Create a web app for access to personal Memex data
Ability to reach the memex dashboard in a web app independently from the extension for use cases of:
"I want to have temporary online access primarily for easy search and citing on computers I can't install extension"
or
"Saving, annotating & AI in the tab and access in cloud, without the extension"
The latter will require also to develop a bookmarklet that can inject javascript into websites without the extension and through that allow things like:
Annotating and saving to Memex on Safari, and on any browser where installing the extension is prohibited
Annotating and saving to Memex natively in any mobile browser
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thedayismine1@gmail.com
Sep 30, 2024
Yes. This. Web app would be sweet!
Anonymous User
Jun 26, 2024
This is a great idea. It can also help get around cases where the extension itself might be declined through corporate policies due to permissions, but not the web app. The question is - how then would highlighting work? Would it only be the limited functionality of searching what you have already collected and maybe sharing?
Anonymous User
Apr 21, 2024
Some companies have a very strict web browser policy:
The web browser cannot install any extension and some domains are forbidden
So the problem described above is simple, it's not possible to use Memex while at work since it relies on an extension/addon of the web browser.
A webapp would at least allow to access past bookmarks.
(and a bookmarklet would allow new bookmarks)
I don't know if it easily feasable or not..
Simon B
Apr 18, 2024
No idea. But I for instance, cannot use memex on a thin client computer at work. Sync doesn´t really work there (perhaps limited space or some other restrictions). Having a classical webpage makes it accessible from everywhere where you have a browser just per login. I think it is that what everyone is used to. No need to install an extension.
Oliver Sauter
Apr 18, 2024
Always using my own laptop, I never was in temporary need for a web app (partially why i was surprised), but can see that behind company walls it is a regular problem.
In my current thinking, a good UX for the use case of "Saving, annotating & AI in the tab and access in cloud, without the extension" would need both the web app and some capturing tool - without data the web app would be useless afterall.
The extension we could partially substitute with a bookmarklet that injects JS into the website a little like the extension does right now.
Another, potentially easier to implement, use case could be more like "I want to have temporary online access primarily for easy search and citing on computers I can't install extension"
Anyone having these usecases for the web app (or others?).
Simon B
Apr 19, 2024
Another, potentially easier to implement, use case could be more like "I want to have temporary online access primarily for easy search and citing on computers I can't install extension"
That would be just my usecase.
Oliver Sauter
Apr 18, 2024
Honestly surprising to me that this has gotten so many upvotes.
Can anyone tell me why this is an absolute necessary feature for them and the workflows it enables on a daily basis that they right now can't do?
Anonymous User
Apr 19, 2024
I'm new to this and maybe got this wrong, but voted with the assumption that this feature will enable being able to use memex on webpages on iPad for example without needing to "share" the webpage to the memex app. Currently, on iPad on any browser, I have to first share the webpage. On PC, with the chrome extension, it's seamless. Is my assumption correct? If not, any tip on the iPad situation? Thanks :)
Oliver Sauter
Apr 19, 2024
Thanks for chiming in.
No actually this feature is more for web access so you have a web app that allows you to view data without an extension.
However as explained in the response to Simon earlier in this post there is another item we want to develop which is the javascript bookmarklet.
That would inject the sidebar and highlighter in the original page in any browser.
However that would still require 2 clicks to be executed, but at least you'd stay in the native browser.
Would that bookmarklet solve your problem?