There’s a joke about how when someone dies, the first thing that they want done after their death is to have their browser history cleared. After all sometimes we do perform searches and visit websites that could be potentially embarrassing, like trying to Google up an infection you have, or a weird question, and so on.
However browser history is also useful as it lets you keep track of the websites you’ve visited in the event you want to revisit them again, but most browsers don’t let you keep browser histories for too long, and even if they do, it tends to be very messy as it’s basically the websites you’ve visited in chronological order. Well if you would love to organize your browser history and turn it into a treasure trove of past information, Fetching could be a service worth checking out.
Developed by Peter Brown, Fetching is a plug-in for your browser. It basically saves your browsing history onto your hard drive if you’re a Mac user, and for Windows users it will store the data in the cloud. As you can see in the screenshot above, Fetching lets you organize your browsing history by adding notes to them and by adding tags, which in turn lets you search your history faster.
It’s an interesting concept and if you’re the sort that loves to keep things organized, perhaps this is a plug-in that you will want to download for yourself. It should be noted that Fetching does not store anything opened in incognito or private mode, so if you absolutely don’t want a particular browsing session to be saved, then you should switch modes for that.
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