Getting a certificate error trying to open this page.
yeah me too. IE throws a warning. In a corporate environment.
Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
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Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
By search i mean the ability to, on the bookmarks page, search not only by the bookmark title but by the URL content itself... Opera, circa 2008: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/indexing-and-searching-in...
Exactly. Thanks! Had no idea that feature existed, going to try it out. Always have Opera i stalled and the UI is cool but frequent crashes (on OSX) and, i admit, mainstreams, make ne not using it much although i do cross html browser tests there
Always have Opera i stalled and the UI is cool but frequent crashes...
I completely understand. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Opera myself. The features and UI are miles ahead, IMHO, but other characteristics are so frustrating. The Windows version doesn't crash often, but there are plenty of web sites that don't get along with it.
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#93Safari's Reading List comes to mind.
Came to my mind as well, both on iOS and OSX.
The article does mention it, though, in the "Various applications and services offer save for later functionality" part, along with other software and services.
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#94There's only two things I use the browser's bookmarks for now - firstly to prime the pump for FF's awesomebar. I rely on that when I delete my history (which I do irregularly during development).
The second thing is bookmarklets, which are also a subversion of the mechanism, but let me customize /across browsers/ which most extension mechanisms don't do.
Glad to see Mozilla tackling the fragmented collection of bookmarks I've ended up with as 'favourites' in Google Reader, Hacker News, twitter, youtube, vimeo....
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#95Aside from the content, this is a fantastic exposition of the techniques of UX design, and since I teach a unit on that I wanted to make sure I'd be able to give the link to my students. But I'm on my home computer right now, and I manage that from my office computer, so I...
...emailed the link to myself. :P
Which is actually an interesting confirmation of several points the article made. Most of my save-for-later is "I want to consume this, but don't have time" and "I want to come back to this momentarily", for which I use the leave-tabs-open strategy rather than bookmarking or emailing. I knew this article would be great almost from the time I saw the title....
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#96A mind map browser history/bookmark system would be the most intuitive. With timestamps and relations between items.
Most of the time when searching through my browsing history I remember a small bit from the page that I want (like a phrase), but not the whole address or title. So searching for something like "find that page about a Python module, which I opened two days ago" would be truly helpful. Hell, even searching by a page's dominant color would be helpful sometimes, since I have a good visual memory.
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#97Reasons why I bookmark pages: 1. I meant to type Ctrl+W and missed slightly 2. I meant to type Ctrl+F and missed slightly 3. I meant to type Ctrl+C and missed slightly My bookmarks are a mish-mash of random pages on which I accidentally pressed Ctrl+D, nothing more. I think I'm a particularly anomalous edge case on this particular issue because as a web developer I tend to flit around between browsers constantly so n…
Instead of having to make sure we have them organized, browsers should just index their content and provide good search. Indexing engines are more than fast enough nowadays.
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#98Related to bookmarks...
I no longer use Firefox and have long since switched to Chrome, but in doing so my bookmarks have become effectively useless. What I mean by this is, in Firefox, one of the greatest (and probably underused) features was the ability to tag individual bookmarks instead of simply pushing them into a single folder.
This meant that, when I wanted to revisit a bookmark later on, I simply had to start typing in the tags (which I always made broad and diverse). By typing in more and more tags that I thought would likely relate to the article I wanted to reach, it would narrow it down. I never had to remember what the article was called, or where it was, or anything like that.
Now if this automatically happened while bookmarking? Some intelligent manner in which the page could be skimmed for keywords or something. Bookmarking and retrieval becomes much simpler...
Just wanted to throw that out as something to consider :)
(Now, one Chrome, I usually just leave tabs open or try to organize into folders and fail miserably :/ )
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#99I am one of the worst offenders of the "keep the tabs open variety". I have several hundreds of them open for months on end. For this rather unusual browsing habit, no other browser other than FF works for me. FF does fine even on my 512MB Pentium-M laptop, Chrome for instance will make such a box unusable . Am somewhat relieved/piqued to see that this behavior is not unique. I have been asked to defend my habit many…
I actually love Chrome for this use case, as I can use the Task Manager view to kill all my tabs while leaving them "open". I additionally made a one-line change to my local build of Chromium so that when I open it all tabs come up "crashed", so I can now manage a nearly infinite number of tabs with almost no memory usage at all.
Re: Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
#100Related to bookmarks... I no longer use Firefox and have long since switched to Chrome, but in doing so my bookmarks have become effectively useless. What I mean by this is, in Firefox, one of the greatest (and probably underused) features was the ability to tag individual bookmarks instead of simply pushing them into a single folder. This meant that, when I wanted to revisit a bookmark later on, I simply had to star…
I use the Firefox address bar as a lightweight version of this. Since it searches URLs as well as titles of sites in your history, you can just type (parts of) words separated by spaces to find old content.