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"Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot."

This sounds wild. Is it an extension that just works automatically? Or?

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Well, it has several parts. There’s a little Firefox extension which collects the text from each page as it’s opened; that sends it off to a webserver running on localhost, which stores the text in an SQLite database. I then made a minimal graphical frontend with Qt to let me search the database easily. Nothing especially fancy, but very useful nevertheless.

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