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How much would you be willing to pay for such a service?

gowings97 4y ago
$20/month USD. I put a lot of value on being able to retrieve everything I've ever read.
metadat 4y ago
Why can't it be built into the browser? Preserving privacy is nice when there's no compelling reason to sacrifice it. Does this really need to be a SaaS?
- agencies 4y ago
  Depends on required features like cross browser support, cross device support, handling pdfs, ocr images, etc. Some of the mentioned features already exist in the browser. Not sure if the browser vendors are incentivized to develop and maintain such features.
  - metadat 4y ago
    I recall a project showcased on HN that does browser history full text indexing via a proxy. Perhaps that would be a better approach.
    - agencies 4y ago
      Yeah several threads on HN that have lists of tools and pros/cons.
- kazinator 4y ago
  It is? In Firefox, type *, space and then search terms; this searches bookmarks. Also, in the Bookmarks -> Manage Boomarks menu there is a search box, for those who despise convenience.
  - metadat 4y ago
    They're talking about including page content, Firefox only includes title, URL, and manually added tags.
- stonogo 4y ago
  It is built into Safari (via the History interface). Opera had this feature before it became a Chrome reskin. Chrome used to support it, but it only worked on http (not https) sites and after some years the feature was dropped. Chrome addons like Falcon bring it back (but Falcon seems unattended these days). The Min Browser offers full-text search history out of the box, but the browser experience is ... eccentric. There was a SaaS service for this called Recawl which required a browser plugin. memex.garden offered this as part of a SaaS but they dropped this feature. Browserparrot focuses on this, again as a SaaS, again with uncertain pricing. Diskernet does this fully-local, but the software is not free (and is only offered via subscription pricing). St. Clair Software's HistoryHound does full-text history search, but only on Mac; I suppose it's got a bigger featureset than the Safari tool, and it supports not-Safari browsers. The field is littered with previous attempts to get this right.

$20/month USD. I put a lot of value on being able to retrieve everything I've ever read.

Why can't it be built into the browser? Preserving privacy is nice when there's no compelling reason to sacrifice it. Does this really need to be a SaaS?

agencies 4y ago
Depends on required features like cross browser support, cross device support, handling pdfs, ocr images, etc. Some of the mentioned features already exist in the browser. Not sure if the browser vendors are incentivized to develop and maintain such features.
- metadat 4y ago
  I recall a project showcased on HN that does browser history full text indexing via a proxy. Perhaps that would be a better approach.
  - agencies 4y ago
    Yeah several threads on HN that have lists of tools and pros/cons.
kazinator 4y ago
It is? In Firefox, type *, space and then search terms; this searches bookmarks. Also, in the Bookmarks -> Manage Boomarks menu there is a search box, for those who despise convenience.
- metadat 4y ago
  They're talking about including page content, Firefox only includes title, URL, and manually added tags.
stonogo 4y ago
It is built into Safari (via the History interface). Opera had this feature before it became a Chrome reskin. Chrome used to support it, but it only worked on http (not https) sites and after some years the feature was dropped. Chrome addons like Falcon bring it back (but Falcon seems unattended these days). The Min Browser offers full-text search history out of the box, but the browser experience is ... eccentric. There was a SaaS service for this called Recawl which required a browser plugin. memex.garden offered this as part of a SaaS but they dropped this feature. Browserparrot focuses on this, again as a SaaS, again with uncertain pricing. Diskernet does this fully-local, but the software is not free (and is only offered via subscription pricing). St. Clair Software's HistoryHound does full-text history search, but only on Mac; I suppose it's got a bigger featureset than the Safari tool, and it supports not-Safari browsers. The field is littered with previous attempts to get this right.