🎯 Background & Motivation

While browsing X (formerly Twitter), users frequently like and bookmark high-value engineering threads, design inspirations, code repositories, and video demos. However, the default experience has severe drawbacks:

  1. Inadequate Search Capabilities: Native X search does not allow accurate keyword filtering across personal bookmarks.
  2. Permanent Data Loss on Deletion: If an author deletes a tweet or deactivates their account, bookmarked insights vanish forever.
  3. Unsorted Clutter: Media, links, and text are mixed without granular media categorization.

LikeMates (Trovault) was built under the motto “Never lose what you loved”: Local-first synchronization, media filtering, and sub-second offline search in a Chrome extension.

🚀 Key Features

  • ❤️ Incremental & Full Sync: Automatically or on-demand sync liked and bookmarked tweets directly from X.
  • 🔒 100% On-Device Privacy (IndexedDB): All tweet texts, author handles, and media metadata are stored in the browser’s local IndexedDB. Zero external servers or third-party API keys required.
  • 🔍 Sub-Second Full-Text Search: Instantly query your archive by keyword across tweet bodies, author names, and handles.
  • 📂 Smart Media Filters: Instant 1-click filtering by Images, Videos, Links, and Pure Text.
  • 📅 Time Machine Navigation: Easily filter items by today, this week, this month, or custom date ranges.

🖼️ Interface Showcase

LikeMates Library LikeMates Settings

🏗️ Architecture (Manifest V3)

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[ X.com Web Page Context ]
       │ Content Script (DOM Observer & Stream Parser)
       ▼
[ Background Service Worker (Manifest V3) ]
       │ Structured Tweet Normalization
       ▼
[ Browser-Local IndexedDB ]
       │
       ├─► [ SidePanel / Popup UI (TypeScript + Tailwind CSS) ]
       ├─► [ Local Tokenized Search Engine ]
       └─► [ JSON / CSV Export Pipeline ]

📈 Shipping, Validation & Ratings

  • Live on Chrome Web Store with 5.0 Star Rating (★★★★★)
  • Engineered to Chrome Extension Manifest V3 specifications
  • Multi-language store listings and UI localization (7 languages: EN / ZH / JA / DE / FR / ES / KO)
  • Offline export & data portability features

🔗 Install & Links