The World Wide Web is a virtual repository of information. As more and more people depend on the web as a tool for research on everything from job hunting to finding a place to eat, keeping track of that information on a personal level is more important than ever.
Too often, we find ourselves recalling a website that we might have visited days, weeks or even months ago that is suddenly relevant, yet unable to find it. Our search history and even similar keyword searches yield nothing. It’s a common problem that’s frustrating and one that developer, Peter Brown has set out to solve with an app called Fetching.io.
Fetching is an app that’s built for laptop and desktop machines and now, also works on mobile and tablet devices. When installed, it caches every single website you visit and stores it in your own personal search engine which you can access anytime you want. So, that awesome Mexican restaurant you read reviews on last month or that product you thought would be the perfect Christmas gift for your mom back in July? Yeah, those… you can easily go back and find them using Fetching.io.
Bookmarking vs. Fetching, What’s the Difference?
You might be thinking, why have an app that keeps track of all the sites you visit when you can just bookmark the sites that you’re interested in? The fact is, most people don’t realize they wanted to save a page to their bookmarks until it’s too late. Plus, bookmarking requires a conscious effort.
Fetching can be installed as a plugin to automatically cache the pages you visit. It also allows you to tag pages with keywords and make notes, allowing you to easily find sites even if you only remember a few keywords. Plus, unlike bookmarks that save a history to your browser, the Fetching app allows for greater privacy control with both cloud-based and computer-based applications, filtering and blacklisting capabilities.
Learn more about the Fetching and get the whole story on why Peter Brown created the app here.
