Hi HN, a few months ago I started building a suite of knowledge management tools to for my own needs. It's been a long iterative process of noticing patterns (and inefficiencies) in my workflow, building simple tools to improve it, and evolving the UX over time.
One of the tools I have been using daily is a web clipper that captures not just the current page, but can automatically extract key information from it. You can also do a quick lookup of your existing notes regardless which web page you are on.
Prior to this, I had been using web clipper extensions by Evernote, OneNote, and Notion, and all of them had something missing that would significantly slow me down. Wanted to share what I have built to address this. The code is integrated with the [Rumin](https://getrumin.com) backend (the other tools I built), but you can easily swap out the API calls to point to local storage or some other endpoint.
Check it out. Would love to hear feedback from the community :)
Great project! Rumin looks very interesting as well. I was a long-time Evernote Web Clipper user, but switched to Notion a few months ago. I'm much happier with Notion's web clipping workflow and table storage approach, but it's not perfect.
thanks neovive! Yeah Notion's web clipping and table storage approach is quite elegant. It only gets a bit clumsy when we get to the "power user" (not very common) use cases
Wouldn't it be possible to support any video by simply scanning for <video> tags and getting current playback information from there? I'm not sure, but is the extension able to control he video playback in order to navigate to the right time?
great idea! yeah that would seem to be a better design.
Regarding the playback time, currently I'm adding the "t=[TIME]s" parameter to the captured url, so it works for YouTube. But there are definitely more elegant solutions as this scales to support more websites.
One of the tools I have been using daily is a web clipper that captures not just the current page, but can automatically extract key information from it. You can also do a quick lookup of your existing notes regardless which web page you are on.
Prior to this, I had been using web clipper extensions by Evernote, OneNote, and Notion, and all of them had something missing that would significantly slow me down. Wanted to share what I have built to address this. The code is integrated with the [Rumin](https://getrumin.com) backend (the other tools I built), but you can easily swap out the API calls to point to local storage or some other endpoint.
Check it out. Would love to hear feedback from the community :)