grasp

A reliable org-capture browser extension for Chrome/Firefox (by karlicoss)

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  • Converting a web page to Org mode to include in my notes
    4 projects | /r/orgmode | 1 Jun 2023
    There is an extension called Grasp which acts as a web clipper, you highlight the relevant part & add a tag. It's pretty great. But it only appends to a file. https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp
  • How to organize bookmarks using emacs?
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Jul 2022
    I use grasp to capture links from the browser. It also captures any text you have selected on the page and you can add tags and a description.
  • Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
    34 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022
  • How do you curate your knowledge while browsing the web?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 20 Feb 2022
  • I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    I'm not using browser bookmarks anymore, instead I am just using plaintext files (org-mode in my case). When I want to make a bookmark I use grasp [0] to simply capture in in the 'links.org' file, possibly with some notes/selected text and tags. Now and then I would skim through this file, refile the most important/interesting things to other files, and put the rest into 'later.org' (things I might never look at again :) ). The upside is that bookmarks become alive this way, you can easily edit them, add more context, interlink, etc.

    I also mirror saved items from other services (e.g. reddit/HN/twitter/instapaper) as plaintext org-mode files, via orger [1].

    Then, all of this feeds into Promensia [0] [1], a tool I wrote that serves as a web browsing copilot and surfaces my bookmarks (or any relevant links, really) when I'm browsing.

    That way I don't need to worry about spending too much time processing bookmarks and that I'd never read them, I can just read the most interesting stuff and the rest is searchable (so I use it as a knowledge base/personal search engine), and surfaces in my browser via Promnesia, so I can find out if I have some relevant information in my knowledge base without actively searching. I don't need to suffer from vendor lock-in (even if the service/tool is open, migration is always painful), I can just add another adapter to my system and feed it into Promnesia/Orger.

    [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp#readme

    [1] https://beepb00p.xyz/orger.html

    [2] https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668507

  • Need opinions regarding developing a browser extension(firefox) for taking notes from a webpage
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Sep 2021
    I think the current solutions have some serious problems, grasp while easy to set up does not allow you to use the functionalities of org-capture and emacs, org-capture and org-capture-html are very hard to set up, It is the hardest emacs things to set up IMO and many people haven't been able to set it up at all (I think Karl Voit? and some other prominent emacsers?).
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Sep 2021
  • How do you browse the Internet?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Sep 2021
    Grasp (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasp and https://beepb00p.xyz/grasp.html for the system/python listener) and Promnesia (https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html) help me "import" quick bookmarks to org-mode (I can't use org-protocol with firejail, at least I have to tweak firejail and I never tried to do so). They demand a small effort (perhaps a quick python venv somewhere in the home to remain self-contained) but they are helpful.
  • How do you get feedback from your systems?
    3 projects | /r/orgmode | 30 Jul 2021
    for reading, I'm currently trying to set up elfeed and come sort of capture like grasp. My idea is to use org-mode to also log those things (kinda) effortless.
  • A Topic Manager for Chrome and emacs
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Apr 2021
    Perhaps it's more similar to my other tool, grasp, but even that is more aimed at bookmarking rather than organizing open tabs. Promnesia is more for notifying the user if they have something relevant to the current URL in their knowledge base and yeah, retracing your steps. And yeah it's passive in the sense that it's 'read only', only displays history/context from other places. I guess one could use Grasp + Promnesia to approximate what Braintool does to some extent though.
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