How do I install this?
You'll have to do this for now: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/get-started/tut...
we were gonna get it published on the web store after some initial feedback
Readit NewsCurious how this works. I've experimented with in-browser vector search using victor[1] with mixed results. Hadn't heard of this orama lib before checking out your project.
So the extension scrapes all your bookmarks' content, selects key parts of it (we have a naive heuristic for now), embeds them using Sentence Transformer, and indexes them in the browser local storage with Orama's vector DB. When you want to search, we embed the query and do a vector search against the index to get the semantically most similar ones. All in-browser so no data going to any API.
Didn't try victor, is that just for nodejs runtime or does it run at the edge as well? Orama's been pretty good, at least semantically. Haven't done any speed benchmarking so not sure if it's as fast as say HNSW.
Sounds really interesting, and I'd also love a Firefox version :)
Will try to make one soon!
This is great but I want just simple full text search on all the history. Not title and url search, but full text. If it has semantic embeds on top, all the better. I am losing too many of the things I find.
Wondering why browsers neglected bookmarks and search history so much. They never progressed in the last 2 decades. Storage is cheap, computers are fast and multi-core, yet we live with the mentality of paucity and don't save our digital crumbs.
Thank you! Yeah history is something we've been asked multiple times now. I'm sure this could be extended easily once we solve a few things (scraping pages faster and being smarter about what text we embed, parsing out irrelevant stuff). Will keep you posted.
I also built such an extension half a year ago [0]. The first iteration was a local-first natural-language full-text search for the browser history [1]. The second iteration was focusing on bookmarks [2].
None of these could spark enough interest to get feedback on what users want. I am sharing this experience so that you may study my attempt, if you want.
Thank you! Will take a look at these. We mostly made this to solve something for ourselves and as a learning exercise, but hoping this may resonate with others too
EDIT: And the popup doesn't do anything at all. Can see no js included in popup.html.