Bookmark Manager
This is my bookmark manager. Currently, it shows me all the sites I've bookmarked and tweets I've liked across time. This helps me keep a on interesting ideas and resources with minimal overhead, helping me recall, reference, and find associations between things quickly.
I am particularly excited about the amount of potential deeplinking I can do that browser bookmark managers don't offer. For example, I can click on the website or twitter profile of the item, and see all items I've bookmarked for that entity. I can imagine a lot of different "facets" like this that let me view things through different relations, like time, topic, etc.
The next big step is adding full text search to the text of my bookmarks to make referencing even easier, and maybe even help in serendipitous discovery of older bookmarks. I'm also working on ingesting my youtube likes into this database, and indexing the subtitles of the videos, allowing full text search over video bookmarks too!
More broadly, as my imagination has expanded over the potential data sources I can integrate with I am realizing there is value in having control over a centralized database of my activity beyond just bookmarks, especially considering that these data were stuck in proprietary silos before. I imagine there's even more interesting things to be done once I integrate my location data[1], photo stream, and messaging data for example. This is in line with the vision of a "Memex" or a device, “in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory."[2]
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/…/19…/07/as-we-may-think/303881/