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This. There was a post in HN last week, iirc, referring to just such a solution called ZenFetch (?). I would have adopted it in a heartbeat but they don’t currently have a means of exporting the source data you feed to it (should you elect it as your sole means of bookmarking, etc)


Hey there,

This is Gabe, the founder of Zenfetch. Thanks for sharing. We're putting together an export option where you can download all your saved data as a CSV and should get that out by end of week.


Seems like this would be a good tool to build lessons on - if you could share a "class" and export a link for others to then copy the class, and expand on the lesson/class/topic into their own AI. but as a separate "class" and not fully integrated to my regular history blob?

I want the ability to search all my downloaded files and organize them based on context within. Have it create a category table, and allow me to "put all pics of my cat in this folder, and upload them to a gallery on imgur."


We're working on the ability to share folders of your knowledge so that others can search/chat across them.

We've been thinking of this as a "subscription" to the creator's folder. Similar to how you might subscribe to a Spotify playlist


Consider using tar files for this. Lots of tooling (versioning, hashing, storage) around this already, and docker layers comes to mind.


Or aN RSS?


Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?


Installing an app for every courier firm you might receive a parcel from seems a bit much.


You mean everyone should install a piece of software from a company that appears to be ignorant about security?


And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues?

I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.


Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up?

But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me.

Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical.

> are expected to

I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens.

[0] https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a...


interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more


I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.


And where is this?


I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.


The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a foreighn service which you cannot use and you have to figure out the local one, are full of "news" also known as ads and do not allow you to select the dropoff location closest to you (go ups!). Sorry, /rant.


I feel like DHL is the “YOLO” of delivery companies. My stuff always arrives, somehow, despite the entire process seeming archaic.


Perhaps I’m not understanding how this stores data, but how do I retrieve source material after I give it to the app?

Eg. Let’s say I adopt Zenfetch, and start using it as the sole place where I keep bookmarks. Then, something happens such that I want to retrieve that original, principal, bookmark data.

How do I go about retrieving/exporting that?


We will enable an export data option soon where you can download a list of the bookmarks you saved to Zenfetch.

Our goal is not to become a vendor lock-in play. Instead, Zenfetch is a layer on top of your knowledge base goaled on helping you activate information that you forgot about.

If you're referring to being able to revisit bookmarks: from the dashboard, you can click on any of the articles to see the original article

Let me know if more clarity is needed


just a list of urls or the actual content?


Zenfetch will capture the actual content of those URLs (assuming they still exist and are accessible from your browser)


Not the original poster, but still not clear to me.

Say I mark a page that contains really usable information. For some reason, 2 months later that page goes offline because the domain was not renewed (or whatever). Some time after that happened, I need that information. Will I still be able to see the original content, or not?

Similar thing, I mark a page. The author updates the url with different content 2 months later. Some time after that happened, I need that information. Will I still be able to see the original content, or will I just find the new updated content?

I guess the question is: is a snapshot taken from the actual content at the time I mark it as interesting and can that snapshot be shown, or not?


Snapshot is taken from the actual content at that point in time. We haven’t enabled a reader format just yet where you could view the original text. Right now, clicking the card in the dashboard will redirect you to the URL.

If you were to chat with the article from the dashboard, it would be preserving the snapshotted content and leverage that information in the final answer (same with using the search functionality).


Clear, thanks!

I did not test it yet, but it looks like something that would be very useful for me. So, I will definitely try it.

I will add that me too, I have some concerns regarding the data being "locked" in your service, but I read in other comments that at some point it will be possible to create an export of some sort. When using this to carefully craft a knowledge base during months, it would be very painful if that is all lost when stopping the service for whatever reason.

As others asked, I would appreciate an Android/iOS app to register new content when reading something on the phone.

Regarding the pricing, it mentions a fixed price per month, but is there any limit on the amount of data that is uploaded (for example when uploading PDFs) ? Is there any limit on the amount of content in the knowledge base?


Appreciate that and yes in the absolute worst case, you can email us and we can manually export your data on your behalf.

We are using a fixed price today and have no restriction on storage. This might change in the future if costs scale, though it’s not an immediate priority and we’d be sure to communicate those changes well in advance.

Once you’re onboarded, feel free to message us with the in app support widget. It’s a direct line to the team slack and we tend to respond almost immediately


I am trying to create an account (using a gmail address as email address), but I do not receive a code through email. I already tried multiple times. Any idea what is going on?


Sorry about that, this happens sparingly with our auth provider.

It might take a couple of minutes. Would recommend checking spam or trying again in a bit


Neither does Texas


Louisiana is more fun


My wife's family is from Louisiana. I love visiting, the people are very warm and the food is great. But after 3 days I want to go back to Atlanta. Louisiana is a terrible place to live, unfortunately.


I find it not so bad compared to other places - Portland for example.


>You might have to pay for coffee at the office. And it may even be drip!

Uh, no. If you're paying for your own drip coffee, you're working at a convenience store, not in an office. Coffee is for closers and people who write software.


Forkish explicitly calls for an autolyze period in most of the bread recipes he presents in “Flour Water Salt Yeast.”


And yet, here we are.


> because they caught ppl doing it like that American spy in the 80s. > Are you referring to Robert Hanssen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen


This isn't ready for beta: no ability to delete logins, no ability to generate a new password or create a new login, no context menu, and not even a Cancel button for the user who starts to edit an entry and then realizes that they can't regenerate a password.


For those wondering why the USPS cannot turn a profit, Jon Oliver does an excellent job of explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ


Jon Oliver is a very partisan comedian and therefore cannot be trusted. And when I say ‘him’ I refer to the very politicized team of writers and their network.


At least he provides the references to the info that he presents. I assume that you did your research and the vast majority of the information he presented was verifiably false. Can you please share your findings with us ?


Watch literally any episode of Jon Oliver on something you've glanced at the Wikipedia article for, and his partisan bias is grossly apparent.

Guy you're replying to didn't really make an argument, no, but it's worth ridiculing someone for posting Jon Oliver, because it is a thing to be ridiculed. That's about as bad a linking to a Bill O'Reilly op-ed as far as I'm concerned.


Dismissing facts based on the accompanying commentary is fundamentally flawed. You may not agree on the commentary part of a journalistic piece but you cannot dismiss their stories a priori. Same applies for Fox News.


The fact that he chose to share Jon Oliver instead of Jon Oliver's sources indicates to me that he has not read those sources.


Ok so you don’t disagree with any points.


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