On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 1:16:41 PM UTC-4, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > Something that is not appreciated enough is that one's mental map changes > over time, along with one's ideas about categorizing terms and ideas. And > these apparent hierarchies are usually not truly hierarchies - just because > something has been slotted into an existing indented outline does not make > it a proper member of any one hierarchy. Over time, one often forgets > exactly how some term had been categorized, and if it comes up again, the > same term or idea may be fitted into some different structure instead. > This can make it hard to find related ideas, and is something I tried to > provide for in my bookmark manager. >
The subject of searching for browser bookmarks is challenging because you only know two things from the bookmark itself: the URL and the page title. Neither of them have much semantic content. Most of the semantics has to come from the terms you use to file the bookmark. But those terms aren't always stable over time. For example, in my bookmark collection, I have many of my Python-related bookmarks listed under "Python". But most of my javascript-related ones are under "Software/Languages/Javascript". Why aren't they filed consistently, say using "Software/Languages/Python"? Who knows? People aren't consistent, especially when they are filing bookmarks in a hurry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/18a3fe2f-5322-4719-aaf0-c6ba5373f9a8o%40googlegroups.com.
