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<small><em>I invented this Tag Button this morning.</em></small> | |||
== Introduction == | |||
I was thinking about bookmarks the other night and about how much they suck and about how much I hate them. | |||
First off, bookmarking as a concept is dead. We should let it go. Some other browsers have renamed bookmarks as "Favourites" but that's a pretty meaningless semantic/cosmetic change. | |||
What follows is a somewhat haphazard brainstorm of my thoughts and ideas about bookmarking, browser history, and tagging. | |||
== Why not use a Social Bookmarking service? == | |||
Many would suggest that the new “Social Bookmarking�? movement (and associated extensions, tools, visualizations, and such) is the answer to all my bookmarkish problems, but I disagree. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us have two major and unacceptable drawbacks for me: | |||
# I have absolutely zero interest in sharing (all of) my bookmarks. My bookmarks, for the most part, reflect my changing interests and surf habits over time. I would consider it a fairly serious breach of personal privacy where those to be tracked (or trackable). If I decide to share my bookmarks, I want the option for it to be anonymous, and I want it to be able to share only particular subsets of my entire collection. | |||
# I don’t want to be dependent on an external online service for storing and retrieving my bookmarks. I want them to be local, with a backup/syncable version held in a secure central location. If that central location goes offline for whatever reason, I don’t want my bookmarks to go with it. I also don’t want ‘net lag to make accessing my bookmarks slow and crappy. | |||
== Bookmarks are Dead, All Hail Tagging == | |||
My idea is that we replace bookmarks entirely with the tagging concept. Instead of bookmarking a page, subscribing to an RSS feed, blah blah, you just tag it. Tagging an item automatically stashes that URL into your profile's tags file/database. If you're tagging a web feed, it automatically turns it into a Live bookmark (although we need to get rid of the "bookmark" term entirely...it's not a book). | |||
As it stands, browsers are adding "there's a feed here" indicators to the address bar. Our browser treats that as a "Store this as a Live Bookmark" button (which is sort of unuseful, but whatever). My initial idea (which is probably crappy, but that's why we have Beltzner) is to add to or replace the Feed button (the orange thing) with a Tag button. | |||
Here’s a (plausibly ill-informed) mockup of what I mean: | |||
http://dria.org/images/tagging/TagButton2.png | |||
== Tag Suggest == | |||
== Searching == | |||
== Tag Management == | |||
=== Three-Pane Panel === | |||
=== Two-Pane Panel === | |||
=== Find-Ahead Search === | |||
== Syncing == | |||
== Tag Sharing == | |||
== Default Tags == | |||
== History Integration == | |||
== Auto-Tagging == | |||
== Bayesian Training == | |||
== In Conclusion... == | |||