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History Search

Your filesystem for the web

27 followers

Your filesystem for the web

27 followers

2018 Golden Kitty Awards
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).
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Launched in 2018View 1 launch
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Launch tags:
Safari Extensions•Browser Extensions•Web App
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Martijn Verbove

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Martijn Verbove
Martijn Verbove

Webscape

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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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7yr ago
Radoslav Stankov
Radoslav Stankov
Product Hunt

Product Hunt

@martijn_verbove 🙌
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7yr ago
Martijn Verbove
Martijn Verbove

Webscape

Maker
@rstankov 😻
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7yr ago
Ruslan
Ruslan

LifeTracker

Over the past year I’ve seen History Search develop very quickly. I know Martijn and he’s very motivated to make this services the best it can possibly be.

Pros:

History Search often works better than searching services themselves because all the content in History Search is relevant to me alone.

Cons:

There’s not mobile app yet, but as I’ve heard a mobile responsive web search is on its way.

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7yr ago
Oliver Rösner
Oliver Rösner
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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7yr ago
Oliver Rösner
Oliver Rösner
@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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7yr ago
Martijn Verbove
Martijn Verbove

Webscape

Maker
@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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7yr ago
Oliver Rösner
Oliver Rösner
@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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7yr ago
Oliver Rösner
Oliver Rösner
@martijn_verbove Feels great so far! Is there a hotkey to favorite a web page?
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7yr ago
Martijn Verbove
Martijn Verbove

Webscape

Maker
@retendo Thanks 😻Yeah here they are: https://docs.historysearch.com/t...
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7yr ago
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