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Ask HN: Sifting through & making sense of browsing history?
I would like HN's recommendations for a browser plugin or something similar?
Here's my problem: Like most people, I browse a lot. I post some of the really interesting technology related links to HN, business related links to NewMogul(NM), and then there are other things I read that are interesting that I don't post or don't come under either HN or NM.
My history has a lot of great info, at least some of that would be useful to me in the future. Is there a good way to manage history? browsed links?
I could sift through history in Safari or FF, that would be cumbersome. I could bookmark everything or add it to delicious, that again is cumbersome. I started using InfoAxe, so that I can search through my history -- while that is a step better, it is less than ideal.
What do folks here recommend? Thanks!
- yan 18y agoI always wanted to create an extension that would store history as a graph of traversal and not a list of visited URLs. The link is what makes the web powerful, I don't see why history doesn't share the same connected nature.
- decadentcactus 18y agoYeah, I was planning on making something for Firefox that tracked my Wikipedia treks, because I wanted to keep track of pages I went to and when, but also how I ended up there. It'd be interesting to see but also good for preserving topics. That being said I haven't even started it yet because I have so much on my plate :( Also had a plan to somehow enhance the way bookmarks are stored in FF, but I figured it was already covered by something like del.icio.us.
- pasbesoin 18y agoSlogger https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143 Scrapbook https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427 Both are configurable. Not sure whether they would achieve what you want, but they are worth a look. For myself, I use Scrapbook to save interesting pages for future perusal. This is very convenient, and it can help limit the growth of large numbers of open tabs and the resultant resource consumption and slowdown. Scrapbook also has integrated search. Scrapbook can be set to save every page visited, and to save a bookmark rather than the entire page. I'm not sure whether the two can be combined. HTH P.S. Looks like Scrapbook is supporting Firefox 3, now. I'm still on 2 and so don't know how that support is going. Earlier lack of support was one (of several) compatibility issues that kept me back on 2.
- jonsid 18y agoHi Prakash, this is Jonathan (from infoaxe). Would it help if infoaxe tracked and made available to you all the urls you have shared with friends in the past? infoaxe offers ways to share content from your web memory (over email and to facebook) and we could archive and show this ordered by time or something similar. Email me at jonathan@infoaxe.com if you have other suggestions/questions. Thanks for trying out the alpha!