Friday 10 February 2006

The Way Forward

We have started to see that lists and hierarchical organisation of information is no longer sufficent for our modern information organisation needs. Some of the better ideas that have emerged so far are search, tagging and "most frequently used" lists. Search lets us find things when we have forgotten where we put them (or when there is no "where" to put them in the first place). Tagging lets us remember what it was about when we find it, and what's related. A "most frequently used" list provides an ever-adapting menu whose sole purpose in life is to remember what we do and make it faster.

So here's the question: why do we have things like a hierarchical structure for our massive hard drives, no "most frequent" websites list in our browsers and have to rely on an add-on to search our own computers at any decent speed?

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I'm now using del.icio.us as my primary bookmarking method.

PPS - The Firefox-based Flock browser provides the most-frequent websites list.

1 comment:

Erin Marie said...

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