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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I'm developing a tool to quickly collect and retrieve online discoveries and would like to hear your opinions! (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well! As an indie developer, I've been working on a software tool that aims to solve a problem that I personally face. I'd really appreciate your thoughts and opinions on it within our community.

Being someone who spends a lot of time browsing the internet, whether it's for work projects, finding new recipes, or staying up to date with tech and media news, I often come across content or website that I want to save or refer back to later.

However, the traditional methods of bookmarking and clipping content have their limitations. Having a long list of bookmarks makes it difficult to find what I need, and storing clipped pages takes up a lot of space in my notes.

That's why I'm developing a tool called Mark Kit. It's designed to make it quick and easy to collect internet content, such as articles, software tools, recipes, and other valuable resources. Instead of saving the entire page, Mark Kit is akin to an advanced iteration of the bookmark bar. Regardless of the website or web page on the Internet, once collected, we automatically classify it for you.
The more importantly is to make content retrieval even more convenient, I'm planning to incorporate AI technology for content recognition. This means that even if you can't remember the specific details, a basic description of what you're looking for will help Mark Kit quickly find the relevant content.

I'm curious if any of you have faced similar challenges or if you have any suggestions to improve my idea?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love the idea! questions... will the saved page be available even if the actual website changes its content or url path?

will the saved page be like a pdf format, selectable text & images, with layout preserved?

honestly thats the problem that this tool might solve for me because what I find is that i had saved some recipe url & then when i go back to it its not there anymore...

so then now as a preemptive i usually screnshot it or download the images etc. then it becomes a disorganised mess be cause some of it is in pocket some in my local, some in pinterest etc.

the ai part is handy to have but doesn't apply to me as I'm still quite organised. so an opt out for that feature is indeed a must have for privacy concerned users.

also the data should be locally stored with option to connect & sync with cloud service of choice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Saving the snapshots of web pages is one of our plans. Personally, I have collected a lot of useful content, but sometimes, when I revisit them after a while, some of them are no longer available. This is indeed a significant problem.

Our AI does not involve any privacy-related issues. It solely focuses on automatically categorizing and filtering publicly available web page content. However, if anyone has concerns about the AI functionality, I believe providing an option to disable it would be a good choice.

I also love food and have collected many recipes. It's great to meet you too!