An open-source and privacy focused extension to easily annotate, organise and share your online research.
FEATURES:
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🔍 Full-text search pages and PDFs you annotated or bookmarked.
📝 Highlight and Annotate Websites & PDFs
🗄 Flexible organisation: Tag & Sort pages into collections + tab manager
🌎 Share and discuss collections of pages and notes with others. [BETA]
🔗 Link to highlights and annotations [BETA]
📱 Across devices: Save, View & organise your knowledge on iOS and Android
⚡️ Quick onboarding. No signup necessary. Import from every major bookmarking service
😎 Offline-first. All data is stored on your device. Full Privacy & Open-Source
⛅ Backup your data to any of your favourite cloud providers
View our privacy policy: https://worldbrain.io/privacy
HOW TO USE
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🔍 Search: Type in ‘m’ followed by pressing the ‘space’ bar or tab in the address bar.
📝 Annotate: Highlight any piece of text and right click
🗄O rganise: Move with the mouse to the right side of the screen, or click on the little ‘brain’ icon in the extension bar
FEEDBACK and TROUBLESHOOTING
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To leave bug reports and feature requests: worldbrain.io/help
Support email: [email protected]
Chat with the team: worldbrain.io > the chat bubble in the bottom right corner
If Memex causes issues, there is this trick as old as computer service people are around:
Have you tried restarting the extension? 🤓
You can do so via chrome://extensions.
If a problem persists, keep the extension deactivated and drop by in our help section (above).
When deactivated then does not need RAM or CPU.
originally reviewed as 5 stars, but they killed it.
I have pretty severe memory issues, and this was great.
it allowed me to find any page i had ever visited, as long as i had a general idea of what i wanted to find again, literally only needed to remember one word from the page, and it would be in the search.
I also read a lot of articles about different things, and of course, i forget instantly. 6 months later, i’d think of something, and want to find that exact page again, this made it easy.
they deleted that feature, it no longer indexes pages you visit. (this isnt a bug, they intentionally removed it), so this extension is now useless.
all the 5 star reviews you see here are for a feature that no longer exists.
this is freaking incredible.
Hey guys, cool extension. Can I annotate PDFs? I tried it but doesn’t seem to work for me.
I have been using memex from july of this year and it has had a huge improvement in workflow. It is a must have for any privacy enthusiast or a researcher.
Memex removed the full text history search, which was the whole reason I used the app. Sadly I relied on Memex to retrieve certain information I had once browsed so now I have no way of finding these pages again.
Sadly, their plans for this extension abruptly shifted recently, so this no longer indexes pages you visit (history). It only searches bookmarked pages and your annotations. They also are primarily focusing on “collaborations,” which I have no interest.
I’ve been following the project for several years. While this was a good idea, it seems to take them forever to make progress. And when they do, like the excellent full-text searching of visited (but not bookmarked) pages, they actually make negative progress by changing direction.
In the meantime, I’ve found a couple of other extensions that provide similar functionality, as far as displaying visited sites/gmails on the Google search results page, which is my main reason for using it.
There’s also a major danger here: This doesn’t automatically back up your data to Google Drive unless you pay. So you need to remember to backup your data yourself regularly or you’ll lose at least your annotations if you have a major crash.
Could you suggest a way the annotations could be rearranged? I tried but all the annotations were saved in reverse order based on time which meant the last annotation in the article comes on top and thereon.This doesnt seem to make sense and renders it useless.
Also, is there no way of changing the highlight colour which is too glaring and stress-inducing…
I’ve been searching for this app for years. This is one of the most exciting projects I’ve found in a long time. Just installed, and everything is working great. Excited to make this a regular part of my workflow.
为什么取消了划词弹出的功能,双击词语还是会弹出,受不了
经常性搜不出来
I just want to say to anyone deciding on whether to get this or not, get this – it is excellent! There were a couple two star reviews for very specific issues, but the extension has amazing functionality and truly is part of a new breed of web apps. The team has really thought through how our browsing has evolved. Traditional bookmarks and history pages are no longer sufficient for the modern web user/researcher. They have a well-developed roadmap and great new features coming up (and they used Notion for making their support/tutorial/user guide pages).
To the team: I can’t wait for the mobile app! I do have a feature request/question, though. I would really like to save a session (or a window) and put the session in a collection with other sessions. So, for instance, if you were working on Project X, you could save several sessions (or windows) under that topic. It would basically be adding another layer.
(And lastly I am having trouble saving “all tabs.” I watched the “Add many tabs” Gif and thought I did exactly what was done in the instructions. When adding tags to “all tabs,” after selecting the desired tag(s), I then click “Back” and then open the dashboard to see they aren’t there. Am I supposed to hit “Back” after selecting the tags?)
-Thanks Worldbrains.io team!
5 stars all day until it stopped working 3 months ago, still not fixed. will change to 5 stars once its working again and i can get what i paid for.
Not working so well.
1. Importing causes google to show captcha page.
2. Imported number is greater than anticipated.
3. Search result rank is not good.
4. No duplicate page detection, different url with same content is shown twice
一直在找这样一个工具,以后开始探索看看有多好用
Hey guys.
If you use Bash and Terminal, you can try a little Bash Script I made. Once you have a URL list, which is easy to make through Chrome history/bookmark manager or by the terminal itself, the script will visits each URL and scrape the full-text page. Actually, it accesses webpages with cURL/Wget and uses Grep and regular expressions to search for matches.
You can get a help page running the script with the flçag “-h”. If you want to check:
GitHub link: https://github.com/mountaineerbr/scripts/blob/master/urlgrep.sh
It works differently than WorldBrain’s Memex extension in that this script does not index visited pages randomly/bubbly, and you can use this script with your current history/bookmarks right away.
Cheers!
After Genius, this is the best web knowledge management app I have ever use. High recommend it! 🔥
This is a fantastic app! The future of note taking! Evernote watch out!
Really ambitious app which has been backing that up with solid progress. Really mature approach and plan, and once mobile apps and to-read features are ready this will be THE app
很好用
The newest version updated at June 24th seems mining at the background, it makes my fan burst and my CPU usage very high
WIN7按住W+空格键貌似没有用
Unfortunately it does not handle numbers. I remembered visiting a webpage with some phone numbers, and I remember one of the numbers, but it does not show up in search result. If I manually go over my history I can find it, and surely it is indexed. Seems like this extension does not care for number. Too bad.
Создает базу полных текстов на основе закладок браузера и, на выбор, по истории посещения. Если у вас много интересных закладок, то получается свой небольшой гугл. Аннотации это не основной функционал, как я понял.
This is the best extension you can come across for your bookmarking, web history and research purposes if you are an ordinary student like me, reading articles and watching videos etc. It is way faster to use due to its keyboard shortcuts .
Great for finding a page you once visited, thanks to full-text search. Simple to use for annotating and highlighting important passages on any website. Top: 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
не подсвечивает текст прямо на странице. не показывает заметку при наведении на текст. бесполезно для меня