Hi Nick, Thanks for this wonderful extension. It provides the missing functionality that I have always wished browser can have.
However, I have a concern about the privacy, since it stores the inverted index on remote server. Have you consider making it store the index locally? -Ribao Wei On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Johnny: Awesome! Glad you're interested! > > Sotonin: To the best of my knowledge, Chrome doesn't handle your bookmarks > the same way that this extension does. Foundit doesn't try to provide any > sort of synchronizing solution; it acts on your browser's local set of > bookmarks (whether they're synced or not), and it's purpose is solely to > improve searching your bookmarks, by querying your search phrase against > the content of each page you saved. (Chrome itself only matches your search > against the URL and title of your bookmarks). > > Sorry if my previous description didn't make that clear! > > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 5:21:42 PM UTC-4, shawn wilson wrote: > >> Well, if I'm reading the description correctly, chrome doesn't search the >> contents of the page afaik - just the url and title. >> On Oct 5, 2012 4:00 PM, "Kevin Holland" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Doesn't google chrome sync do exactly that? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Setiaji Kurniawan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Nick, >>> >>> This project come to me as in the right time. As i work in 2 different >>> place, so i got to save each bookmarks every time i make changes. Long ago >>> there is delicious site, save bookmarks in their cloud. Ill try your >>> tools... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all! >>>> >>>> I just built a chrome extension that scrapes and indexes your bookmarks >>>> so you can search them later by the content of your saved pages rather than >>>> by the url or title of the bookmark you saved it under. >>>> >>>> It's a pretty simple idea, and I'm not trying to shamelessly promote >>>> it; it's also open source, and I'm posting here in hopes of finding anyone >>>> interested enough in the idea to help me make it better. >>>> >>>> If you're interested check it out here: https://github.com/nick-** >>>> thompson/Foundit <https://github.com/nick-thompson/Foundit> >>>> >>>> The extension talks to a Node.js app hosted on Nodejitsu, which does >>>> all of the web scraping and builds an inverted index that the user later >>>> queries, and the rest of it is pretty simple client-side javascript. >>>> >>>> Thanks! :) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List- >>>> **Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *- setiaji -* <http://setiaji.wordpress.com> >>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List-* >>> *Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >>> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List-* >>> *Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >>> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>> >> -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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