One of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox is that Firefox seems to already be doing this. At least it searches all parts of the URL and the title, so I'm 99% successful at getting the right URL in the awesomebar when I'm looking for something.<p>Chrome is just horrible when it comes to this, and I can never get back to previous pages when searching via the addressbar.
I’ve tried to find a solution to bookmark searching for a while. I’ve never found a product I liked or trust. Lately I’ve been manually adding bookmarks to a custom google search engine. I’m considering building an extension that will add them directly or sync chrome bookmarks. I figure google already knows what I’ve searched, so I feel much less sketchy about it.<p>Would this extension be interesting to anyone? It would be very simple, open source, and have no middle man. It would send links directly to a google CSE via their API.
I get the point of this, but me personally, I prefer to have aspects of me forgotten/gone rather than remembered, stored and searchable in the future. Yes, it's true that, about once every two months, I am looking for something that I swear I came across on the Internet at some point. However, the rest of the time, I'm able to re-find it just by doing another search, whether on search-engine-of-choice, or a search box on particular-website (e.g. socnet, stackoverflow, reddit, github, hacker news...).
this project has been around for a while, see also some interesting comments: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13427360" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13427360</a>
Looks like I can mark my Softwarerecs question as answered. hahah.<p><a href="https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/46270/16751" rel="nofollow">https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/46270/16751</a><p>While I've been waiting for this, I've been using 'Export History (2.2)' browser extension in Chrome. This saves your history to CSV or JSON.
Nice! I hacked something together to do this 12-odd years ago. I had something to save the pages I visit to folder, and then a desktop search tool dtSearch that I bought to index them. It was invaluable when I really needed it, but too awkward to be really useful. Often it ended up being easier to find the page again with Google if I remembered something unique about it.<p>This extension looks like it could finally make it convenient enough to be more commonly useful, and privacy focused enough that I'm willing to try it. Great work! Are you planning to charge something for this in the future, or for extra features? I would definitely be willing to pay for it.
Seems like the Falcon extension has not gotten any updates in the last year or two:<p><a href="https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon</a>
The landing page emphasizes the word "focussed", with double S's, which didn't look right to me. Apparently both "focused" and "focussed" are acceptable, with the single S version "focused" being highly preferred [0].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-focussed-or-focused/" rel="nofollow">http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-focussed-o...</a>
I nice idea, but an open source browser plugin with all local storage would fit my needs better.<p>I prototyped something roughly like this several years ago. I wrote a simple Firefox plugin that communicated with a locally running server written in Closure with a Clojurescript web app for browsing that used the same server backend. I stopped working on the because services like Evernote do a better job, at the loss of some privacy.<p>Edit: I didn’t intend to imply that Evernote reads or uses user data.
It would be great to be able to change the search engine keyword from 'w' to something else. My brain has hardwired that to the Wikipedia search.<p>Otherwise, I think this is super!
This seems a very interesting project. I'll see how this works in practice.<p>It starts to get icky when you notice the devs have a business plan to outsource the indexing to the cloud, but there's a commitment to keep the servers parts open source too, so that you can self host.
Wouldn't it be a better alternative to use an autosave plugin for the bookmarks and use a local indexer like DocFetcher or OpenSemanticSearch through the browser? Then you can also search other resources and files.
"Search every word of every website you visited"<p>That will most likely return a lot of hits for sites I didn't like and would like to forget about.