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Posting comments seems to be broken there for me (though I bet that's Ghostery's fault) so instead I'll post it here: My biggest issue with the way browsers do

Posting comments seems to be broken there for me (though I bet that's Ghostery's fault) so instead I'll post it here: My biggest issue with the way browsers do bookmarks currently is that they force them into a tree structure. They're not trees and I hate that I have to put them into one. Tags and labels are where they should be, more like the way things like delicious had them. Even though Firefox has tags, they're not prominent and not the primary way of organizing them, so they're not as easy to use as they should be. Of course each browser has extensions that provide things like what I want, but none polished enough to make integration seamless and make adding new bookmarks painless enough to use, at least so far as I've tried. The other important thing for me is being able to clip portions of a page and being able to annotate a page with notes, references and comments. For all of those reasons, I'm stuck using an even less tailored tool (Evernote) to do my bookmarks. So, here's to hoping that improving bookmarks ends up being the next frontier. Oh and -- by the way, your email validation in the comments here is broken. It thinks +'s are not valid.

riffraff 14y ago
no ghostery here, but comments broken for me too. I think mozilla has the perfect UI to get to your bookmarks via tags and complex hierarchy, through the awesome bar. That is the thing that needs to be improved.. also showing thumbnails? why not, just let me search to get there. Judging by the screenshots, this new UI seem to offer zero improvements in my common task of getting back to something I somewhat remember. But maybe it's awesome who knows.
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shardling 14y ago
"My biggest issue with the way browsers do bookmarks currently is that they force them into a tree structure." I use bookmarks all the time in Firefox, but never, ever think about a hierarchy. You can very quickly search for bookmarks from the URL bar, and tag them if need to add a couple of keywords.
- farrelle25 14y ago
  Bookmarks from the Firefox URL bar are very handy. I have about 1000 bookmarks and have the set the option: "When using the Location Bar, suggest: BOOKMARKS". This gives me fuzzy bookmark matching from the URL bar. Can find any bookmark in about 2 secs. Anything else I need, just google search it from the URL bar.
Tooluka 14y ago
Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000? Also if we imagine some person starting bookmark list from scratch, with tags - he has to A) make complete tag system from the beginning (I've tried, it's not easy) or he'll be forced to re-tag old ones later; B) type in tags (or select) every time he bookmarks site.With folder trees I use one click to drag&drop bookmark to the intended place. Tags are the future but only if someone would be able to automate them completely. On sets with 10-100 bookmarks type of index system is completely irrelevant - you can even keep them in a plain list and still don't waste time.
- JulianWasTaken 14y ago
  "Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000?" I would if it were easier to do so. The extra 2 seconds to do it is the bottleneck, so trimming that is the solution. When I click the star or hit ctrl-d in Chrome (I'm sure it's the same in Firefox), the title of the bookmark is in focus. I almost never change that, so that's useless. Put the tag field in focus, and make tags autocomplete. That'd put me most of the way there. Of course you're right -- prepopulating the field with tags other people used would be a much further step.
  - DanBC 14y ago
    Or try to auto-guess tags you've used previously?
  - padenot 14y ago
    The tag field is focused if I ctrl+d in Firefox. Which is very handy indeed.
    - kbrosnan 14y ago
      Firefox has tag auto-complete as well.
- lttlrck 14y ago
  If you have 10000 bookmarks you need a search engine. That's what "automated tags" are... they don't need inventing.
arturhoo 14y ago
The ability to bookmark the same webpage in different folders of the tree structure would already be a huge improvement.

riffraff 14y ago

no ghostery here, but comments broken for me too. I think mozilla has the perfect UI to get to your bookmarks via tags and complex hierarchy, through the awesome bar. That is the thing that needs to be improved.. also showing thumbnails? why not, just let me search to get there. Judging by the screenshots, this new UI seem to offer zero improvements in my common task of getting back to something I somewhat remember. But maybe it's awesome who knows.

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shardling 14y ago

"My biggest issue with the way browsers do bookmarks currently is that they force them into a tree structure." I use bookmarks all the time in Firefox, but never, ever think about a hierarchy. You can very quickly search for bookmarks from the URL bar, and tag them if need to add a couple of keywords.

farrelle25 14y ago
Bookmarks from the Firefox URL bar are very handy. I have about 1000 bookmarks and have the set the option: "When using the Location Bar, suggest: BOOKMARKS". This gives me fuzzy bookmark matching from the URL bar. Can find any bookmark in about 2 secs. Anything else I need, just google search it from the URL bar.

Tooluka 14y ago

Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000? Also if we imagine some person starting bookmark list from scratch, with tags - he has to A) make complete tag system from the beginning (I've tried, it's not easy) or he'll be forced to re-tag old ones later; B) type in tags (or select) every time he bookmarks site.With folder trees I use one click to drag&drop bookmark to the intended place. Tags are the future but only if someone would be able to automate them completely. On sets with 10-100 bookmarks type of index system is completely irrelevant - you can even keep them in a plain list and still don't waste time.

JulianWasTaken 14y ago
"Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000?" I would if it were easier to do so. The extra 2 seconds to do it is the bottleneck, so trimming that is the solution. When I click the star or hit ctrl-d in Chrome (I'm sure it's the same in Firefox), the title of the bookmark is in focus. I almost never change that, so that's useless. Put the tag field in focus, and make tags autocomplete. That'd put me most of the way there. Of course you're right -- prepopulating the field with tags other people used would be a much further step.
- DanBC 14y ago
  Or try to auto-guess tags you've used previously?
- padenot 14y ago
  The tag field is focused if I ctrl+d in Firefox. Which is very handy indeed.
  - kbrosnan 14y ago
    Firefox has tag auto-complete as well.
lttlrck 14y ago
If you have 10000 bookmarks you need a search engine. That's what "automated tags" are... they don't need inventing.

arturhoo 14y ago

The ability to bookmark the same webpage in different folders of the tree structure would already be a huge improvement.