Promnesia

.promnesia *[data-sources*=code] .context {
  font-family: monospace;
}

/* tweak 'visited' marks: specify hex color here */
:root {
  --promnesia-src-sourcename-color: #ff00ff;
  /* e.g.
  --promnesia-src-reddit-color: #ff0000;
  or
  */
  --promnesia-src-twitter-color: #00acee77;
  --promnesia-src-notes-color: #00ff0077;
}

fuck, seems that twitter updates all the time? when scrolling
also bindSidebarData (in logs) is quite slow and also logs are spammy

one is actually physically clicking
anothe is visual, i.e. scrape off the links that were on the screen and store (kinda like web archiver/memex)

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1206055315000528898

@andy_matuschak:  @LiquidTextCorp @spiralstairs
I'm very excited to try!
I worry about the opacity of the app container model. Conceptually speaking, I want the LiquidText canvas at the level of the OS! Across not just some PDFs, but also web pages, mail messages, etc. The model pushes towards little app silos—it's a bummer.

should tweet at Andy Matuschak perhaps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=karlicoss#22657236

I love this idea and I would def use it! It would be also great if it would work backwards aswell, eg.: "the link I found on twitter last week"

Love this have been thinking in the same space where the content you consume is linked in-place to the content you (or the people you think are important) curate. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

We are starting the development of the Memex Reader, an offline-first Pocket-style reader for desktop and mobile + mobile annotations.
https://notion.so/worldbrain/Reader-Web-Archiver-Mobile-Annotations-extension-mobile-4ce4576dd1154f3f87f33eb6830ecebf

Is anyone interested in collaborating/contributing to this?
We need some more (wo)man power.

We're working on sharing/collaboration features of Memex and would love to have your input!

Watch a quick rundown on some early mockups:
https://loom.com/share/5d9173ccf63a4865a99c84481abd5347

We'd love to have you for a 30-min call to get a grip on your use cases:

Ready to give StorexHub a whirl!
Take @hypothes_is
 annotations, and bookmark the pages in memex so that they will show up as a liked page in memex and be indexed
Add Page notes to Memex that link to hypothesis annotations

https://github.com/westoncb/mymex

Mymex[0] is an application designed for quick retreival of information from a variety of (web/local) data sources. One of its main goals is to make pieces of information located on the web easier and more reliable to return to. It does this by:
    automatically storing local renderings of web resources
    allowing tags and notes to be attached to web resources

• interesting domains are highlighted
  
• users on which profiles I clicked before are highlighted (so I'm likely to pay attention to their posts)
  
• posts I've seen before are highlighted (so I get to boost them hopefully to discuss later)
  

https://mek.fyi/#about-me

Historia (Provenance) #chrome-extension

fuck me! Some very similar goals

this would be a good demo for 'mark visited'

I think I've figured out how to read hackernews 'new' page

Error: The storage API will not work with a temporary addon ID. Please add an explicit addon ID to your manifest. For more information see https://bugzil.la/1323228.

Installed it and it seemed to work! But it was spammy in the console and I'm doing webdev, so I had to uninstall it. Would reinstall if you could silence the debug stuff

ugh fuck

https://github.com/scriptmasters/unitest/blob/master/%7E/.e2e-chrome-profile/Default/History

if 'most' of page matches, then highlight is prob. wrong?

test it on a fresh docker

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I've implemented this (augmented sidebar) and it's quite hard to come up with something that works well for all sites. You quickly run into sites which don't reflow, assuming a certain layout. But that was years ago. Responsive design is a lot more common these days so might work

Before installing filemagic, the libmagic library will need to be availabile. To test this is the check for the presence of the file command and/or the libmagic man page.

I remember using this software last time, it is wayyyy~ too buggy, it stalls, crashes, and slows down the browser. Also that import feature is actually crawling the site, beware if you are using a proxy or something with rate limit.

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/digital-tools
potentially good example of highlights
also they don't look quite well in dark mode?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=grblovrflowerrr&next=17598881

j2kun on June 1, 2018 [-]
How is this like the demo? This looks like "unify all N productivity apps; now I have N+1 productivity apps!"

also use some guessing magic to quickly disable it? could test on https://pinboard.in/popular/
or just hide stuff that linked more than once on the page?

https://github.com/l3kn/org-fc

drill

very nice, apparently ran into that guy on merveilles and was able to track it in search!

