Look it as an alternative to the bookmarking service. You never have to click on a button to record your favorite pages.
I love how I can search history through the address bar to find a site that I know the title or URL of (which, therefore, i wouldn't really have much trouble finding through a search engine if I lost my history), but I find that actually searching for a lost link in browser history is absolutely horribly.
Yesterday evening I got into an argument with a colleague over how GSM works (Vodafone's network in the UK had severe downtime in many areas for much of the day), and I wanted to look up an article I had read in the last month or so about the man who thought up SMS, and his quotes on why it was limited to 160 characters.
It wasn't interesting enough for me to want to bookmark at the time, but it would have been useful last night. I spent about ten minutes trying to find it (through searching for keyworks in the history, to looking for related HN topics, as I know I found that article through a link from this site - eventually I was just scrolling down the list at what I think was roughly the date on which I might have read it).
I definitely read it on this computer, in this browser, within a time period that it is still in my history. Somewhere, but I sure as hell don't know where.
Eventually I gave up and bothered to Google it, what a surprise, it took me hardly any time to find what I wanted.
Afterthought: Maybe the Google should offer to archive your history and provide a search engine of just pages that you've viewed. We get a much better way to trace our footsteps, Google get even more data with which to target adverts towards us, win win.
Bookmarking mostly never worked for me, because like you pointed out in the example, you may never know what information you might have to recall.
We may come up with a way to 'star' a link to help bring up the favorite pages.
It's completely secured. I am encrypting data on all sides. Your data will be completely private. It literally started as a weekend project and now, on monday I am releasing it. So please bear with me as this looks like a rudimentary offering. Please feel free to use the service. I appreciate your feedback.
How is my encryption key generated and where/how it is stored on your server?
Forgive me if the key is generated by me on the client -- I'm afraid to try your plugin, so I'm not sure if that functionality exists. Looking forward to trying it out once I know more.
Apologies if its a bit hard on you, but when you make overwhelming claims it opens you up to criticism from all sides.
I can't stress the importance of this enough.
I am sure I would love your service, I used to index and collect my history for local searching, that project fell off over time. I hope your project could be the rebirth of it as it did prove an invaluable resource.
I appreciate your concern. I'll try tp put that up as soon as possible. It was a weekend project and I put it out for everyone out of sheer excitement. I'll appreciate if you can try the service out and help me with the feedback. Thanks!
Look it as an alternative to the bookmarking service. You never have to click on a button to record your favorite pages. Even if you miss it to click, you'll still have it stored somewhere.
Also, there have been other attempts at this (WebMynd, for example, before their most recent pivot). Would be great to know how Newtiny is different / better before installing.
On the download page it says that I grant your plugin "Your data on all websites." That couldn't sound less appealing.
If there is a way to bypass the collection and indexing of certain sites (I'm assuming, too, that it is stored and indexed on your servers), then you might want to explain how that happens from a link on your front page.
I'd love this if data were encrypted and hosted locally.