Rewind displays your bookmarks filtered by date, with thumbnails and instant search. It takes one click to see the links you saved yesterday, last week, last month. It's totally free and it relies on your local bookmarks, you don't have to create an account.
Thanks a lot for the hunt, @chrismessina!
I made this extension because for many years I have been saving to my bookmarks every link I wanted to check out later, and I ended up with thousands of cool blog articles, website for products, youtube videos and so on, just waiting to be discovered again.
It can feel overwhelming to open your bookmarks list and check them one by one, thanks to this extension it feels more like browsing Producthunt, Reddit, Refind and so on.
Everyday you have your feed of cool links, curated by you, in the past.
There are many other advantages that make me use this extension on a semi-daily basis.
By the way, it's 100% free. Thank you for giving it a try!
@tweetatmax Thank you for using Rewind!
I don't know about Freezetab, I will check it out!
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "cycling through the months"? I'll be happy to help if it's not the expected behaviour.
@tweetatmax I've checked Freezetab and there's definitely some overlap on the problems it solves, but it seems like it's not relying on actual bookmarks? Which is a shame, because it doesn't know about the links you've saved before installing the extension, and the day you decide to uninstall it, you've lost everything you've saved with it.
Please record and send away! But please also allow the extension in incognito mode and try it from there, because it may be because of another extension that messes with it.
@tweetatmax@j_____________n I am having the same problem. Have tried 3 times to load it. At first I thought it was indexing my bookmarks by day but it kept running too long and eventually stopping on a black screen. Thanks for creating it though @Julien I will try again another day.
@tweetatmax@julien@pam_j_costa I apologize for this bug, can you allow and try Rewind in incognito mode, and/or can you look in the Developer Tools Console (F12) if any error shows up and report it back to me please? I'd love to fix it but I need some more data.
@julien@j_____________n@tweetatmax Sorry I got distracted and didn't get a chance to try again. I will try tomorrow. Thank you for your quick response, apologies for my not so quick response.
@j_____________n Any chance of making this open-source? I think a lot of people would be more comfortable using this if they knew what was going on under the hood and how their personal data was being kept safe. Thanks for making this, looks really useful :)
@jxmesth Great question, I'd be happy to, I'm a huge open source enthusiast and I've shared many personal projects on my Github account (bouiboui) in the past, but I don't feel comfortable sharing this one yet because I feel like it's the best thing I've created so far so I'm overly attached to it, and I have big plans for it in the future, for example I'd like to get rid of the external dependencies, and I have ton of ideas for new features.
I guess once I reach a bigger user base I'll feel more confident releasing it!
@jxmesth@j_____________n I go the reasoning but I won't use it until I'm sure of the privacy. I'll upvote for the work done, but still I'm not going to become a user if this will be private :)
Well done and hope to see the right decisions taken in the future!
@jxmesth@claudiocodispoti I totally get it, and thanks to both of you I now understand why some users might be reluctant to use it. I'll get back to you when it happens!
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
@j_____________n Thank you for you reply. I totally understand that not everyone wants to make their work open-source, especially when makers like you have worked so hard to build something that's very much needed today. And honestly that's fine as long as you have a clear privacy policy that informs users on how their data is being handled and where it's being stored. Correct me if I'm wrong but I couldn't find any of that info on Rewind's website. Thanks once again for making something amazing :)
Hey @j_____________n, nice idea. Thanks for this, I find it very useful already. It's cool to be able to visualise my bookmarks in chronological order :-)
Is there a reason you cannot pre-defne the year in search?
@le551 The biggest inspiration for this extension is Timehop, where you can see the pictures you took on this day, but throughout the past years, that's what this extension does, but with your bookmarks (and then it adds thumbnails, a search engine, and other cool features).
So that's why you can't search for a specific year (yet), but that's definitely something I can add.
@j_____________n thanks for your reply :)
re: Timehop, Yes I had similar thoughts when I stumbled across this. Like the concept! Good luck with it!
If you ever need help testing or what not, give me a shout! Always happy to give feedback.
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