This project makes me wish we were all still using something like del.icio.us to organize and favorite our websites. I suppose it would be a privacy nightmare today and would be overrun with bots. I just miss the whole tagging (vs nested folder) way of organizing notes and personal libraries. Like a building a personal multidimensional Dewey decimal system.
Tagging used to be the cool way to solve these kinds of library/search problems and you found it more developed and more often in note taking, web favorites, recipe collecting, email, personal library cataloguing, photo collections, etc. I suppose it feels a bit clunky compared to the natural language search people have gotten used to. But, I liked browsing by tag clouds. And natural language searching has always felt worse to me than using more structured search syntax more like an SQL query than a question. I always hated Ask Jeeves and Clippy and now it feels impossible to navigate the Internet without interacting with their mutant descendants.
This project makes me wish we were all still using something like del.icio.us to organize and favorite our websites. I suppose it would be a privacy nightmare today and would be overrun with bots. I just miss the whole tagging (vs nested folder) way of organizing notes and personal libraries. Like a building a personal multidimensional Dewey decimal system.
Tagging used to be the cool way to solve these kinds of library/search problems and you found it more developed and more often in note taking, web favorites, recipe collecting, email, personal library cataloguing, photo collections, etc. I suppose it feels a bit clunky compared to the natural language search people have gotten used to. But, I liked browsing by tag clouds. And natural language searching has always felt worse to me than using more structured search syntax more like an SQL query than a question. I always hated Ask Jeeves and Clippy and now it feels impossible to navigate the Internet without interacting with their mutant descendants.