5 ms·

I’m honestly very okay with this “search-first” mentality the author claims Google promotes. I’ve never organized my photos anymore thanks to Google Photos ama

I’m honestly very okay with this “search-first” mentality the author claims Google promotes. I’ve never organized my photos anymore thanks to Google Photos amazing search, no more time wasted organizing windows media player albums like in the old times thanks to Spotify, I never organize my notes on Notes app but can always find old stuff, my Google Drive is a bit more organized but still I basically go by recent items or search all the time I think we are just so overwhelmed with information nowadays it’s impossible to keep organizing it, why not let machines just find what we want? Now I do agree that browsers search on bookmarks sucks, and I like a lot to bookmark everything so I can find it later, building my own personal index, to solve that I built an extension that crawls my bookmarks and allows me to search better on them later (it’s called Cataloger if you are interested)

wruza 5y ago
Nice, but please tell how am I supposed to search for bookmarks I made in japanese section of xvideos? we are just so overwhelmed with information nowadays it’s impossible to keep organizing it, why not let machines just find what we want whenever we need them Then you don’t need bookmarks. You bookmark for a reason, and one of these is that you may not remember exact wording and use other cues like when you did it, what was around, how it looked like on a thumbnail.
- dillondoyle 5y ago
  LOL. I have a possible solution. I basically add tags when bookmarking and categorize distinct 'tastes' by adding typed keywords into the bookmark text. Though that's an argument that standard search alone isn't enough.
- rchaves 5y ago
  > one of these is that you may not remember exact wording that’s exactly the reason to have a good search, I usually always remember a word or at least the general idea of what the thing I’m trying to find was about, a good enough search like Google understand meaning, even if I don’t use the exact words > please tell how am I supposed to search for bookmarks I made in japanese section of xvideos? I don’t know, how does xvideos or YouTube does it? You do the same, but with a very limited corpus of just your bookmarks it will be way easier

wruza 5y ago

Nice, but please tell how am I supposed to search for bookmarks I made in japanese section of xvideos? we are just so overwhelmed with information nowadays it’s impossible to keep organizing it, why not let machines just find what we want whenever we need them Then you don’t need bookmarks. You bookmark for a reason, and one of these is that you may not remember exact wording and use other cues like when you did it, what was around, how it looked like on a thumbnail.

dillondoyle 5y ago
LOL. I have a possible solution. I basically add tags when bookmarking and categorize distinct 'tastes' by adding typed keywords into the bookmark text. Though that's an argument that standard search alone isn't enough.
rchaves 5y ago
> one of these is that you may not remember exact wording that’s exactly the reason to have a good search, I usually always remember a word or at least the general idea of what the thing I’m trying to find was about, a good enough search like Google understand meaning, even if I don’t use the exact words > please tell how am I supposed to search for bookmarks I made in japanese section of xvideos? I don’t know, how does xvideos or YouTube does it? You do the same, but with a very limited corpus of just your bookmarks it will be way easier