When a user disables a page through the blacklist, we should delete our records of it.

When a new exclusion rule is added, existing items matching the new rule should be added. This probably should be done via some sort of preview in case there are typos in the regex/rule or user is not aware of the extent of items it would clear.

Firefox user here: Falcon seems to be promising, but I'm not using Chrome. Would it be possible to support other browsers as well?

...at least how I intend them :)

Open preferences, add .*fineco.*, save, go to finecobank.com
Open preferences, finecobank is now in Falcon History

not just link it to chrome web store. some people like me can not reach web store.

f <tab> <enter> wat do?

The falcon is a highly elusive and predatory species of bird, often referred to as the "king of the skies". It would follow that "falcon" seems like an incredibly inappropriate name for a web browser history search tool, which, other than its name, has nothing in common with this powerful and majestic creature.

Therefore, I would like to propose a name change from "Falcon" to "Ostrich" (Struthio camelus), which is a large, flightless bird native to Africa. Ostriches are, in fact, the fastest land animals on two feet; they have a maximum speed of around 40 miles per hour, and can maintain a constant speed of over 30 miles per hour. This could suggest the incredible speed of your software. Additionally, they are also the only surviving member of the genus Struthio, which could imply the uncommon nature of your software. Unlike the falcon, ostriches have no such regal connotations, and you would be safer to market your application without fear of a coordinated falcon strike.

I've marked up and attached a couple of logo suggestions, in case you decide to follow through with the name change (of which I strongly recommend).

Just a thought.

With love,
Michael "Falco" Yang

This might be a can of worms but, at the least I'd be interested to know your [the author's] thoughts on if it's feasible/how one might approach scraping a user's web history and integrating that content into the search capabilities of this tool.

Thanks for making this plugin!

Hey Guys,

Just add some future ideas for the project. I describe and mockup them in this text:
http://zehfernandes.com/bookmark-is-dead/

Articles that I Read last week

• articles = pages with large text content
• read = spent more than 3 minutes on the page

Links Murilo sent to me

• links = any URL
• sent by = sourced by email or chats

links that I found about bathroom

• found = source by many clicks
• about = the content has this subject

Every time falcon is updated it opens https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon which is somewhat annoying.

First off, thank you!

I've been looking for this functionality for a long time and considered building on my own :) but never got to it.

However, I'd feel it complete the picture if you also searched through bookmarks or had a bookmark only mode. This would give me control over what I'd want to index!

Feature Request... I often Bookmark alot of interesting and technical articles... Is there any way to have falcon index all my 500 bookmarks so they become searchable without me having to visit each one.

it isnt

Would be nice to see the extensions available for Firefox as well

This isn't really an issue but I'm not sure of the best place to ask.

I viewed a page yesterday, and today the page has changed. I can use falcon to search my cache for a word I know was on yesteday's version of the page and find the right URL.

What I would like to do is export as much as I can from the falcon-cached version of the page.

Recently added this extension from the Chrome web store. Randomly tabs are opened to this github repository. This seems to be linked to the "first time install" behavior. The problem is that as the extension is installed on various installs of Chrome across my machines the new tab gets opened on that newly installed instance and all other currently open instances (cross-machine) at the same time.

This is a somewhat creepy "feature." I have been reading an article only for these new tabs to pop up multiple times.

Open preferences, add a site, save, reload preferences: new rule is gone.

remember to put this text as the greyed out temporary text in the box

I mistook 'Clear All Data' to mean 'Clear all history' only and it erased my custom websites exclusions also. I think it'd be better to have two separate options for erasing rules and history even if the global option is kept.

on installation, should go to preferences page and open up some kind of pop up modal that says:

"Welcome to Falcon! To learn more about Falcon's functionality look at https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon"

Hey folks,

I tried to contact @lengstrom via linkedIn and Facebook a few weeks back, but without a response.
It would be great to collaborate in the future on the open-source project we are building.

We have forked your tool and added the ability to import the existing history and bookmarks, as well as PDF support.
At the WorldBrain project, we are further developing it into a search-engine for the complete digital knowledge of a user. More about that you can see in our 2 min intro video.

In the long-term we want to battle online misinformation by making it possible to effortlessly share trustworthy websites/content/notes with followers and let them search through them. (among other important features). This is reflected in our 3,5 min vision video

I've seen that you have not been working on the tool in the recent months. So anybody who is interested in continuing these efforts, I invite to contribute to our project.

Just write me an email under [email protected].

Happy 2017 :)
Oliver

It's a known fact that the web is broken - sites and articles disappear daily. Links are not permanent, thus it's not enough to just index the text and save them if you want to be able to reliably go back to the content some time in the future.

It would be really awesome if, by clicking the Falcon button on a website, one could persist the state of the website locally - everything - including CSS and pictures (and maybe even videos, if we're wild and have too much space!). If we combine this with a private server used for storing this data (#49), added the ability to manually tag specific sites for future reference and to comment on them, we could potentially make it into a tool where whole teams could collaborate while researching a given topic! One would then also need a GUI for browsing through that saved history manually, but it would essentially be the best collaborative research tool available.

I'd totally be up for helping develop this.

If you visit https://ludios.org/tmp/falcon-bug.html and then open the Falcon Preferences, you'll see the page title in red. This is caused by

This probably can't be used for XSS because Chrome doesn't let you insert a <script> here, but you might be able to do other bad things with it, including stylesheet modification, surprise images or audio, or denial of service.

what if u r on your bank's website or something

This is a strange and very specific issue, but the extension breaks the go to unread post functionality of the ArsTechnica forums (and I think all phpBB forums, as this is a default functionality, but haven't tested this).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create account on ArsTechnica
2. Visit a thread on the forums
3. Wait for new posts to be made on that thread
4. Click on the icon to the left of the thread (unread posts)

Observed behavior:

1. With the extension enabled you're not redirected to the first unread message, but dumped to the start of the thread.
2. With the extension disabled or by adding the ArsTechnica forums to the blacklist (http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/civis\/.*) jumping to the first unread message in a thread works as expected.

Very nice extension! Using it several days and already proved its useful!
Requests:

1. Would be nice to have the data on several computers in sync (if its at least possible.. May be retrive the not saved pages in the background using just URL-s from other machine..)
2. Something like: Ignore rules right from extension icon: so that if extension is saving the data - icon is green. If I click on the icon and choose "ignore website" - icon becomes red.
   Hope the project is not dead yet, no updates for 2 months.
   Thank you again!

dont do it

Turn it on and falcon won't index anything you visit for (a) an hour (b) 24 hours (c) indefinitely until user turns things back on.

Just file this under a potential enhancement.

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/blob/master/extension/js/background.js#L161

horu should be hour

It would be great if Falcon were able to persist the data across multiple computers and perhaps had an automated backup system. It might be cool if one could run a server that Falcon logs into to sync the data -- this could even potentially turn it into a SASS business model for people who don't want to run their own servers.

I installed this last week and it's already proved useful, and I can see using it regularly. Do you accept donations of any type?

It would be easiest for me to drop you a small contribution on http://gratipay.com (full disclosure, I'm involved with the project), but setting up any easy way to accept donations might help offset your time.

It's unclear from just looking at the UI what format the 3 different types of exclusions take e.g. whether regex needs to be /something/ format etc. There should be a couple of examples listed in or shown during in the workflow.

I'm not positive that you got the idea from Min, but it seems likely.