SOsolarkraft·Dec 12, 2023
I think WorldBrain (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex) promises this. While I'm also excited by the idea, I think there was some reason I ended up not using it.
In MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser dataWorldBrain
Memex
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WorldBrain / Memex
Memex
Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.
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What it is
Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.
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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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HN mentions by year14 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-02-15 16:15:08 UTC to 2023-12-12 18:37:28 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
14 sourcesyou are probably aware of the WorldBrain/Memex project?
https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
Not sure, but I think they only search pages that you explicitly bookmark, unlike BrowserParrot
In Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser historythere is another Memex project with a Firefox extension.
https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
In Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/ObsidianDoes Memex resemble what you were wishing for? (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/)
In On Browser TabsMemex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/) provides for searching your history and bookmarks. That might help alleviate the need to maintain sets of tabs.
The Vimium extension for Firefox also happens to provide basic filtering of open tabs, although I've never tried it with anywhere near 1600. YMMV.
Other commenters have already mentioned Tree Style Tabs and similar extensions which can aid in grouping and managing things efficiently.
> URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace.
This is a serious problem in my experience. To that end, Zotero is an invaluable research tool with browser extensions for (among other things) taking a snapshot of an open webpage. Its library exists externally to your browser though which might add friction to your workflow.
In On Browser Tabstl;dr Kicking out the non-experts won't solve the current problems and is likely to introduce new ones. It's a tooling issue, not a platform one.
This is a difficult problem. In trying to reduce the noise by choosing who gets to speak, you immediately encounter a number of issues related to gatekeeping. Moreover, filtering by source doesn't directly address what I see as the underlying problem of presenting relevant information to the user.
Competent and aggressive moderation seems to work fairly well for setting a standard of discourse without excluding anyone (HN is a good example here) but it's time consuming. And it doesn't do much of anything to address the problem of filtering for relevant information.
I think conversations themselves (ie actual back-and-forth with meaningful input from all sides) ultimately just don't scale well be
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yond a small group. Topic specific mailing lists seem to be the least-worst solution to date, and a Facebook group or subreddit is essentially the same thing implemented using a proprietary platform.
It seems like we still lack the models and tooling to address these problems on a fundamental level. Plenty of academic research exists surrounding knowledge graphs, ontologies, and relationships, but in practice all the mainstream tooling that "just works" is restricted to hierarchical folders (and tags if you're lucky). Zotero is very much a least-worst reference management solution in my opinion (I detailed my thoughts in an HN comment sometime within the past year if you're curious). On the literature front we have things like Arxiv Sanity Preserver and Semantic Scholar, but we're still proverbially drowning in new publications. Tools like Memex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex) and Contextualise (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) look promising, but aren't (yet?) a complete solution.
Try https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex, it has annotation and lets you review previously seen versions of a site as you're browsing.
Or check out some of the other options here:
- https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
- https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
In Wayback Machine was downProbably this: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
In Archiving Web Sites (2018)I installed a Memex-inspired extension on my browser, but I don't use it. Most of the time I forget it's there.
https://getmemex.com/ https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
FWIW, what I really want is a timeline that shows my browsing history.
In How to Make a MemexThere is some effort into that: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
You might find that (both the page and the project) useful too: https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
In The sad state of personal data and infrastructureMemex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks
288 points · Open discussionPeople who find this useful may also find a number of other web archiving projects helpful:
- https://github.com/machawk1/warcreate
- https://github.com/webrecorder/pywb
- https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
- https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
- https://getpolarized.io/
And lots of others here:
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
In Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysisExtension source code -> https://github.com/worldbrain/Memex
In Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing historyMemex: open-source full-text search extension for browsing history and bookmarks
33 points · Open discussion