Post #856940
2024-03-04 08:30 UTC
Replies (3)
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@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 2024-03-04 08:33
Never, of course. I’ll never remember, and I’ll never see it again. So it was a waste of time, and now I have this clutter in my bookmarks. What’s the solution? I think it’s just time, and thought, and conscious effort. I need to have a place — a note, probably — that is dedicated to this sort of thing. That has some sort of commentary, has had some thought put in to it. Is something that I actually care about. Not just ‘a bookmark’ that I casually saved. 2/🧵
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@mattwilcox@mstdn.social 2024-03-04 09:15
@johnnydecimal A bookmark is a "I acknowledge this thing may be important and relevent later; but not now". The problem is that browser UI is still the same dog-shit basic thing from two decades ago. When I "bookmark" a thing, dear browser; index that page, add meta data, and let me tag and full-text search my bookmarks! Be a custom search engine for topics I marked as "this'll be useful... later!".
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@felwert@fedihum.org 2024-03-12 11:34
@johnnydecimal I do agree in general. I’m also guilty of just bookmarking too much stuff for an undefined “later.” It takes effort to actually build a knowledge base. But I also do believe that it’s also a problem that bookmark search is so bad in most systems. Browsers are not great, but bookmarks on Twitter and Mastodon are a useless stash without any chance of ever finding anything again. I’m currently experimenting with a better search tool for Mastodon bookmarks and hope it unearths sth.