Archivist — tools for archiving and exploring
Archivist is a set of tools for archiving and exploring.
I spend a lot of time gathering resources and lateral thinking material. Over the years I noticed that stuff tends to disappear from the web, both the original content, and services used to collect it.
Archivist fetches local copies of the source images and frozen copies of the websites, so things wont get lost. I'm trading my local disk space for feeling safe that the content stays with me.
This work was partially prompted by local-first ideas from Ink&Switch.
There's no UI except for the content, and no interaction except for scrolling and searching.
Code is open sourced: szymonkaliski/Archivist.
- Archivist — which was technically made in 2019, is something I use a lot, I recently added a way to search through screenshots I take (using OCR) and this had a huge impact on how I collect things, I should probably share an update about it soon
- a bigger topic on where ideas come from, related to keeping reference materials (Archivist, Commonplace book)
Szymon Kaliski © 2021
