DO-SAY-GO/tdf

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

TDF (Tree Document Format) is a pair of native desktop apps for capturing live web browsing sessions into portable, offline-replayable .tdf archives (compressed, optionally encrypted SQLite databases). Tree Grower (paid, closed-source) captures pages via WebDriver BiDi/CDP, while the free Tree Player replays them byte-for-byte without a proxy or network.

Use cases

• archive web pages for offline reading
• preserve websites before they disappear or change
• create portable snapshots of browsing sessions
• share web research collections as a single file
• replay captured websites byte-for-byte offline
• build a personal memex of the web
• combat link rot in saved bookmarks

When to choose

• you need deterministic, byte-for-byte offline replay of dynamic web pages
• you want one portable archive file per web collection instead of scattered screenshots or links
• you need multi-browser capture (Chrome, Firefox, Chromium) rather than Chrome-only tooling
• you want optional AES-256-GCM encryption of archived collections

When to avoid

• you need open-source software you can audit or modify - the TDF apps are proprietary and closed-source
• you need free capture tooling - only the Player is free; creating archives requires a paid license
• you need Safari support - it is not yet available
• you want a server-side or headless bulk-crawling pipeline rather than interactive browser capture

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web-scraping search-engine compression file-system gui web-development files developer-tools privacy windows cross-platform web-archive offline-replay browser-capture memex digital-preservation sqlite-archive link-rot proprietary search macos linux desktop

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