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Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

csdvrx wrote: post #100
zenkat wrote: post #84

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But Google indexes the whole web . I want a search that works just over the articles I've read. "What was that article I read a few months back that talked about why you should be able to explain why a fence exists before tearing it down?". It works be perfect for the discussion I'm having with my team right now, but I can't remember the name of the stupid law or where I came across it . Google is useless in these si…

Chromium and Firefox have, in the form of a sqlite database. You can and should use it. Even if you don't directly, typing in the address bar usually plucks from your bookmarks first.

Firefox only matches the page title and the URL, plus the search box doesn't allow querying by time. Those are the two most common things I need from my bookmark storage.

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by sodimel »

_dain_ wrote: post #45
sodimel wrote: post #15

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> you can just as easily google for I can't find most of the links I saved by using a search engine, and I think that's part of the problem.

I just save webpages I find interesting and throw them all into a single folder. When I want to find something I use grep. This beats link rot.

This is an interesting concept, but it lacks the "share what you find" idea that's behind my vision of the web :P

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by causi »

giorgioz wrote: post #105
causi wrote: post #63

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I'm personally pretty happy with the bookmarking on Chrome. I try to stick with only enough links to be visible in the Bookmarks bar. That's like saying "I'm pretty happy with the address bar. I try to only click links and avoid ever typing in a URL."

No it's not. It's a conscious minimalist choice. My booksmark bar in Chrome fits 18 links. There is more links than the websites I use daily or even monthly. I think having more links than that it's HOARDING. You have the feeling of creating value by saving the links but in practice you won't use most of them and anyway you have history and search to help you out. Chrome even remove the bookmark bar by default. You h…

You're just not a bookmark user. Many people are, and Chrome is a much worse browser for those people than, say, Firefox where you can display a persistent bookmarks column. I have a folder with a couple dozen bookmarks of webcomics I read. I have a bookmarks folder with studies and papers regarding points of contentious online discussion I can reference without relying on Google. I have a folder of blogs I enjoy. I have a folder of bookmarks for various projects I find interesting, and every couple of weekends I pick one and give it my best shot. I have a folder of reference pages and sales pages for my project car.

in practice you won't use most of them

No, you won't use most of them. Because you're not a bookmarks user.

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by lubujackson »

throwamon wrote: post #78
timoth3y wrote: post #65

Alternate Take: - Bookmarking is not broken. Bookmarking works just fine. What's broken is what we want to do with the bookmarks once we have them. The problem is we don't know exactly what that is. We tell ourselves that it's to "review it later", but that's not really it. It it were it would be simple to block out some time and do that, but we never actually do. We don't know why we really make those bookmarks. Boo…

For me I often feel it's a refusal to accept that life is short and I'll never have time to explore every single thing that has ever interested me in enough depth, and that no matter how much I learn and explore in the time I do have, I'll never be satisfied. So I keep on piling bookmarks on top of bookmarks and thus avoid having to choose what I will intently dedicate my time to. I gotta bookmark this comment and re…

There is an idea that might make you feel better - personal libraries (or bookmarks, in this case) shouldn't be just be a collection of books read but of books one would like to read or have on hand for future use.

This change in perspective turns your library from a "failure of accomplishment" to a "curated resource for future enrichment".

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by 15charslong »

csdvrx wrote: post #103
15charslong wrote: post #92

So basically I tried to solve the 'Bookmark Problem' by creating a simple user focused search engine, user builds a list of bookmarks, and the app, Mrkff, allows you to search your bookmarks as if it were google, but tailored to your own content. If you would allow me to plug my own personal bookmarking app - Mrkff [0] - pronounced `Mark off`. I went through YC in 2019 for it, and I launched it in 2020. I also built…

Have you considered B2B? A lot of small companies would love shared bookmarks to have some employees discover more easily things that were previously bookmarked by other employees.

Like a shared knowledge base? I hadn't thought about it like this before, but thank you. As I'm writing this all the possibilities are just flooding my mind. I will be looking into this for V2. Thank you so very much.

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by bee_rider »

WJW wrote: post #47
bee_rider wrote: post #41

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Note taking is a memorization ritual for some people. Notes taken but not reviewed have still done their job if it helps the person remember.

True, up to a point. Taking one of the sibling comments as an example, by the time you have accumulated 20.000 notes the older notes will definitely start getting "crowded out" if you don't review them.

For sure.

I think there are two types of memories, and two types of notes as a result -- there's specific figures where you might only have to remember it for a couple days, and the exact value might be important, so that note/memory's value is very temporal. Then there's the stuff like problem solving strategies, where hopefully that information is integrated into your brain at some deeper level. The former might never be looked at again if it turns out you don't need the figure, the latter might never be looked at if the integration was successful.

Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by [deleted] »

zenkat wrote: post #84
hliyan wrote: post #77

My theory: the larger your bookmark collection grows, the more indistinguishable it becomes from Google. It basically becomes a curated search index. The closest I have come to using bookmarks is through Firefox address bar suggestions from my browsing history.

But Google indexes the whole web . I want a search that works just over the articles I've read. "What was that article I read a few months back that talked about why you should be able to explain why a fence exists before tearing it down?". It works be perfect for the discussion I'm having with my team right now, but I can't remember the name of the stupid law or where I came across it . Google is useless in these si…

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Re: Ideas that have been beaten to death

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Post by michaelsalim »

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #97
TrailMixRaisin wrote: post #85

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I think you describe the real problem here. For me I just skip the bookmarking part. If I want to come back to something later, I just leave the tab open. This was a good solution because 2-3 years ago there came an inevitable browser crash and all the open tabs were lost. If you could not remember them, they most likely are not that important. Unfortunately these hard resets do not occur any more. So I have to close…

Hello, fellow 100+ tab club member. How do you keep your tabs organized? I used Tree Style Tab plus an extension to aggressively unload background tabs. I wish there were a browser where a vertical tree of tabs was the default tan interface instead of a hack around an inferior horizontal bar of tabs.

I used the same extension but now moved to https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery. You can group tabs, set rules (like automatically move to group X if URL matches Y) and much more. Best of all, you can save a snapshot of your tabs to open in the future instead of relying on restoring previous session.
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