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hrishi | 5 years ago

This is a great concept, especially the link tracking.

One of my early research papers was about a tab reorganisation UI that tracked the links you clicked to reorganise your tabs to follow your train of thought. In most cases, the flat organisation is the worst, whereas if you follow my pattern of clicking links and moving to different tabs over time, you're halfway to describing (in a way that I can pick back up) my stream of consciousness.

Didn't get too far, for something like this to work it would have to be well integrated with the browser - and with new privacy restrictions, you'd have to end up recompiling a new browser to actually provide enough functionality.

Have you thought about ease of resuming where you left off? Biggest problem for me with Memexes isn't administration (even though it is huge and exponential as you say), it's that the longer it's been since I documented something, the harder it is for me to get back into the same mindset as I did then, with all the pieces still intact and connected.

Seems to me that finding a good representation of the internal mental model will help get over this.

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martijnwalraven|5 years ago

I would be interested in hearing more about your tab reorganisation ideas, because I definitely recognize the pain of not being able to reconnect to a train of thought and have been exploring solutions myself. Is the research paper you mentioned available anywhere?

hrishios|5 years ago

Unfortunately I ended up shelving the project once it became clear that I couldn't go far without rebuilding the browser, and I think things have only gotten worse in terms of what extensions can do.

Here's what I could find from my old folders - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4nxW9GaQXybdX4zKqVsdaE7unI...

It's not much - and I remember getting a little further, but I must've lost the file - but hopefully it eases the discovery of prior art if you end up going down this path.

If you do, would love to hear from you to help or share thoughts!

fragileone|5 years ago

Tree Style Tabs browser extension sounds relevant to what you're describing https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab

steve1820|5 years ago

Interesting points regarding the internal mental model!

I agree, for effective information retrieval we (as humans) need to remember the context/ mindset where/when we consumed the knowledge.

I haven't really thought about this problem. It is definitely something to ponder on.