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Given that most of everyone's 'stuff' is now accessed in a browser, it's clear that there's a problem to be solved helping us all keep track of everything. Book
by tconfrey 5y ago
Given that most of everyone's 'stuff' is now accessed in a browser, it's clear that there's a problem to be solved helping us all keep track of everything. Bookmarks clearly don't cut it any more.
It seems crazy to me though to start by reinventing the browser when there's a thriving ecosystem of extensions built using the standard set of APIs supported by all the top browsers. We need better ways to organize and access all our stuff, not a better browser. 'Topic Maps' [1] are an interesting technology in this space.
Search the Chrome Web Store for 'bookmarks manager' or 'session manager' or 'topic manager' - there are hundreds of little companies experimenting and percolating new ways of keeping track of things. Customize Chrome or Edge or FireFox or Vivaldi or Brave etc, don't try to replace them.
[1] https://braintool.org/2021/05/15/Organizing-your-life-with-a-Topic-Manager.html https://braintool.org/2021/05/15/Organizing-your-life-with-a...
- ______- 5y ago> Bookmarks clearly don't cut it any more I've developed a strategy for this. I collect bookmarks in various browsers, and every three months or so I export them as raw HTML files, into a folder, where I then manually review each link and decide whether to put the link into a 'notable' category (where only the best links go in there). I then proceed to sub-categorize these notable links into various topics, as you suggested. I save a lot of chaff type links that seemed important at the time, but after a careful review, I usually discard chaff/low quality type links. I then manually remove the links that were in those browsers and start filling the browser up again with bookmarks, and rinse and repeat this. I sometimes share the links on hackernews/twitter so don't hoard them all to myself ;)