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Re: No Bookmarks

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Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 »

alienpingu wrote: post #10
jordigh wrote: post #9

I don't use phones, so if I have to go somewhere, I have to memorise the route. I enjoy the exercise. I look up the directions on my laptop, mentally rehearse the points of interest that will indicate to me where I need to take particular turns, and then have to put into practice my memory with the actual physical landscape I tour as I follow this route. Sometimes I make mistakes, but correcting them is part of the e…

In my personal experience, when I take a wrong turn, it's impossible to find my way back. I understand if you're describing the route from one large city to another, but if you need to get to a specific street in even a medium-sized city, it's impossible to remember every turn the first time around. how old are you? How can you memorize a new route? Because i am born in the TomTom era and i had google maps on my firs…

Even at unfamiliar places you can probably get by just knowning the general direction you want to go and glancing at street signs.

Highly depends on your location.

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Post by lukifer »

FireInsight wrote: post #4

Based on the title I thought this was a personal call-out to me and others like me who obsessively bookmark/save links and yet seldom even glance at their collection.

This is (tragically) the reason why I remain a tab hoarder: the UI carries an implicit nudge (a costly signal of visual real estate), for my future self to engage with it.

In a similar spirit to OP: it did help mitigate the hoarding, when I began thinking "how hard is it to find this resource/reference again, should I actually need it?". And if it's trivial to google (and mnemonically sticky enough I can trust my future self to remember it), I can close the tab.

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Post by celurian92 »

FireInsight wrote: post #4

Based on the title I thought this was a personal call-out to me and others like me who obsessively bookmark/save links and yet seldom even glance at their collection.

same here. That is why i came to discussion to find out how are people using those.

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Post by nicbou »

I'm a little surprised. How do you manage to remember small, changing bits of information so easily? I'd lose my page every few days.

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Post by michaelbrave »

FireInsight wrote: post #4

Based on the title I thought this was a personal call-out to me and others like me who obsessively bookmark/save links and yet seldom even glance at their collection.

I keep thinking about something like a search engine integration that would suggest relevant bookmarks at the top of your search results. It might have been even cooler back when we had things like delicio.us and if we could have gotten recommended relevant links from people we followed's bookmarks too. But even knowing how to code like I do I sorta can't think of how to do it, maybe a browser extension that injects over google? I guess I've more thought about how it would interact than how to actually make it.

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Post by xtiansimon »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

This is interesting. I took the opposite path. I used to remember page numbers while reading books, just so I could come back without getting lost. That habit started in the School library. These days, I bought a simple, cheap, paintable bookmark, about 100 of them, which my daughters can paint. I have them lying around in books, as I tend to read multiple books at a time. My daughters keep painting them with whateve…

> “I used to remember page numbers while reading books…”

Big fan of marginalia myself.

Re: No Bookmarks

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Post by FireInsight »

michaelbrave wrote: post #16
FireInsight wrote: post #4

Based on the title I thought this was a personal call-out to me and others like me who obsessively bookmark/save links and yet seldom even glance at their collection.

I keep thinking about something like a search engine integration that would suggest relevant bookmarks at the top of your search results. It might have been even cooler back when we had things like delicio.us and if we could have gotten recommended relevant links from people we followed's bookmarks too. But even knowing how to code like I do I sorta can't think of how to do it, maybe a browser extension that injects…

I use Linkding, and there is https://github.com/Fivefold/linkding-injector which does exactly what you described. I don't use it, though. Usually it brings up irrelevant results, and in the rare case that it would have brought up useful ones, the Firefox search bar history-based autocomplete got me there first.
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