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I don't know if you want to go into it, but have you considered tackling the "search" problem by creating some kind of advanced bookmarking/local indexing brows
by macawfish 7y ago
I don't know if you want to go into it, but have you considered tackling the "search" problem by creating some kind of advanced bookmarking/local indexing browser extension?
I find that I use google for stuff that I've already discovered. I believe that Chrome has intentionally impeded its bookmarking tools to make users more reliant on search... I realize that Chrome lets you search for stuff you've bookmarked in the top bar, but the flow seems designed to point you toward the default search engine.
A good bookmarking/page caching tool with a streamlined, locally indexed quick-find tool would cut my reliance on Google by a lot.
Overall I'm pretty dissatisfied with existing browsers' bookmarking tools, but am hopeful that offline-first browsers like Beaker Browser will tackle this problem in a serious way.
- ubercow13 7y agoThe Firefox address bar works like you want basically. Searches bookmarks (and history) and generally prioritises them above other results.
- macawfish 7y agoBut does it index bookmarked pages locally, full text search their contents and present the results in a quickly browsable list with context? Cause that would be nice. Especially if integrated with an offline caching/browsing feature.