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HistoryMind

Discover your intellectual blind spots. HistoryMind analyzes your browsing history with Claude AI and reveals the knowledge gaps hiding in plain sight.

HistoryMind


What it does

Most browser analytics tools tell you how much you visited a site. HistoryMind tells you what it means.

It reads your browsing history, clusters your reading by topic, and then asks: what related areas are you systematically ignoring?

Features

  • Topic clustering — Groups your browsing into 4-7 intellectual categories with engagement depth (deep/moderate/surface)
  • Blind spot detection — Finds 4-5 adjacent knowledge areas you should be exploring but never do
  • Breadth score — Rates your intellectual diversity on a 1-10 scale
  • Specific recommendations — 5 concrete resources, thinkers, or questions to explore
  • Privacy-first — Your history goes directly from your browser to your Anthropic API key. We never see it.

Setup

  1. Install the extension (Chrome or Firefox)
  2. Get an Anthropic API key (free to sign up, ~$0.01-0.05 per analysis with Claude Haiku)
  3. Click the HistoryMind icon, enter your key, choose your time window, click Analyze

Install

Chrome

  1. Download or clone this repo
  2. Go to chrome://extensions/
  3. Enable Developer mode (top right)
  4. Click Load unpacked and select this folder

(Chrome Web Store submission pending)

Firefox

  1. Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
  2. Click Load Temporary Add-on
  3. Select manifest.json from this folder

(Firefox Add-ons submission pending)


How it works

  1. Reads your browser history via the chrome.history API
  2. Extracts domains and page titles, filters out noise (search engines, social media, shopping)
  3. Sends the top 80 domains (titles + visit counts) to Claude Haiku
  4. Claude identifies topic clusters, engagement depth, and blind spots
  5. Results render in a full-page analysis view with animated charts

No server. No tracking. No account required beyond your Anthropic API key.


Privacy

  • Browser history is read locally in your browser
  • Domain names and page titles (no full URLs) are sent to Anthropic's API using your personal API key
  • Anthropic's privacy policy governs what they do with API data
  • Nothing is sent to any server we control

Tech stack

  • Manifest V3 browser extension
  • Vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks)
  • Claude Haiku via direct API call
  • chrome.history API for data collection
  • CSS animations for the results visualization

Roadmap

  • Chrome Web Store listing
  • Firefox Add-ons listing
  • Freemium backend (so no API key required for free tier)
  • Week-over-week comparison ("your reading diversity increased by 2 points this week")
  • Export analysis as PDF or share link
  • Exclude/include domains customization

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Browser extension: AI analysis of your browsing history reveals intellectual blind spots and knowledge gaps. Chrome + Firefox. Powered by Claude.

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