i-robot

i

Personal redirect server.

Use your URL bar for reaching frequent sites, faster. Largely inspired by corporate environments that set an aliasing/tinyURL service up at http://go/. This one is for your personal use.

My workflow with this:

1. Type i write in the URL bar
2. 💥 redirected to my worklog

Or

1. Type i review
2. 🎉 redirected to https://github.com/notifications

You can live like this too. It's like a console for your browsing.

Installation

Clone this repository, cd to the cloned directory, and install this package.

git clone https://github.com/rgbkrk/i
cd i
npm i

Configuration

Create an i.json like so:

{
  "code": "https://github.com/rgbkrk",
  "write": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/somedocid/edit"
}

Now run the server:

npm run start

Usage

Now visit one of your keywords, like http://i/code. It should redirect.

If you visit http://i, you'll get a listing of all your keywords.

💥

Super mode

If you're using Chrome, you can set i as a search engine so that you can type

i write

Right click your URL bar (Omnibar!):

and click "Edit Search Engines..."

From the search engines page, scroll to the bottom of the search engines section until you see a way to add a new search engine:

Within that section, fill it out with i as the search engine and keyword, followed by http://i/%s as the URL:

🎉 You can now type i rock.