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nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

Glad you liked it!

We haven’t added a UI for it yet, but you can actually change the hotkey by editing ~/.config/persistory/config.edn and changing the :quick_search entry (CommandOrControl+E by default) to your desired keyboard binding.

This functionality comes from electron, more info on the hotkey syntax in their docs [0]. Definitely don’t want to be getting in the way of your PyCharming!

[0]: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/accelerator#available-mo...

nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

Hey wuyishan, right now it isn’t able to retrieve the full text of content that’s behind login walls, but we are looking at ways to allow it to handle those sites as well

nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

Yup! Specifically we extract the full text for each website 8 URLs at a time right now, but you can still search over the titles and URLs while the full text is being collected

nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

We won’t :) Linux support will probably happen first because it’s closer to mac and easier to build for, but Windows support is definitely on the list

nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

Hey WA, Nik here, thanks for the suggestions. Showing the date ranges is a good idea, and we’d also like to make what’s shown in the search results more configurable since we have some potentially interesting metadata there (date last visited, date we downloaded the full text etc.)

We do keep a fairly complete copy of the URL’s contents in the db, though we don’t currently preserve all the html or store embedded content such as images, so some formatting may be lost. Adding a method to view the stored version from the GUI is definitely on the todo list though, we want that feature too!

Being flexible and able to fit into a lot of workflows is high priority for us, if you have more thoughts on how it could more easily fit into your workflow please feel free to let us know here or on the discord

nikvdpon Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history

Hey shmapf, Nik here. I know what you mean, Alfred is a great tool.

We’ll be adding an option to run in the taskbar rather than as a full-fledged app-with-dock-icon soon to help with this —- being able to do everything fast and from the keyboard (including switching apps) is high priority for us