muesli
At some point in history we collectively gave up on bookmarks and just resorted to piling up hundreds of tabs in our browser windows.
I still fancy the idea of a locally running and private search engine, that tracks everything I do on the web, so I can search my browsing history and easily rediscover things I've read months or years ago.
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@fribbledom i like that idea. i went back to using bookmarks, a personal search engine would be really handy
Adrian Heine
@fribbledom I have a text file in which I list most things I read with a short comment but yeah
messs55
@fribbledom I just bookmark tons of sites just to never look at them again. Same with tabs, I have like 70 different tabs open on my tablet, half of which I haven't looked in at least 6 months.
muesli
Yeah, it's just not manageable.
messs55
@fribbledom I feel like I need some solution that I can organize properly and can use everywhere. At this point I have a mess of links and notes on like 5 different devices in different apps and places and formats
Asimech
@fribbledom I moved away from "save mega session" some years back.
Now I do a mix of text files, bookmarks and embracing the fleeting nature of all knowledge before the onslaught of entropy.
muesli
I was a part of this, but frankly I never liked the design or implementation.
marius
@fribbledom you'd probably have loved the original ideas of Nepomuk, KDE's semantic desktop framework:
muesli
Tried it, but felt like it's even more cluttered and cumbersome then.
Carl
@fribbledom TreeTabs?
muesli
It tracks your history and searches, but I'm actually thinking of indexing the actual content of the pages you visit.
Antoine-Frédéric :dark_mail_alliance: :lavabit:
@fribbledom Doesn’t Firefox do that? That’s how I’ve used it for years, might have to disable search suggestions now.
Ben Zanin
@fribbledom I strongly suspect that one of the benefits of keeping a huge herd of free-range tabs is that it lets typing in the address bar function as a sort of search function over them.
If I could dedicate a couple of gigs of local storage to a cache of page contents, with keyword indexing for rapid searching, plus maybe a bit of "you last visited this page on these dates from these referrer links"... man, that would be amazingly useful.
Felix
@fribbledom May I recommend a personal web directory like this one? https://felix.plesoianu.ro/links/
muesli
I mean, I do something like that already. Too much manual work, tho.
Brent Anderson
@fribbledom This project from Linus Lee is a personal search engine just like you're describing. Very much worth the read: https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/
Bill Cole
@fribbledom I still use bookmarks—and on my desktop, have LaunchBar shortcuts to open the most frequently used of them—as well as a pinboard.in account for archiving interesting things I’m not necessarily going to come back to but that I don’t want to lose entirely. I’m not a big tab-user.
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