on it (Yeah haha what about all my chat apps)
- noyesno 5y agoI used https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/ for a while but it was too buggy to be relied on.
- kranner 5y agoThere's https://timesnapper.com/ https://timesnapper.com/ for Mac and Windows. I used the Windows version for a while but had to stop using it because it was buggy: it ignored the disk usage limit I'd set and proceeded to fill up my entire boot drive with images.
- igammarays 5y agoNo. This is a fundamentally different idea. This is not a bookmarking/archiver/knowledge base/search engine. For my personal searchable knowledge base I personally use DevonThink. This tool is crazily different -- it screenshots your screen and makes your entire screen history searchable. That's game-changing because it captures information that you don't consciously choose to save or store. That's a whole class of information that's not available with existing tools.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoI think the main issue with 'Searching the personal bookmarks' is the lifetime of the information in those content we've bookmarked, Some like history, art etc. are ageless but for almost everything we search day-to-day on the search are for latest information on something.