Chrome extension for full-text browsing history & bookmarks search.
To activate, press w
, then space
or tab
, in the omnibar to start searching your previously visited websites!
Every time you visit a website in Chrome, WorldBrain indexes all the text on the page so that the site can be easily found later. Then, for example, if you type w <tab> mugwort
, WorldBrain will show the websites you visited containing the text "mugwort"!
You can watch a short 2 minute video here: worldbrain.io*/*tutorial
- Import existing history and bookmarks via the dashboard. (Reachable via the small brain icon in the top-right corner of the browser)
- Use
before:date
andafter:date
to search your history in a certain time range- You can use natural language along with quotes to specify dates as well, e.g.
before:"yesterday at 5pm"
- You can use natural language along with quotes to specify dates as well, e.g.
- Use quotations to look for exact matches of strings containing whitespace
- Only documents containing all words will be returned
before: "yesterday at 5pm" after: "three weeks ago" emscripten blog "anish athalye"
- Searches for websites that you browsed between yesterday at 5pm and 3 weeks ago containing the keywords "emscripten" and "blog" and "anish athalye"
-"cat food" just "a dog"
- Searches for websites you visited containing the keywords "just" and "a dog", and without the phrase "cat food".
ethereum medium
- Searches for websites you visited in the last 2 weeks containing the keywords "ethereum" and "medium"
ethereum medium after:11/29/2015 before:3/26/2016
- Searches for websites you visited between 11/29/2015 and 3/26/2016 containing the keywords "ethereum" and "medium"
To manage which URLs WorldBrain can index, delete websites from the index, and more, go to the preferences page.