Re:Show HN: Eesel – Federated search without API integrations
by amoghs on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:28PM
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Thanks, glad you liked the demo! We'll hopefully support Safari soon.
The feed works by pushing new pages you or your teammates make and share. For instance, if you make a new Notion page and add it to a Folder, it'll get pushed to other teammates who are members of the Folder. There's no automatic way to notify teammates of an update for now, but we're working on something related to do that right now.
Re:Show HN: Eesel – Federated search without API integrations
by rgbrgb on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:35PM
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Got it, thanks that makes sense. So it's a feed of updates from other eesel users on documents I have accessed.
Re:Show HN: Eesel – Federated search without API integrations
by amoghs on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:20PM
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Not quite, I did a poor job explaining it, sorry!
When a document is shared with you in eesel (say, your teammate adds it to a team folder), even if you haven't seen the document before, it'll appear in your eesel. It's a way to discover what teammates are up to.
The idea is that everyone can automatically push their work into shared folders, and build a team 'source of truth', without the overhead of maintaining things.
Does that makes sense?
The onboarding looks so smooth because you pull so much context from browser history. Impressively simple.
My technical question is how you get the feed to work (or maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is) if you're not receiving updates from an app. When someone else makes an update to a google doc, how does eesel know and push a feed update?
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLWCTjkmxgM&feature=youtu.be
edit: FWIW I'd def install this but I mainly work in safari