WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:16PM (#23228467)

Yeah, my computer is fast enough that I can just do "find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext {} \; | grep -i someSearchTerm" and come back later. Bonus points that it stays in my Terminal for reference later in the day as needed.

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by wolfhumble on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:06PM (#23229836)

Is there a reason why you don't use mdfind instead (built-in spotlight search from the terminal)? That way you can search pdf files directly from the terminal without converting to text first, and the directory is already indexed.

E.g:

[$]mdfind -onlyin ~/MyDirectory someSearchTerm

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:50AM (#23231357)

1: Force of habit, since I use grep and silversearcher elsewhere a lot, but 2: I hate the mdfind indexer service putting garbage all over my disks, so I've turned it off and forgotten about it.

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