Why can’t you easily search all of the text you read on any screen (desktop + mobile) over the past day? It’s strange how much obvious, low-hanging fruit of this form still exists.
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Yeah. Feels to me that it should just hook into the text rendering engine and/or display driver. Literally anything that was on-screen. Shouldn’t be too hard to prototype on desktop...
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I think there are some security concerns? Even if encrypted, it might retain secrets that have to be manually pruned, which is cumbersome.
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If the data was only stored locally and retained for only N days, I'd be comfortable having it see everything. Lots of code executing on my laptop already gets to "see" everything.
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The original suggestion of “past day” is indeed quite reasonable.
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I wrote a chrome extension that saves the rendered dom of every site I visit and does text extraction. Have only used the data for visualization (not retrieval) but the patterns over the years are fascinating.pic.twitter.com/Yeq4kMmfSL
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But yea, screenshot => OCR => index every 2s would be a killer app for me.
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I don't think you can actually do this due to proliferation of certificate pinning.
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