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It would perfectly fit my use-case if it supports the following flow: 1. Person A makes a research and collects and ranks a set of products 2. When done, person A sends to…",[],"unknown","beta",{"praise":61,"objections":89,"requests":112,"questions":134,"alternatives":145},[62,78],{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Useful bookmarking and research concept","commenter",[66,70,74],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"30091277","howmayiannoyyou","This is genius and scratches a bookmarking itch I've had for ages. I hope you'll press on with this and continue its development. Its pretty close to a state where I would pay…",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"30093280","ydant","This is a really cool concept. A lot of my \"web foraging\" (love that expression) or data foraging really is exactly what he's mentioning here. Also made me think of a related…",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"30096701","progre","Nice! Way better than the system I currently use called \"Never Close Any Tabs\"",{"value":79,"source":64,"evidence":80},"Bookmarklet approach is interesting",[81,85],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"30091834","akpa1","I love this idea, especially the bookmarklet aspect of it. I'm interested to see where it goes. I use a couple of bookmarklets, and they're really, really handy: - One…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"30091411","greenie_beans","this looks dope, can’t wait to try it out. thnx for sharing",[90,101],{"value":91,"source":64,"evidence":92},"Bookmarklet blocked by content security policies on some sites",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"30090131","rektide","> Note, because of technical reasons (content security policies) some sites (e.g. Twitter, Airbnb) will add to Electric Tables, but in a new tab instead of using a pop-up and it…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"30095831","jnsie","Would really like this to rate restaurants (for my own remembrance) I order from on Uber Eats, Doordash, etc. Alas, the bookmarklet doesn't work with my first port of call, Uber…",{"value":102,"source":64,"evidence":103},"Cannot run locally or query with SQL",[104,108],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"30090678","whoomp12342","I would love this even more if I could install it and run it locally, so I can use sql or similar on it too",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"30093407","gardenfelder","To make it run locally, will need a small server so that it can be addressed at localhost:\u003Cport> I'm thinking about forking it to my github and adding a simple js server. Thoughts?",[113,124,130],{"value":114,"source":64,"evidence":115},"Run locally or integrate with Google Sheets",[116,117,120],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},{"id":118,"by":72,"text":119},"30093439","This is one of those really simple ideas that's really exciting - making me think of a lot of \"what-ifs\". Thank you for sharing. I'd love for this level of functionality - but…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"30097507","jayd16","Seems neat. I'm not sure whether I like or dislike that its not just dumping into excel or google sheets. As a high concept, the idea of quick and personalized scraping of web…",{"value":125,"source":64,"evidence":126},"Sharing and collaboration on tables",[127,128,129],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"value":131,"source":64,"evidence":132},"Browser extension version",[133],{"id":118,"by":72,"text":119},[135],{"value":136,"source":64,"evidence":137},"How does it compare to Wildcard",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"30093410","karlicoss","Related idea: Wildcard [0] It would be cool to have a shared community repository of site adapters, in the spirit of adversarial interoperability [1]. It's probably the most…",{"id":143,"by":72,"text":144},"30094483","There's a huge amount of conceptual similarity between Wildcard and Electric Tables. I think I like (from the videos) the table approach of Wildcard a bit better, but it looks…",[146,151,158,165],{"value":147,"source":64,"evidence":148},"Wildcard",[149,150],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},{"id":143,"by":72,"text":144},{"value":152,"source":64,"evidence":153},"Zotero",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"30096291","mynameismon","Well, I use Zotero for this exact purpose. It covers exactly this, but stores everything in a SQLite file, so it is much more accessible",{"value":159,"source":64,"evidence":160},"Microsoft Edge Collections",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"30103829","WorldMaker","There's some interesting overlaps here too with Edge's \"Collections\", which I mention because isn't listed in the comparison list but may still be a useful comparison. 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As for CSP - I'm not technical enough to really understand why it…",{"id":175,"text":176},"30092050","\"We propose that web sites can be similarly augmented with other sophisticated data-centric functionality, giving users new benefits over the existing Web.\" - gonna check this…",{"id":51,"text":52},{"commenters":179,"max_depth":41,"maker_replies":41,"first_comment_mins":180,"lifespan_hours":181},30,15,23,[183,185,187,190,193,197,200,202,204,206,209,212,214,217,218,220,221,223,225,228,231,232,234,238,242,245,249,251,256,257,258,260,263,265,267,271,273],[139,43,41,184,140,43],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[143,43,42,186,72,43],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[188,43,41,184,189,43],"30095133","cobertos",[191,33,41,184,192,43],"30090654","multiplegeorges",[194,33,43,195,196,43],"30091189","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","parentheses",[198,33,41,184,199,43],"30093168","samwillis",[94,34,43,201,95,43],"other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[172,34,43,203,11,33],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[205,34,41,184,110,43],"30090554",[207,34,43,201,208,43],"30091076","pronoiac",[210,34,43,201,211,43],"30091412","btown",[213,34,43,195,95,43],"30091803",[215,34,43,195,216,43],"30091529","Rygian",[82,41,42,186,83,43],[67,219,42,186,68,43],4,[54,42,41,184,55,43],[162,222,41,184,163,43],6,[71,224,42,186,72,43],7,[226,224,42,186,227,43],"30093484","tconfrey",[229,38,41,184,230,43],"30091475","dunham",[175,38,43,201,11,33],[155,18,33,233,156,43],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fidea",[235,31,41,236,237,43],"30092841","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution","Softcadbury",[239,240,43,201,241,43],"30092043",11,"2sk21",[243,240,43,201,244,43],"30092430","distrill",[246,247,41,184,248,43],"30095935",12,"BugWatch",[121,32,41,250,122,43],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fidea",[252,253,41,254,255,43],"30091521",14,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","ollymeakings",[51,253,43,203,11,33],[118,253,42,186,72,43],[105,180,42,259,106,43],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fexecution",[98,261,33,262,99,43],16,"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fexecution",[109,264,41,236,110,43],17,[266,264,41,236,110,43],"30093586",[268,269,42,186,270,43],"30096513",18,"wnolens",[75,272,42,186,76,43],19,[86,274,42,275,87,43],20,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[],[278,283,288,293,298,302],{"id":279,"name":280,"points":281,"category":282},"30057442","Let's Block It",261,"security_privacy",{"id":284,"name":285,"points":286,"category":287},"30047455","Marginalia",236,"consumer_social",{"id":289,"name":290,"points":291,"category":292},"30045901","Webutils",188,"creative",{"id":294,"name":295,"points":296,"category":297},"30051902","bangBang",146,"games",{"id":299,"name":300,"points":301,"category":287},"30039692","Hacker XP",136,{"id":303,"name":304,"points":305,"category":306},"30066184","Hey.Café",133,"web_saas",false,"v2",{"id":310,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":307,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":28,"s":311,"top":18,"kw":312,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":43,"strip":313,"url":9,"mix":314,"praise":63,"objection":91,"sub":21},30089895,0.23,[24,25,26,27],"3533030030000553355301300333055133555",[31,32,33,34],1794036616209]