Request

[c9]

Gmail has made email management really quite nice. If only I could get Outlook at work to behave similarly, with unlimited storage. Right now I'm stuck under a 300MB limit, *plus* the pain of Outlook searches which take forever and a day.

When it comes to web browsing, I often find myself wanting to find something I read a while back. Not something important enough to bookmark, but important enough to refer back to in a conversation or something. The problem comes when Google won't find it for me. I need some way to get Google and my browsing history (across multiple machines) merged, so that I can always get back to places I've been.

Anybody feel like making that magic happen?

Comments

[thespos]

Ack - and my magic wand is in the shop...

:-P

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

I think the new Google desktop might have a way to help you out here. (If nothing else, it will help with Outlook searches.)

[c9.livejournal.com]

GD is a local tool, unfortunately. My magic is the "every computer's history" bit. It's a very niche need.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't it work if you keep your history in the shared folder where you keep your favourites?

[c9.livejournal.com]

a) gave up on the offline files bit. We use the computers too randomly, and turn them off to save the planet, so the "I can't connect!" message was popping up too often. Also, it killed my bookmarks once when both machines tried to touch them.

b) I want my work computer(s) to be part of the mix too.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Why a 300MB limit? A quota imposed at work? I think my Outlook PST file is hovering above 2GB right now...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, work-imposed. For just 220 employees, obviously they could go higher. But I suspect that Outlook's inefficiencies over large VPNs might be trouble.

I'm finding myself very against local storage lately -- far too inconvenient. So even though I could resolve the issue locally myself, I don't want to.

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

i've used the Outlook add-on called "Lookout" for searching, and it helped tremenesly. Very fast tool, though I know Microsoft bought the company and now they'll be a part of Outlook, but you can still look for them.

http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download.html

[c9.livejournal.com]

Just installed it -- does search very well. Thanks!

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I read an article somewhere (can't find it now, ironically) that talked about putting Beagle indexes on a removable USB drive so that you could take them with you to other computers and do basically what you're describing (you needed to be using Firefox with the Beagle indexing plugin, though).

Of course, this only applies to Beagle, which depends on Mono and probably Linux. But it should be theoretically possible to do something similar with Google Desktop if you can figure out where the indexes are kept.