Re: config

[Olof Oberg <mill@pedgr571.sn.umu.se>]

Preben Randhol wrote: 
> Olof Oberg <mill@pedgr571.sn.umu.se> writes:
> 
> | Well, I don't know about you guys, but I rarely view my=20
> | bookmarks from inside Netscape. Occasionally I look at the=20
> | last 50 or so (I have >2500), but 99% of the time I use=20
> | grep to search for what I need.
> 
> One question pops to mind : why 2500 bookmarks? :-)
I bookmark things I find interesting. That means a couple a day.

> | Therefore I would like to have a way to search (with regex)=20
> | for URLs, titles, dates, and most important keywords. It=20
> | would be far easier to type down a couple of keywords (maybe=20
> | extract some from the page itself (meta?)) to associate=20
> | with the bookmark. Then one could search easily and there=20
> | would be no need to waste time indexing the bookmarks manually.
> 
> Yes this could possibly be done in a future release.=20
Of course. Just brainstorming. I need to get a newer egcs and 
glibc to even work on Mnemonic (and I am a bit weary to break 
anything at the end of the semester).

> | I think about half of my bookmarks are unsorted and it will=20
> | take me days to index and sort everything. With the system=20
> | above all that would have been taken care of.
> 
> |=20
> | Adding a "C++" menu would be easy to do with scripting (guile?)=20
> 
> Oh not another language dependency... :-(
Optional.

> | and then just extract all bookmarks with the keyword "C++".
> 
> I don't think most people use META keys to categorise their web
> pages. So unless the mnemonic user is willing to do this when adding
> the bookmarks we will not get any further.
That was in case it would turn out hard to come up with keywords 
oneself. 

> I think it is better to able to drag bookmarks into their category
> (submenu) instead of only adding it blindly into a long bookmark list.
Then you still have to index and sort everything manually. I can 
do that now with Netscape. The only difference would be the support 
for drag and drop (in the case of 3.x anyway).

The actual storage of the file should be of no interest to the user. 
The user should have a powerful and easy to use interface to manipulate 
the bookmarks.

For example what if I have a bookmark to a page about C++ programming 
in good use and then it uses Mnemonic as example. It goes on to make 
an in depth analysis of Mnemonic. 

Should I then put this bookmarks under Programming->C++ or under 
WWW->User_Agents->Mnemonic? Maybe I should make a 
Programming->C++->Case_Analysis or WWW->User_Agents->Mnemonic->Critique.
Or..

Of course right now most people will think hierchally (sp?), but 
I think a relation based view is more efficient.

Maybe both would be possible. 

 /mill

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