Sankofa – Chat with the Browser History
Hey Hackernews, I'm Ofer, head of developer relations at Vectara. Some of us read a lot of articles on the web, like those on HN, and it seems useful to be able to search the contents of the text we read (using semantic search), or ask questions about it (ChatGPT style). Sankofa is a new browser extension that allows you to index web pages you visit and search / ask questions about that content. We built it using Vectara's retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) platform and hope this is useful to folks. This is an initial release - we would love to hear any feedback and suggestions. BTW,…
Sankofa – Chat with the Browser History launched on January 30, 2024 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
Sankofa is a browser extension that allows you to store pages you visit and query them using Vectara. - vectara/sankofa
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey Hackernews, I'm Ofer, head of developer relations at Vectara. Some of us read a lot of articles on the web, like those on HN, and it seems useful to be able to search the contents of the text we read (using semantic search), or ask questions about it (ChatGPT style). Sankofa is a new browser extension that allows…
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