/Memex

Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

WorldBrain's Memex

A browser extension that lets you create, search and eventually share your personal web of knowledge

  • Full-Text-Search all websites you visited and bookmarked
  • Filter by time, domain or custom tags
  • Use Memex alongside your favorite search-engine Support for Google and DuckDuckGo.
  • Full Data Privacy All data is stored and processed on your own computer and will never ever ever EVER be shared or used without your consent. Here at WorldBrain, we are highly concerned about your privacy and security please see our privacy policy for more details.

Lookout for these exciting new features in the future:

  • Add notes, comments and links to similar valuable resources
  • Automatically Rate how useful you perceive the websites you visit based on your interactions with it.
  • Integrate with all your favorite services such as Facebook, Evernote and Twitter.
  • Sync with all of your browsers, smart-phones, tablets, smart-fridges, electric cars, space-ships etc.
  • Discover new content that has high value in your network
  • Diversify the content you find by looking through great sources on the opposite side of your 'value' system. Break out of your 'filter bubble'

More on that on our website: worldbrain.io

Table Of Content

  1. Project Status
  2. How it Works
  3. Contact
  4. License + Privacy Policy
  5. See also

Separate Docs

  1. Contributing
  2. Code Overview
  3. In Depth How it Works

Project Status

Memex is available for Chrome and Firefox and no breaking changes are expected anytime soon. It's under active development by our wonderful team, including 3 GSoC students.

Next Features:

  • Create Hyperlinks to highlights in the text of websites
  • Comments, Annotations
  • Custom Lists: Add page(s) to list(s)

If your a developer Please see Contributing!

Have questions?

How the WorldBrain Extension Works

As you browse through websites WorldBrain will work automatically in the background see our intro video for more information. When you are ready to search through your history follow the steps below.

  1. Go to the address bar of your browser
  2. Type w + space_bar
  3. Now simply type in your search query and the results will show below.

Contact

Find us in our Team chat or contact us via email.

Feedback, Questions or Concerns

How can we make our extension better?

Please email: feedback@worldbrain.io or drop by our team chat and post a message in #general

Feature Requests

Request any new features you may want to see!

Please either create a new issue or send us a message in the team chat in the #feature_request channel!

Bugs and Issues

Is the extension acting funny? Something not working properly or seems off?

Please create a new issue

License + Privacy Policy

MIT Licensed see License

Privacy Policy

We truly care about your privacy. So our privacy policy is as simple as we can make it.

We will never retain or sell your data. It is actually impossible for us to do so as all of your data is kept on your local machine. :see_no_evil::hear_no_evil::speak_no_evil:

See also

External resources

Thanks to

Sentry.io for offering free error tracking to open-source projects and generally having an awesome product

BrowserStack for helping us face the complexity of building a quality tool that has to work with many different kinds of devices.

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