[matt_f]

Interesting side note:

It seems like a lot of people in this thread have an interest in retaining a "replayable timeline" of their own browsing/reading history.

There's probably enough support here to gather a few contributors for an open source project.

[hobo_mark]

I seem to remember Google's Larry Page once proposed a similar thing in the early days, a product that would record all you read on your computer (to make it searchable later), but now I can't find it mentioned anywhere, am I imagining things?

[nikisweeting]

A "remember everything for me" tool is often called a "Memex" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

[dgeiser13]

If you use Google Chrome as your primary browser this exists at https://myactivity.google.com/item

[nikisweeting]

There are a bunch of projects trying to do different flavors of this already, check out some of these:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...