Spiders, Tags, Bookmarks and Knowledge Management
Installed a few things on my machine over the past three days:
This decision was mostly inspired by this post by The Doctor which recommended having a local Yacy instance periodically load up the rss feed made of your bookmarks on Shaarli in order to gradually build a search index which is based on one's own interests. I added to that by setting up FreshRSS, collecting a few RSS feeds I follow, and set up Yacy to regularly index new posts from it too.Why bother?
Mostly because I thought setting up a dynamic interlinked connection of little web services on my local machine was fun. I learned a lot while setting them up to run on the Apache httpd . As I'm also slowly rewriting my memex , this feels like a good place to start building out a stack of services that will form the basis of my exocortical system . It also really helps that they are all mostly in PHP so I can potentially run copies of them on cheap servers, and I can tinker with them if I so choose.
On another note, I also keep forgetting about things constantly. Having a bookmarks system on my local machine will help me keep track of interesting stuff I come across and take note of it later.
Possibly nerdsniping myself
I have to admit that most of my internet browsing happens on my phone. There's no other way to go about it. I commute to and from work, and I won't always be in front of my desk. I need a way to save the things I organically encounter on the net from the phone.
So far, none of the apps listed on the default shaarli install nor those I've found online are satisfactory:
- Shaarlier can't seem to connect to the shaarli instance running on my local network. Says its not a compatible shaarli instance despite me being able to pull it up via the browser on my phone.
- Stakali is not open source.
This may be a hack, but for now, I've used the "+ Shaare Link" JS bookmarklet in the "Tools" tab of Shaarli, added it as a bookmark on android chrome using the instructions in this stack overflow answer . This allows me to open a webpage, then begin typing "bookmark" and have the option show up in the recommended links. This way, Shaarli is able to pick up the webpage title and link all by itself, and all I need to do is to add some tags.