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! :)
>>>>
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