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index ALL and pinpoint SOME

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 [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] 23:52, 15 May 2006 (ACST)
+== index ALL and pinpoint SOME ==
+Hi all,
+I am extremely surprised that even in Firefox 2 we still have no more than this completely obsolete and unpractical bookmark functionality to go back where we once were (apart from history of course).
+The solution is so simple! Of course the hierarchical organization of
+bookmarks is a nonsense and we'd be better off with a keyword/tag approach.
+Yet the solution I would retain is even simpler to implement and use:
+just put ALL the visited URLs back to a user chosen period of time in a local or remote htdig/glimpse style database, storing the last visits date as well. Also allow the user to add an extra pinpoint to URLs of particular interest to him/her and you're done!
+Indexing everything is important so that the user does not have to worry about not forgetting to bookmark, especially when there are several pages of interest within the same website.
+Well now OK the index might get big if an extensive surfer wants several years of storage. But this should not normally grow beyond the capacity of present hard disks. And remote storage is of course an option.
+Why looking further for awkward and complicated schemes most users will
+neglect to learn ?
+A functionally equivalent approach would be to ask Google to add your name, the date and your eventual pinpoint in their database when you visit a site ;-)