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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Jan 2018
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      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.

      156 replies 338 retweets 2,320 likes
    2. arohner‏ @arohner 15 Jan 2018
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      I’ve long wanted a “recall engine”. A search engine, but only for things you’ve read.

      8 replies 4 retweets 146 likes
    3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Jan 2018
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      Yeah, exactly.

      6 replies 0 retweets 33 likes
    4. Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 15 Jan 2018
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      Maybe you could build this as a web proxy server that you configured all your devices to use.

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Jan 2018
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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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        2. Guillermo Rauch‏Verified account @rauchg 15 Jan 2018
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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.

          2 replies 0 retweets 41 likes
        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Jan 2018
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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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        2. Ilya Sukhar‏ @ilyasu 15 Jan 2018
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          Replying to @patrickc @avibryant @arohner

          I did this with accessibility APIs on Mac and Android. Gives you all text rendered in reasonably standard form.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Nick Baum  🇸🇪‏Verified account @nickbaum 15 Jan 2018
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          Did you find it useful?

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        2. joshua schachter‏ @joshu 15 Jan 2018
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          Replying to @patrickc @avibryant @arohner

          This has been built. Multiple times. RA (https://github.com/zzkt/remembrance-agent …) was an inspiration for Delicioua 15+ years ago. Browser extensions that index everything you read. So on and so on. Either indexing quality was too poor, or there is not enough signal.

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        3. Nick Hutton‏ @nickdothutton 15 Jan 2018
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          Try @worldbrain. Also, there has been little OS innovation since BeOS and OpenSolaris about 17 years ago.

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        2. Anshu Sharma  🌶‏ @anshublog 15 Jan 2018
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          Maybe a good idea but hard to build a business around it.https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/atlas-informatics-calls-it-quits-after-less-than-a-year/ …

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        3. Rasty Turek‏ @synopsi 15 Jan 2018
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          Yep, there is no business in it. Same as recommendation engine. You don’t own the data, people will not pay

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        1. Omar Uddin‏ @omaruddin 15 Jan 2018
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          Screen based might be nice but also risky as others said. Better system would be Siri being more aware of indexable data pipeline allowed by devs for more usability and intelligent workflows.

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        1. Jonas Maximilian  🧙‍♂️‏ @Jonas_Sota 16 Jan 2018
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          would "anything you read in your browser" be good enough?

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