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?m=201604
maybe, make the notification more subtle?

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/?q=gree
constantly reloads on this page :(

https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
Use this thing?

https://tuxspace.net/@Qwxlea
check when pages are not available…

https://github.com/lukeed/tinydate

https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete#on-seeing-through-and-unseeing
anchors are good examples of 'direct' visits and siblings?

chrome:// (history/apps/newtab
  newtab is interesting data though!

Several times in the past few weeks I or an acquaintance read something awesome only to realize we'd read it years ago & simply forgot! Another use for 'anti-spaced repetition' (https://t.co/jD4SsY6VBW): track great stuff & remind you to re-read it only 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 it's forgotten.

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1104879445368864773

https://pinboard.in/u:tswaterman/t:math/
I definitely need to integrate promnesia crawling with webpages backups, that way I'd have way more context

Example a complete guide for tagging

switching frames works fine on https://web.hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/
though

https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist

https://twitter.com/lisyarus/status/1104104035588755457

https://superuser.com/questions/1114637/does-firefox-ship-with-a-new-default-for-history-expires-after

places.history.expiration.max_pages is maximum number of pages that are retained before pages are expired.
I had system disk fil

https://deliveroo.co.uk/menu/london/farringdon/best-mangal-farringdon
allow breaking down important and unimportant schema parts from extensions?

looks sort of messy. should collapse and somehow make more unique…

media_embed only got html
secure_media_ contains more stuff and could actually be useful

ugh. some have both media and secure_media??

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/6c34b3c3c96756b6db7ff2f3a0394472d81cde3e/platform/webext/manifest.json

"optional_permissions": [
   "file:///*"
 ],

in debugger looks like code just starts running at for (const action of (await actions()))

looks like some visits duplicate; and also they aren't grouped

https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html#org000001b

https://github.com/fabianonline/telegram_backup

fabianonline/telegram_backup

clicking on title causes page reloading, also shows notification etc. a bit spammy. I guess for now having setting to prevent context notification is OK

Like ft, technology review

https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

Loggi

pretty slow on thins page… I guess highlights

https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/blob/master/src/promnesia/indexers/hypothesis.py

# TODO what I really need is my hypothesis provider... is it possible to share somehow?
for x in annotations:

I think I need to figure out how to make them standalone basically? Need some sort of defensive policy for dependencies?

http://127.0.0.1:8000/pkm-todos.html
bindSidebarData fails on quick refresh

I spend my life copy/pasting links and screenshots of interesting content to friends. Solving infrastructure level information-transfer problems like this is also core to accelerating human progress.
@shohinigupta built something amazing to solve this

https://twitter.com/WillManidis/status/1199337719295381509

but why did I follow them in the first place, there must have been good reason?

sqlite3 promnesia.sqlite 'SELECT norm_url, group_concat(src) FROM (SELECT norm_url, src FROM visits WHERE context != "" ORDER BY norm_url, src) GROUP BY norm_url'  | grep instapaper | grep notes | less

e.g. how did I get here?? https://mortoray.com/2019/06/11/a-failed-experiment-with-python-type-annotations/

http://neerc.ifmo.ru/wiki/index.php?title=%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8
not sure, shouldn't show popup on every transition… have a timer or something?

https://twitter.com/RobotAndAIWorld/status/1192429991813881856
should be handled, I liked/RTd it on twitter

www.services.online-banking.hsbc.co.uk

https://medium.com/@1522933668924/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-backups-with-code-examples-49186de94ab4
wow, someone managed to get whatsapp export working?

http://www.markwk.com/what-is-meditation.html
Highlight domain differently?

https://webpack.js.org/guides/code-splitting/

e.g. if the page is updated in the background (e.g. youtube video), do we want to refresh promnesia stats? although it's basically only limited to youtube

https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg
ran into twitter account recommendation (by michael nielsen, clicked it, found out I've already got few liked tweets by that guy

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('/home/xxx/.mozilla/firefox/abadadw.dev-edition-default')

https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems#w_checking-extension-settings

https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/issues/13

web-ext run --verbose in the extension folder

had some issues
changes were detected on touch, but not on build
clean plugin should be handling properly, i.e. keeping dist/ dir and only removing files
https://github.com/johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin/issues/106
tried commenting/uncommenting clean plugin, and then it stopped happening????

in the future, try to investigate it by going to dist/ dir and trying ls in terminal

Codejar/codemirror – let the user choose the editor
Linkify – third party link hihlighter
What else???

