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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Damn, that's interesting!
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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.