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The biggest problem with bookmarks isn't the bookmarking; it's the rediscoverability. Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing book
by ahmedfromtunis 3y ago
The biggest problem with bookmarks isn't the bookmarking; it's the rediscoverability.
Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.
And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."
That, or a RAG based solution.
- helboi4 3y agoThanks for the project idea. That sounds amazing. I always forget about very useful bookmarks I have.
- rex123 3y agoThis is the exact problem we're solving at https://www.zenfetch.com https://www.zenfetch.com. Right now, as you're working in Google Docs we surface anything you've saved that's relevant. Will be working on a search integration and other PKM/text editor integrations soon.
- esafak 3y agoIf you have to search the bookmarks themselves are of limited value.
- snappysnap 3y agoOne could argue that you could treat those bookmarks as "personally curated search results"?
- Ringz 3y agoMy solution is quite simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item https://news.ycombinator.com/item? Id=38421121 However, with the disadvantage that I do not use the search in the browser, but the search of the operating system.
- pantulis 3y agoHere's the link, fixed, for the sake of other people's curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121 Also adding that Markdownload is awesome.
- imiric 3y ago> Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed. I think that's an overstatement. I use tags regularly to find bookmarks in Pinboard. They work well since the content was curated by myself. I can find categories of links which can be further filtered into subcategories, etc., until I usually find what I want. It's a great way to have a collection of things I found interesting at some point, and tags and full-text search are useful enough to find them again when I need to. Would I like a RAG type of interface over my bookmarks? Sure. But it's absolutely not required to have a good experience.
- stavros 3y agoI had the same problem back in the day, so I created https://historio.us https://historio.us, which is a search engine over the content of the pages. That way, you don't need to tag things, you have your own personal search engine.
- thayne 3y agoWhat I want is a field where I can write a few sentences on why I thought it was important to bookmark, and include that when I search my bookmarks.
- rchaud 3y agoI used to store links in a Google Sheet for this reason. It's not ideal though as it ads friction to the process of adding a link. I think a better system wouod be one where the bookmark stores either the "link source", i.e. backlink to the site you found the bookmarked link on, or the "search term", I.e. what you were specifically looking for when you bookmarked the page.
- browningstreet 3y agoI slack myself .. for exactly that reason.
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- forgotpwd16 3y agoDiigo can integrate itself in Google results via the browser extension.