BlackForestBoy

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by BlackForestBoy 4y ago
I found bookmarking tools often lacking a more holistic integration into research workflows that are not just about saving things, but also taking notes. We’ve developed Memex to solve for that. It’s an offline first extension for bookmarki
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
Kind of a bummer that this trended one week too early - next week we'll publish a big release with performance, UX and stability improvements. Especially we focused on indexing and page load performance.
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
Oli here from Memex. It may be that you have not touched the indexing preferences (which only index pages that are visited for more than 5 seconds) Is that the reason, or does it still not work?
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
Oli here from WorldBrain.io I am confused. We never offered lifetime subscriptions. However what we did is give people who supported us between 4 and 5 times the supporter amount in credits they can use to upgrade. We sent an email around
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
It's way better now but still some way to go! Kind of a bummer that this trended one week too early - next week we'll publish a big release with performance, UX and stability improvements.
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
We are about to develop a bi-directional integration with Hypothes.is and Memex together with the Hypothes.is team. (Oli here from WorldBrain.io)
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by BlackForestBoy 6y ago
Oli here from WorldBrain.io A bit of a timing issue here :) We are about to have a big release with lots of improvements, including an API, performance, UX and bug fixes. Our API will be served via Storex https://medium.com/
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> These are mostly complaints, but I'm glad you're working on this project. Wow. Thanks so so so much for taking the time to write this all out. This has been super useful. I added all your feedbacks to our UX/UI/bug
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> Does it have a way to handle page content that's less relevant? It already collects some basic interaction data like visit frequency, stay time and scroll %. This data could be used to clean the db a bit. Other than that there is
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
The firefox extension is not officially supported, because it is still very spotty to use. Its missing APIs and was not worth the effort for now to support it with a limited feature set. Memex App will be a dedicated app that in its MVP wor
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. Thanks for adding so much input to the conversation. :) Let me address a few points you made: > A complete P2P system would upend that model, assuming it could be made to work well (the asymmetry of the b
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
How would you like to organise it? Like in your screenshot? Is it the ordering inside a collection that is important to you? Would it solve it if you were able to order items inside a collection?
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
No that is an entirely different beast :) Both projects took the inspiration for the name from the same thing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> but it was popping the sidebar up in circumstances where i didnt want it Ok so the core issue was that the sidebar was popping up in places you didn't want to? Or was it also that the keyboard shortcuts were firing the sidebar to
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> Why, might I ask? Your tagline is full text search, but I have to turn it on? It was a trial we added in the last onboarding overhaul 2 weeks ago. Will already be changed in the next update. > I'd reconsider the landing page he
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Great feedback. Will incorporate it in the upcoming UX/UI updates. Thanks for the effort to make us aware.
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> On 2, I mean these (feeds, topic lists etc.) are probably not worth indexing at all, esp. since you keep all old content in the index. Yeah indeed. A better implementation for now would be to let people save single posts, or sync with
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. glad you bring that up :) After we are finished with the current work on making Memex more stable and user friendly, we are working on shareable collections. With that you can share lists of websites, papers
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
> Sorry to give you a bad review Please don't feel sorry. :) If something does not work then we deserve those things to be said, also publicly. It's what after all helps us to improve and keeps us accountable. > "respon
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. Yes! That is indeed a major problem with all knowledge management tools. They tend to not be interoperable enough so you can easily integrate them into your existing workflows. Also they are not built to be
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. Yes indeed we will be a regular SaaS business, but with a strong focus on privacy, data ownership and interoperability. More can be found here: https://community.worldbrain.io/t/why-wor
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. 1. Yes the index is updated every time you visit. It appends the new terms, and keeps all old ones 2. That is a bit more difficult and not as reliable unfortunately. If there is a lazy load on the page it of
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. A bummer, sorry you experience troubles. > Texts highlights are a pain to use (so I don't, even though I love highlighting text while reading) Why are they a pain to use for you? What would be 1-2 th
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here from the Memex team. We have been featured a couple of times on HN. This one comes up every time. Gold. <3
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. Yeah we know it has not been really well functioning in the past few months. Had a lot of bugs. We finally got a bigger round of funding and are now able to fix those. Until February our main focus is impr
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. are you referring to Memex being card based? In which part of Memex would you like to have that drag&drop ability to organise stuff?
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. Up until now all data is stored on your own device, or in your personal cloud with a file system integration (like a Dropbox folder) We are about to release our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as s
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. Thanks for the feedback. Except it being able to be turned off, how could we make the implementation less intrusive for you?
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team. Memex is not able to do cross-browser/device yet, but we are short before releasing our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as syncing between devices. Both the extension and mobile app will be of
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by BlackForestBoy 7y ago
Oliver here, from the Memex team At the moment analytics are turnt off, but in general we only do telemetrical analytics. So we only track the way you interact with the software, like the buttons you click, to optimise user flows. We don&#x

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