promnesia

One solution is to continuously record web history and then just search it. The advantage is: 1. you often don't know what resources you will really "value" in the future, so no more "to save or not to save, this is the question" 2. tagging, to be effective, requires discipline (thinking about then sticking to an agile system). So, we just replace it with search, preferably NLP/AI (so you don't have to remember the exact keywords) Apps do exist, from the expensive [1] to the experimental [2]. [1] https://heyday.xyz/ [2] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia

These two (Chromium-based) seem to stand out : https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon https://github.com/crisdosyago/Diskernet ------ Others : Similar Mac Only ->: https://www.browserparrot.com/ "AI" Powered -> https://heyday.xyz/ Novel Concept -> https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia Extend your normal History Search (beyond 3 months) -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...

I generally archive as pdf ONLY things really interesting me, in org-mode/org-roam managed notes as org-attachments, most other links are just noted with a not-that-good but the best I found combo: - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-m... and https://github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org-mode - https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html and https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/promnesia/ - https://beepb00p.xyz/grasp.html and https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasp The first to quickly copy text from html, the second to see if something is already noted, the third to quickly archive the bookmark. In the past I've used Zotero witch works automatically VERY well (and on deduplicated storage does not consume so much disk space)

It's kind of tricky to do in general case, e.g. even hackernews is keeping meaningful semantic information in id= query parameter. Because of that it ultimately needs to a site-specific database/algorithm, perhaps with a fallback to the default behaviour like simply cleaning up the most common garbage like (_encoding/usg/etc). I suspect it's possible to use some sort of machine learning to guess the meaningful parts of the URL path/query/fragments, but even for that we need some human curation for the training set. I wish we could collaborate on a shared database/library for that, have sketched some ideas/applications/prior art here: https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain/projects/cannon.html I started thinking about it since I have a similar problem in Promnesia (https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme), a knowledge management tool I'm work

You might also like promnesia https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme And if you're interested we have a small discord server "awesome knowledge management" come join us! https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j

I'm working on tools/projects to unify, access, interact and use my personal data for quantified self, knowledge management, etc. A couple of examples: - https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme - https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme Would very much love to discuss it with other people, collaborate etc.

Love the opened-from tracking for tabs and spatial organization, which reminds me of the Promnesia extension [0] that helps you track when you've been to a page in the past and where you came from. I think there's a huge untapped potential value for users in historical browsing activity that is just wasted by browsers today (well when they're not busy siphoning it off to advertisers). The standard browser history data and ui is so crap at mapping to your intuition about how to find some tab you had open recently that it's basically useless. It was modeled when the primary navigation in a browser was one window with no tabs and you clicked from site to site literally linearly, and this design has never been updated since. Now I have 2-4 windows, with dozens of tabs each, on 4 computing devices, where windows have been open for times rangin

Similar also to Promnesia (https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia), which includes a browser extension to search the records.

I think it would be neat to try integrating ArchiveBox with the enhanced history / browsing context extension Promnesia [1]. [1]: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia

- promnesia: a Memex-like tool to enhance my web browsing experience with more context and connections https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme - cachew: library that allows to cache python function calls in an sqlite database with just a single decorator (leveraging on type annotations) https://github.com/karlicoss/cachew#readme - dron: a friendlier 'frontend' for systemd which allows me to declare jobs as python code living in the same file -- combines best bits of systemd and cron https://github.com/karlicoss/dron#readme. I elaborate a bit more on motivation for it on my blog https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html

I have an idea for a project (I call it 'cannon' for now)[0] which would 'canonicalize' URLs and extract semantic information from it, ideally just by looking at the URL, without doing any extra requests. For example, a tweet URL usually encodes the tweet author and tweet ID; and by extracting such entities one could determine 'relations' between URLs. I'm using a simple prototype in Promnesia [1], a browser extension aiming to make the web browsing history more useful and aid knowledge management. This effort is really ought to be shared, it's potentially a lot of manual work, and could benefit many projects. ClearURLs seems like one of the most promising existing projects doing similar stuff; have been meaning to approach the devs, feels like it's something we could cooperate on. Although ClearURL has a somewhat narrower scope, but stil

Hmm I checked and I also have this bit of code I added a while ago to the manifest for non-release builds [0]: browser_specific_settings = {'gecko': {'id': 'promnesia@karlicoss.github.com'} } Maybe this is what makes it just a warning (still not sure why it warns!). [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/blob/b9e59262b2fc51ef... Definitely agree that the docs could be improved on web extension development & testing in general, I often feel the whole ecosystem is a bit hostile.

Absolutely, I'm using it to build an extension both for Chrome and Firefox [0]. Perhaps the only Firefox-specific thing is 'sign' command which signs for addonz.mozilla.org [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/blob/master/extension...

This looks like what you want. A couple of weeks ago, the extension Promnesia was on the first page of HN (Haven't used it, but looks interesting) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668507 Its github goes more to the point of what it can do https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme

Fair enough! Created an issue https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/issues/120