Articles

Guides for getting the most out of histre, and notes from the people building it.

Developing histre with Vision: A Blind Programmer's Story

Ralph has been a developer at histre since 2021. He describes the screen readers, editors and settings he codes with, what coding without sight is really like, and how it shaped histre's accessibility.

Ralph Quirequire · Oct. 20, 2026

How to Fix Extension Authentication Error

The extension could not find your histre.com login. Log in again, and if you use Firefox, check the extension's permission, containers, and tracking protection.

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · Oct. 20, 2026

Import LinkedIn Results

A simple script to upload a csv with LinkedIn data into histre.com

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · Sept. 16, 2022

Upload your YouTube Subscriptions

Simple script to upload your YouTube subscriptions that you exported via Google Takeout into histre. Google Takeout gives you a csv file when you export your subscriptions.

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · Sept. 15, 2022

History of histre

Screenshots of histre development over time

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · Sept. 24, 2021

Export Chrome Bookmarks

Learn how to export your Chrome bookmarks, and also how to use a much better solution

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · July 27, 2021

Why I built histre

Knowledge tools went to the tinkerers. histre is for everyone else, and that one decision explains everything about how it is built, priced and hosted.

Kirubakaran Athmanathan · March 6, 2019