what is historious?

Have you ever read an interesting article online and then wanted to come back to it days later but couldn't find it any more? Bookmarks are not very effective because the sheer number and variety of websites we visit makes bookmarking a logistic nightmare.

historious is here to help with that exact situation. It is basically a social bookmarking search engine for sites you like. Add (we call it "historify") a site using our bookmarklet (it works with all browsers, even your phone's!), our browser extensions or manually, then come back to the site and search your historified sites just by entering some keywords!

how is it different from bookmarking?

historious is very different from your standard bookmarks, as you don't have categories, names, lists or anything else to categorize. Everything is generated automatically with one click of the bookmarklet, and historious saves the page as it is at that moment. When you need a site, you type a few keywords you remember from it, such as "blue sea", and historious shows you all the sites relevant to those keywords.

historious searches inside the content of the page, which is why it needs no tags or any other user input. Think of it as Google search for your history. No lists of bookmarks to wade through, no items to clean up, just a search box. Plus, you can always share your links if you want, on your personal historious!

Another important feature of historious is that it always saves the entire page you have bookmarked, so you have your own, permanent copy of the page, even if the original site is no longer available. You can share this version of the page in citations, or just keep it for future reference, so you always have a snapshot of your personal web, ready to share with others.

The best part: It's completely free!

what people are saying

@novaprom: Bookmarking history in the making