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by pseudo_meta 957 days ago
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?
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rifty 955 days ago
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.

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quambene 955 days ago
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.

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quambene 957 days ago
Thanks, yep I'm currently working on proper support for Bogrep on macOS.
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cxr 957 days ago
> Wonder why nobody in the "PKM-scene" came up with this before.

They have. Many, many, many, many, many times.

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pseudo_meta 957 days ago
could you post some examples? The only implementations I remember were quite hard to setup, buggy, and/or user-unfriendly UIs.
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cxr 957 days ago
No thanks. You have moved the goalposts from "nobody[...] came up with this before" to "implementations I remember were quite hard to setup, buggy, and/or user-unfriendly", and I generally have a policy to disengage at that point.
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pseudo_meta 957 days ago
"Moving the goalpost", "disengage at this point"? I was simply interested to find out if there are decent apps for that. Oo

First post meant "nobody came up with something fulfilling that goal in such a clean and simple way, at least not that I know off". Phrased a bit short cause I was on mobile, sorry. Not everyone on the internet is trying to win an argument. Was just curious to learn about apps I might not be familiar with.

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cxr 943 days ago
> Not everyone on the internet is trying to win an argument.

You're right. Not everyone is. You definitely were, though, when you wrote this comment.

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