promnesia

I built promnesia, a browser extension to connect together different data sources and enhance browser history. E.g. if you visit some blog post or youtube video you had in your bookmarks, you would be able to tell if it was coming from your reddit saved posts, or if your friend sent it to you on telegram. Another feature is displaying annotations from any sources (e.g. pocket/instapaper);as an overlay on any page I've been using it for a while now, and just needs final touches before I'll release it https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia

Hey, author here! That's exciting, you basically mirror my thoughts here :) I agree with what you're saying about siloes, that's especially sad considering that having all this stuff unified and interacting is not some sort of mad science fiction, it's totally possible with technology that we have. It's just tedious for various reasons (one of which is that demand from users isn't high in the first place). I'm working on a browser extension that unifies annotations and highlights from different sources like pocket, instapaper, hypothesis, or even plaintext notes: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia . I've been using it for more than a year, hope to release it soon (few things are specific to my setup, so I need to make them simpler/clearer for other people to use).

I'm actually working on a tool that aggregates annotations across different services https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia (screenshot is a bit old, e.g. currently it's capable of displaying inline highlights as well). I've been using it for almost a year now, but it needs few final touches before I can release it. The 'less technical users' bit is tricky one. I am trying to make it as effortless as possible, but there is some inevitable overhead for running export scripts, configuring etc. I'm also working on a post exploring this overhead and thinking of ways to make it better :)