Ask HN: Personal web history referral graph with clustering
When doing research or just navigating I find myself opening multiple tabs that I wan't to deep dive in later but never have the time to. This leads to leaving multiple tabs open in my browser which I eventually group in different windows but still leave untouched. After some days/weeks I sometimes save each "Research Session" window in a Session using FFs Tab Session Manager extension. However, the flow of that research session is lost.
Is there any extension or tool with which one can visualize the web history as a graph, seeing which site lead to which and maybe clustering nodes by topic?
How do you personally keep track of such sessions? I am too lazy to transfer the knowledge from those sites to some knowledge base or to use bookmarks with categories (I like the idea of being aware of the referral that brought me to a particular site). Not that I know of, but I'd be interested in using something like that! How would it be connected? Would you connect a new tab to the past N tabs that you visited? I guess there are tabs that are open through clicking a link so they'd be connected directly as a directed graph. New tabs not opened by clicking a link would appear near the others as they were opened during the same time period. I am not sure if anything of that would help but I am curious to know if anyone had explored this already. Other stuff that comes to mind:
- easy deletion of irrelevant nodes (opening a news site during a pause)
- visualizing time spent on a website by node size
- search (it'd be cool if the whole thing also archived or made snapshots of the visited sites, maybe just using the internet archive)
- eventually tags or colors for further classification