<story><title>Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?</title><text>My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.&lt;p&gt;I want to do the same thing for my web browser. At first I looked at Memex but they disabled browser history search. You have to save or annotate an article first before it becomes searchable. My brain, naturally, does not know ahead of time what could be useful in the future.&lt;p&gt;Is there any product out there that creates a fully searchable full-text history forever with little fuss?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using Firefox on Linux but could switch to another browser (but not OS) if needed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Hey. My project Diskernet does this: full text search over browser history.&lt;p&gt;Put it in &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; mode when using Chrome (linux is fine) and it automatically saves every page you browse (so you can read it offline), and also indexes it for full text search. It&amp;#x27;s a work in progress and there are bugs (so my advice initialize a git repo in your archive directory, and make regular syncs to a remote in case of failure -- that also gives you a nice snapshotted archive).&lt;p&gt;Anyway, best of luck to you! :)&lt;p&gt;Diskernet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt;22120 is licensed under Polyform Strict License 1.0.0 (no modification, no distribution).&lt;p&gt;So this is basically Freeware &amp;#x2F; Shareware in the old days but with Source available? i.e not Open Source as defined by OSS. Do we have a term for it? Shared Source? I know Microsoft tried to use it but it was early 2000 anything M$ did at the time were extremely unpopular.&lt;p&gt;Will be trying this out soon because I just realise either half of the internet in the past 10 years have eroded, or Google simply cant search something I am sure I read about it 6-7 years ago.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?</title><text>My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.&lt;p&gt;I want to do the same thing for my web browser. At first I looked at Memex but they disabled browser history search. You have to save or annotate an article first before it becomes searchable. My brain, naturally, does not know ahead of time what could be useful in the future.&lt;p&gt;Is there any product out there that creates a fully searchable full-text history forever with little fuss?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using Firefox on Linux but could switch to another browser (but not OS) if needed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Hey. My project Diskernet does this: full text search over browser history.&lt;p&gt;Put it in &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; mode when using Chrome (linux is fine) and it automatically saves every page you browse (so you can read it offline), and also indexes it for full text search. It&amp;#x27;s a work in progress and there are bugs (so my advice initialize a git repo in your archive directory, and make regular syncs to a remote in case of failure -- that also gives you a nice snapshotted archive).&lt;p&gt;Anyway, best of luck to you! :)&lt;p&gt;Diskernet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;crisdosyago&amp;#x2F;Diskernet&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danuker</author><text>The claims are impressive: that the network requests are saved, not the document after the page is loaded. I will certainly give it a try!&lt;p&gt;One downside: only works with Chrome-based browsers. Perhaps a way to implement this more generally is as a proxy server.</text></comment>