On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:09:02AM +0200, Kristoffer Lundén wrote: [..] >"The traditional way of organizing bookmarks is too complicated for >average users. Assigning topics to bookmarks instead of hierarchical >folders is more intuitive. This means a few differences to traditional >bookmarks systems:" > >The condescending words about average users aside, I would like to >request an explanation on how this is more intiutive and furthermore, >what benefits it gives. The simplistic behaviour of picking *one* >folder and sticking your data in it seems to be the most intiutive to >me. There isn't much to be confused about then. > >I can get pretty annoyed in for instance gmail when the only way to say >that a mail is from my school, and about the education in general, and >another mail is also from my school but about a certain class - is to >mark up with several labels, or create separate labels for all these >cases. Actually, I have to create completely separate labels, because >the quick-links only allow to select one label at the time. > >Maybe it would work if the menus allowed to *easily* search on multiple >criteria at once. In a way, that's what a hierarchy does. Frankly, >I've been trying to come up with examples where I would like to reach a >bookmark in several ways, and not coming up with a single one. Plenty >of examples on when I'd just put it in one top level box though, and a >few where it'd make sense to have sublevels to that one. Say >"development/web", "development/epiphany" etc. Those don't make enough >sense with the topics "development" and "web" all by themselves, it's >the combination that does it. I've gotten converted quite recently. I found that my hierarchy in FF became too confusing, and I often ended up having to spend time looking stuff up (did I file that bookmark to linux security under linux or under security?). It just fits me better to use categories rather than a hierarchy. I'm especially fond of being able to file something the I want to check out both under "To check out" and under a more properly named category. I'm also using Delicious to share my bookmarks between my different machines. There is a service for sharing hierarchical bookmark stores for FF, but I didn't like it since it forces me to keep all the bookmarks I want to sync under a specific folder, i.e. I can't mix shared and non-shared bookmarks (further confusing my finding a bookmark). Now all I need to do add the category "Share" to a bookmark. I'm not sure it's more intuitive, it was a long time since I started using web browsers and they've always had hierarchical bookmark folders. I find that categories fits me better, and I think I've become a bit more effective in my browsing by switching to Epiphany. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russel
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