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The problem is that browsers have a broken model of memory: 1 - Tabs are current attention. 2 - Bookmarks are long-term memory, but don't store content, only
by bane 5y ago
The problem is that browsers have a broken model of memory:
1 - Tabs are current attention.
2 - Bookmarks are long-term memory, but don't store content, only meta-data.
What browsers need is
1 - Current attention
2 - Working memory, where old tabs automatically capture content and slide off into some kind of easy to recall state, but are no longer tabs
3 - Bookmarks, but with content storage, better organization, indexing, and retrieval.
Evolution spent billions of years to arrive at this kind of scheme, we should mimic it.
- cookiengineer 5y agoThis literally was the primary reason to build my peer to peer browser that has a persistent cache which can be shared with other (local) peers. I think the cache needs to be persistent and offline ready, ignoring ETags and other stupid headers. Otherwise it's a useless cache that is not controlled by the user.