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Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks

29 points| quambene | 2 years ago |github.com

Occasionally, I need full-text search on my bookmarks to find a specific bookmark I added some time ago.

Usually, browsers only support search of bookmarks in the website's title tag which is often not sufficient to find a bookmark.

Some browsers, like Safari, provide built-in support for full-text search, but can only be used for content that's already in the browser's history.

Bogrep imports your bookmarks from multiple browsers (removing duplicates), and then downloads and caches them in plaintext (without images or videos). These cached bookmarks are subsequently used for full-text search.

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pseudo_meta|2 years ago

Simple but fine idea. Wonder why nobody in the "PKM-scene" came up with this before.

Small suggestion: could you make it available for other package managers like homebrew, since not everyone has the rust tool chain installed?

rifty|2 years ago

This is a bit late.. but a lot of PKM-scene are using bookmarkers and readers with offline webpage saving and search already. I suppose this is enough support as a lot of scene seems more interested in optimizing the information organization tooling experience that comes with the separate apps and bookmarking formats.

I think these sorts of automated personal knowledge gathering systems are an under developed concept. There is things going on though with projects like Spyglass which does local website indexing and search.

quambene|2 years ago

Thanks, yep I'm currently working on proper support for Bogrep on macOS.

cxr|2 years ago

> Wonder why nobody in the "PKM-scene" came up with this before.

They have. Many, many, many, many, many times.

genewitch|2 years ago

Does anyone remember the name of the service or similar software that takes a screenshot every N seconds and runs OCR on it, so that you can search everything you saw on your screen at any time?

I remember HN balked at the cost.

A combination of that and this would make my life so much better, i think. That or giving away all of my computers.

luckman212|2 years ago

Are you talking about rewind.ai? (no affiliation) I have been eyeing the service, I tried the free version and it was pretty amazing. But I can't bring myself to pay the $30/mo. Hoping somehow they offer this for $10/mo someday.

https://www.rewind.ai