I think this part is a little off:
> Perhaps you have no sympathy for web applications that store sensitive data in query strings, as that’s widely recognized as an insecure pattern. The URL fragment is more serious. That otherwise is a safe way to store sensitive information, so it’s alarming to see a third-party library sending a copy to an external server.
> Firefox Send and Mega.nz are both examples of popular web apps that use the URL fragment to store client-side encryption keys so that users can save end-to-end encrypted files to the cloud without the server ever having access to the underlying data.
The URL fragment is not designed to be any more secure than anything else in the URL, it's just a funny quirk of how web browsers evolved that it doesn't happen to be sent to the webserver. That popular platforms are (mis)using it to pass information without that information hitting their webservers is unfortunate. But it doesn't mean that the URL Fragment is somehow special or should be thought of as "secure" - that's not a guarantee that the URL scheme makes.
For example, those fragments will easily appear in browser history for anyone else who uses your same device...

https://github.com/raxod502/mercury

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397667

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290016

maybe icons for mobile/desktop?

I mean not sure what I feel about it. it's very adhoc in the first place, and still requires some hardcoded knowledge about useful and useless fields. I suppose not worth it at this stage

could make a screenshot from a test_chromevisits test

I have been using Memex for more than a year now. Here are the things that really annoy me
- occasional freezing and sudden disappearance of your bookmarks
- no real way to programmatically access your Memex database. I know they have released the storage backend, but the lack of helpful documentation is a deal-breaker.
- lack of collaborative annotation (the way Hypothesis does)
- only few results in search results!

"omnibox": {
    "keyword": "m"
},

nice idea…

Maybe a big lesson is that I need to write about ideas, frustrations and experiments earlier.
I could have released promnesia on hn a year ago and by now could repost again! Crazy!

Hmmm. I guess src map is going to be js hook for dynamically transforming visits? Provide a small dsl

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/marionette/Intro.html

shit.. wonder if it could happen because of messing with window. or something??

usecase: find all occurences of the bug in your code (e.g. if it got fixed)

not great here

imagine if this information was available to you instead
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
in context

I bumped on this post today while I was trying to find the solution for the org capture protocol. It's been a while since you posted it, but no one posted the solution, so I guess this might be helpful.
The thing is that any new protocol must be introduced by clicking on the link instead of passing the address to the location bar directly. Once you connect the new protocol with the app it will work regularly.
* Go to `about:config`
* Add new boolean named `network.protocol-handler.expose.tg` and set it to `false`
* Create the link by opening an empty tab and typing the following in the location bar
`data:text/html,<a href="tg://resolve?domain=Bold">Link</a>`
* Click on Link and Firefox should ask you to choose the program
* Check the box in order to remember it for future use

No idea about the service, but I do have experience with Chrome extensions if that’s what you mean

There is a rule in eslint that warns you when a promise is dangling and hasn't been handled.

PLEASE USE THAT RULE. So many bugs in the JS world is because of dangling promises.

Via Twitter?)
For the last ~6 months I am developing a Chrome extension at work, can take a look as well.

• floating sidebar. make the position configurable, so it doesn't overlap with other potential extensions
  
• hmm. for firefox it knows the time spent?? I wonder how
  uhoh. seems like it's keeping track via js… https://github.com/posobin/ampie/blob/da50f2c5abc1b59de2fc8379b13c7d6d813577e7/src/main/ampie/content_script/amplify.cljs#L328
  
• site icons – although not sure how to extract them.. from the browser history?
  def site icons for sources? Could specify sources favicons in js config, maybe
  
• moz-extension://d55e97e7-da63-4685-a3bc-dffc93092eb4/hello.html – very nice… perhaps could include promnesia tutorial
  
• list of all links on the page – nice!