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This rant ignores the fact that our technology has failed to provide the average user with a common, ubiquitous, low-effort way to recall all the useful informa
by wintermutestwin 4y ago
This rant ignores the fact that our technology has failed to provide the average user with a common, ubiquitous, low-effort way to recall all the useful information that we can now dig up.
These billion dollar tech cos either think that I'll just be able to search google again when I really need it (what a joke!) or that I'll spend more time using tags to be able to find it again, but that requires a list of tags way to long to be easily fluent with and way too much librarian work on my part.
I have endless lists of bookmarks organized into ~50 categories that are still too broad to be useful (mostly because folder in folder bookmarks are a bad UX in Firefox).
I started using Notion because I like to see URL previews, but that list gets unwieldy fast and it is more of a pain to populate than saving a bookmark.
And now, I am down to a system where I keep 10 browser windows open with up to 40 tabs in each and if a tab gets too stale, I dump it in a bookmark folder and hope I'll find it when I need it. Each window is given a name based on its topic with the Window Titler add-on and uses non-treed ('cause trees are a stupid waste of space) side tabs ('cause top tabs are unreadable and STUPID) with the Sidebery Add-On. Each window with up to 16 pinned tabs that are major sources for that window's topical links. This system actually works for me and requires a low-effort flow to manage information for someone with a huge variety of work, interests and pursuits. I have to use the Total Suspender Add-On to keep Firefox from grinding my machine to a halt due to up to 400 tabs open at once.
What I really want is a browser that has all that out of the box so that it works seamlessly (e.g. Sidebery doesn't recognize Window Titler titles so moving tabs between windows is a huge pain), isn't a pain to setup on a new machine (I hate Mozilla for making it so hard to get rid of the top tabs!!!) and doesn't require me to trust several nearly anonymous Add-On makers.