History Search

Your filesystem for the web

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Your filesystem for the web

27 followers

With History Search you’ll be able to retrieve articles, open online documents, find emails or any other webpage using a phrase, comment or topic you remember. ✅ Available for Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari ❤️ Use PRODUCTHUNT25 for a 25% discount (valid Today and Tomorrow).

Launch tags:Safari Extensions•Browser Extensions•Web App

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Nice work! I would like to use it, even thought about developing something similar. Do you support an opt-in mode or something like that? For privacy reasons, it would be a dealbreaker for me, if it would just record everything that I do online. 99% of my use case would be to find something work related, that I looked at before, so a "click to include"-button would be ok for me. Something similar could also easily be implemented on iOS via share button.

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8yr ago

@martijn_verbove Thanks for sharing your prelaunch story, by the way. Must have felt good to put all that into words. ;) It was a good read!

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8yr ago

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@retendo Hey Oliver! Yes this is possible, you can simply login to the extensions, en pause it. This way it will ignore anything you do, then to add pages you can use the context menu and select "add to favorites" I think that would do the trick? Also keep in mind you are fully in control of you information, so if you delete records they're gone completely.

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8yr ago

@martijn_verbove Perfect, thanks! :) Will try this! @owenfar1 This might also answer part of your question, if I got it right.

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8yr ago

@martijn_verbove Feels great so far! Is there a hotkey to favorite a web page?

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8yr ago

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@retendo Thanks 😻Yeah here they are: https://docs.historysearch.com/t...

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8yr ago

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Hi Hunters! I’m Martijn, one of the makers of History Search. Many of us visit thousands of webpages every month; to work on documents, send emails, read articles, attend team meetings, and for everything else really. However, we’ve totally accepted that the best way to keep track of 1000s of webpages is to bookmark them one at a time. That’s why we thought, wouldn’t it be great if you could find anything you did online, the same way you can use keywords to find a document on your computer? After 3 years of hard-work and 1 year of beta testing we are ready to introduce History Search; the missing filesystem for the web. What History Search does, is index text on webpages while you browse, and it does this automatically, without requiring any additional efforts. This way you’ll be able to find anything you did online using your own words. ✅ Use anything you remember to find back articles, documents, or any other webpage ✅ Quickly find all information you saw about a specific topic ✅ Use visual previews to recognise products, documents or other webpages ✅ Export data to CSV to use and analyse it as you wish ✅ Encrypted cloud storage and synchronisation across all your browsers & devices ✅ Available for Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari Our first goal was to create a new technology that will work across practically every service on the web. During the next stages we will introduce ways for people to collaborate, and to make navigating back to information online even easier. 🔒We take security very seriously learn more about it on historysearch.com/security Get History Search for free now and help us revolutionise the way we work online! 😻🙏 -------- Fun Facts ⏳We started working on History Search back in 2015 🔬History Search has been tested in public-beta for an entire year ❤️There are currently over 3500 weekly active beta users 💫Last month we broke a million searches 😱History Search is among the first 100 companies to publish a browser extension in the Microsoft Store for Edge 🤙Attending Websummit 2018? We’d be very happy to meet anyone there so feel free to schedule a meeting with me here: https://calendly.com/martijn-v/w... -------- Offer History Search will allow anyone to search the 3000 most recently visited webpages for free, but to search older records an upgrade is required—just like Slack. More storage starts at 3.99 a/month. Finally, besides the free version that is available to everyone, we also have a special offer for Product Hunters. Today and tomorrow the annual subscription will available at a 25% discount off for the first year, with: PRODUCTHUNT25 (valid Today and Tomorrow).

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8yr ago

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@martijn_verbove 🙌

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8yr ago

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@rstankov 😻

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8yr ago

It sounds FANTASTIC! However, will it be available for phone use? I do most of my research and searching when I’m out and in between appointments instead of so much on my work computer! I really hope so cause it would REALLY be helpful!

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8yr ago

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@pvecchitto Hahah Fantastic sounds good 😌 haha thanks! 😻. We will definitely try to cover mobile as soon as we can, although there are certain restrictions atm, because mobile browser extensions are only just beginning. But we're on it 💪

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8yr ago

History Search is awesome 🤘 Why dig through the same Google result over and over again to find something. Well don't! History Search just runs the search through pages you actually visited and give you the search results you need. Researching or working with lots of information on daily basis? History Search is gonna save you more time than you could have imagined. Great work Martijn and team 🙏

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8yr ago

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@doefler Thanks Kim!!! 😻

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8yr ago

Annoying that there is no mobile version. But you should be able to view your computer browsing history via the website on your mobile device, right? (Even if it won’t record websites you’ve visited on that device) Er, no. What is really frustrating is that History Search have decided to use mobile browsers as a marketing opportunity (rather than a chance to give customers a service). So they have blocked the ability to view your browsing history and instead send you to a page trying to get you to send a reminder to yourself to sign up to the product (ironic, really, as it doesn’t work on the device you’re on that this point!) Now, I understand that it takes time develop a mobile version of an app like History Search. But in the mean time, you should give customers the chance to access their browsing history on a mobile browser, instead of using it as a marketing opportunity. That gives the impression that you really don’t care about your existing customers. Not a good look.

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6yr ago

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@terryramsey Hi Terry, I don't really see how us not having a mobile web-view means that we don't care about you and other users. It's actually quite the contrary, and the reason why we shield off the mobile site it to avoid confusion. Many users don't understand browser extensions very well, and allowing them to login/signup via mobile would give many the impression it works on mobile. We're a desktop-only application at the moment, and aside from our ambition to eventually support mobile, we absolutely don't claim to do so right now. On-top of that, this version of History Search is only a beta, and we're making huge changes at the moment, so if we would support mobile right now it would require us to dedicate resources (which are limited) to develop something we're likely to change. Anyways, thank you for taking the time to checkout History Search and hopefully you'll come back to us in the future once we're fully able to support your needs. Kind regards, Martijn

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6yr ago

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I just signed up to give it a try. It flows lovely, looks great and seems super useful. Nice one @martijn_verbove

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8yr ago

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@federicojorge Thanks Federico!! Very glad to hear that 🤩, looking forward to hear your feedback after using it a while.

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8yr ago

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@martijn_verbove are you planning on having live search? I mean the results updating as you type? That would help save time and improve your search as you see the results being displayed.

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8yr ago

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@federicojorge Sorry for late reply I missed this comment! But yes, "live" search (love the name btw) will be a feature we'll be adding coming period.

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8yr ago