Yeah, time.is supported that for a long time and was extremely useful for me.
isn't supported anymore?
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quambene commented on Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks github.com/quambene/bogre... · Posted by u/quambene
This is a bit late.. but a lot of PKM-scene are using bookmarkers and readers with offline webpage saving and search already. I suppose this is enough support as a lot of scene seems more interested in optimizing the information organization tooling experience that comes with the separate apps and bookmarking formats.
I think these sorts of automated personal knowledge gathering systems are an under developed concept. There is things going on though with projects like Spyglass which does local website indexing and search.
Spyglass looks interesting, providing a unified search GUI for which I use a bunch of CLI search tools (ripgrep, ripgrep-all, and now bogrep) as well as some simple bash scripts.
Somehow I still prefer some CLI-based tooling though which I can configure as needed instead of a fully-fledged GUI-based solution.
quambene commented on Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks github.com/quambene/bogre... · Posted by u/quambene
Are you talking about rewind.ai? (no affiliation) I have been eyeing the service, I tried the free version and it was pretty amazing. But I can't bring myself to pay the $30/mo. Hoping somehow they offer this for $10/mo someday.
"Rewind compresses, transcribes, encrypts, and stores your data locally so only you have access." sounds good.
Was your CPU usage ok when running the background service?
quambene commented on Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks github.com/quambene/bogre... · Posted by u/quambene
Sorry for the derail!
bogrep + everything (windows filesystem search) + the screenshot "service" - i'm about 80% sure it was a service and not self-hosted - would completely obviate the need to remember anything ever again! It would also eliminate the hassle of firefox or chrome "forgetting" my bookmarks every few years in an apparently random fashion.
I've been having HN "dropbox" moments about this... how hard can it be? I've hacked together OCR to use my phone to control my icom ic-7100 - the person who makes/sells the bluetooth serial ports compatible with icom Ci-V was out during the pandemic, and before, when i needed one, so i wired a raspberry pi to the Ci-V port, enabled BT file transfers on the pi, and using repeaterbook on the phone with GPS i could find the info page for a nearby repeater, do the 2 finger screenshot, hit share, and the pi would OCR it and get the frequency and offset. I never bothered to extract the PL tone frequency, because my radio can find that quickly on an active repeater.
So there's a workflow, and i have spare machines to do the OCR and inserting into solr (or whatever).
Interesting setup! Personally, I would be cautious to use such a screenshot service though. Even if self-hosted, it could screenshot credentials, environment files, and my password manager for example, which would then be stored in plaintext somewhere?
So I would rather prefer to "keep control" by using a search utility when needed instead of scanning the background permanently.
quambene commented on Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks github.com/quambene/bogre... · Posted by u/quambene
Does anyone remember the name of the service or similar software that takes a screenshot every N seconds and runs OCR on it, so that you can search everything you saw on your screen at any time?
I remember HN balked at the cost.
A combination of that and this would make my life so much better, i think. That or giving away all of my computers.
Using Bogrep, I could only find https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/ in my bookmarks which is a bit related, but doesn't seem to be what you're looking for.
quambene commented on Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks github.com/quambene/bogre... · Posted by u/quambene
Simple but fine idea. Wonder why nobody in the "PKM-scene" came up with this before.
Small suggestion: could you make it available for other package managers like homebrew, since not everyone has the rust tool chain installed?
Thanks, yep I'm currently working on proper support for Bogrep on macOS.
quambene commented on My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use androidauthority.com/g-su... · Posted by u/SethMurphy
My partner and I have found that us logging into multiple devices with the same account is much more supported. We have a shared password manager and email router setup. So us@domain.net gets forwarded to both our gmail accounts. I have the "send as" feature setup for us@domain.net as well.
So we effectively have a custom domain in gmail, for sending and receiving.
As far as the internet is concerned we are one entity with multiple devices.
Forwarding is clear, but how did you set up the "send as" feature?
We sat down at the Stammtisch.
The waitress kindly told us that we should move. Then everybody in the place was kind of cold to us, until someone picked up from our conversation that we were from the US. The waitress tentatively asked: "Are you Americans?" Yes. "Oh, we thought you were English." All of the sudden the whole place warmed up to us, and they even brought us complimentary glasses of the house liqueur, which I can tell you was quite potent.
I don't know why they liked Americans better than English, and we didn't press the matter.