https://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule
A WebExtension to send links to your future self
https://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule
addon bookmarks browse-periodically time-travel webextension
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A WebExtension to send links to your future self
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule
- Owner: maxlath
- Created: 2016-07-29T22:39:19.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-17T20:52:18.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-17T21:34:12.505Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: addon, bookmarks, browse-periodically, time-travel, webextension
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://maxlath.eu/projects/time-capsule
- Size: 2.05 MB
- Stars: 35
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 12
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
Time Capsule
The best person to send you links matching your interests is a time traveling version of yourself: **create a time capsule by choosing when the current tab should be re-opened**; this will bookmark the current tab, and program to re-open it in the future, according to the choosen periodicity, be it an hour, a day, a month, a year, a decade!
## Summary
- [Install](#install)
- [Context](#context)
- [Development Setup](#development-setup)
- [License](#license)
## Install
* [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/time-capsule/)
* [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-capsule/mmpajmbpehdbemfblpmkfmmdampljkdi)
If you use a different browser that implements WebExtension, that shouldn't be hard to make it work for you too: make a request in the [issues](http://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule/issues) or on [mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@maxlath) to let me know, and I will see if that's possible.
## Context
This is a reboot of the awesome, but out-dated, [Browse Periodically](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browse-periodically/) ([repo](https://github.com/masahal/BrowsePeriodically)):
> Browse sites you want to check periodically (every hour, day, week, month and so on). You can also use for reminding pages, for example, by browsing every month.
I started working on it before Firefox was up to speed with WebExtension so had to let it sleep for a moment. Meanwhile, a team started working on [SnoozeTabs](https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs), it's quite similar, but TimeCapsule offers a few more things:
- re-open tabs periodically (rather than just one time)
- more flexibility to set the periodicity
- more time-traveling jokes
## Development Setup
```sh
git clone https://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule
cd time-capsule
```
* in Chrome
* open [`chrome://extensions`](chrome://extensions)
* tick the `developer mode` box
* click `load non packaged extension` and open the project's `extension` folder where the `manifest.json` file is
* in Firefox: [instructions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Temporary_Installation_in_Firefox)
* open [about:debugging](about:debugging)
* Load Temporary Add-on and select the `./extension` folder
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Debugging to debug Browser Action popups
## License
[AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html)