Posted by bookofjoe 17 hours ago
One of the most useful use cases for me, especially since I work in GTM, is keeping track of new ways to get replies from prospects, whether through cold outbound or things like SEO/GEO optimization. I read at least 2-3 articles a day on this, and it genuinely helps me figure out which ideas are worth trying because I can now keep track of everything I’ve read.
I also have it index my Obsidian notes, which is another little bonus for global search.
I did need to build up quite a few exclusion rules early on, but it's been hands off since.
I like the search ui. my projects become functional but never polished. https://github.com/sbeckeriv/memoir
[1] https://git.brucewillis.sexy/~tombert/fs_index I promise, safe for work, despite the URL.
I like it.
Is there any site/project that works as a fully customizable personal front-end to all other SERPs?
When I search for something, I always want a link to the best Wikipedia result. This should always be in the same place and have a giant icon/picture.
Then there could be easily clickable links to the SERP pages for Google, DDG, etc. for that query.
A big link to route it to your favorite LLM.
Seems like you could have a really useful "homepage" for all searches that sat in front of all the other sites. It could be local only and would not require indexing the web. Also wouldn't be a files search thing, as Hister appears to be.
Every single web page I’ve found interesting, since the advent of the Web, I have printed to PDF and stored locally for my own personal reference.
Something like 80,000+ files - my own copy of my own Internet - indexable, searchable.
Available offline. Something to read when I am far out to sea.
There is no need to involve third parties in your Internet history - no matter how trustworthy they seem to want to appear.
Print to PDF, and you’ve got everything you need, safe and sound.
The more "modern" the site, the worse it is. Surprisingly, government websites often print correctly since they've done the least amount of work to make the site modern looking.
Reader mode.
Even full page screenshot doesn’t always capture the non visible part of the page (below the viewport).
$ pdfgrep -r -i -n -H "your mom" ~/PDFArchives/
Very effective, very fast, very private. Bonus points if the PDF filename itself is derived from a well formulated <title> tag, such that you can just use “ls” ..