Post AufNLjBqFu0AvL91lo by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
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(DIR) Post #AuanXDbN9Sp3RoQV1M by Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net
2025-05-29T17:03:44Z
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How are your bookmark folders looking these days? 🤔A) Neatly sorted into folders like a digital librarianB) 396 links dumped into a folder called “Mess”C) A glorious disaster that still gets the job done#Bookmarks #Vivaldi #Browser #Apps #Tech
(DIR) Post #AuanXErMTVCrLguma8 by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-29T17:05:04Z
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@Vivaldi FOlders metaphor = stupid.fuzzy search is all that one needs
(DIR) Post #Auatp6ChzjGdRPnd8C by thalskarth@frikiverse.zone
2025-05-29T18:15:30Z
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@JohnGritt @Vivaldi t I can't agree with you. Searching helps only when you know what you're looking for, but otherwise having everything mixed up makes it impossible to find anything. I have 3000+ bookmarks; when I need a site on ‘whatever’, I know it's in the ‘whatever and related’ folder. Searching is useless if I only remember the topic. The folder gives context and limits it to 5–10 bookmarks, not all 3000
(DIR) Post #AuauqINUJltfRQyYt6 by thalskarth@frikiverse.zone
2025-05-29T18:18:14Z
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@JohnGritt @VivaldiTL;DR:In short, the folder metaphor may not be useful in your use case, but that doesn't make it stupid.
(DIR) Post #AuauqJNWb7WKXq06aG by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-29T18:26:56Z
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@thalskarth @Vivaldi OK. Revised: The folder metaphor is for the Stupid. Cheers! The gif shows effectively the same: searching for a file vs hunting for one. Bookmarking = Sophie's choice to store and hunting to retrieve. It is not a good use of computing power nor of a man's time.
(DIR) Post #AuauxgGZtoVNYdGVhg by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-29T18:28:18Z
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@thalskarth @Vivaldi It is fine to disagree with me.I bet I could make better use of your 3k bookmarks than you can merely by FZF'ing those knowing the likely keywords in webpage titles.
(DIR) Post #AucBSXKIyq5LEUhgie by publicvoit@graz.social
2025-05-30T09:07:48Z
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@JohnGritt @thalskarth @Vivaldi Sorry, this is a very opinionated statement.In research, this is quite well studied.You can learn more about that in my PhD thesis on https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtmlIn short: most people prefer #navigation for local #fileretrieval but #search for the web.Different psychological effects do participate here.I can also add another opinionated statement: #fzf is way too cumbersome compared to direct #teleportation concept based on #recency. 😜#filemanagement #folders #directories
(DIR) Post #Aucr0fgSVidR7RSewa by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-30T16:53:27Z
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@publicvoit @thalskarth @Vivaldi "PhD thesis" = regurgitating dogma for a banana sticker.PS nice self-referential appeal to authority fallacy
(DIR) Post #AuctZjhrkJaXdfy2KG by publicvoit@graz.social
2025-05-30T17:22:09Z
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@JohnGritt @thalskarth @Vivaldi Oh, your statement suggests that you did not understand the scientific process, its internal checks, the way thesis documents are developed over multiple projects, on top of many many years of experience shared by previous researchers embedded into stat-of-the-art researchers you would meet when you would spend that much time, effort and sweat in a research area of your choice.At least, you did find the right Mastodon instance for that kind of fact-ignoring attitude: you're certainly no authority with this mind-set. 🤷And I though that those people are not that common in the Fediverse.Just to be clear on this: I didn't send you the link of my work to self-promote my thesis. I sent it because of all the books and scientific papers cited because this was exactly my field of study: local file retrieval and how people do it, prefer it and how they behave when confronted with an alternative I developed.
(DIR) Post #AucvTpMQ0l2LLUFIRc by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-30T17:41:54Z
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@publicvoit @thalskarth @Vivaldi Wow, that is a lengthy hallucination your part.Your hubris is off the charts. You come across as middling intellectually and insufferable, the personality of a gnat.Good luck!!
(DIR) Post #AucwjPVbzkPNktXYZM by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-30T17:57:33Z
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@publicvoit @thalskarth @Vivaldi Bottom line: A computer is an automation machine for storage and retrieval of data, if shaped, then information.If one replicates pre-computer age behavior, e.g., secretarial filing, then there is little reason to have computers. Further, one is being incredibly inefficient and and expensively so.
(DIR) Post #AucwkFlhhAB5prT8s4 by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-30T17:57:42Z
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@publicvoit @thalskarth @Vivaldi I know that you wish to be right (easily psychological trap of most) because you have dedicated your identity to this ("my field", "my thesis"), but you are flat out wrong.You seem to be European. Being wrong back lacking awareness thereof is a common European trait.good luck!
(DIR) Post #AufLyjXwfELBPmxGYy by tr3k@social.vivaldi.net
2025-05-31T21:49:47Z
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@JohnGritt @thalskarth @Vivaldi That's funny. You present a Linux example and argue against folder structures. 😆
(DIR) Post #AufNLjBqFu0AvL91lo by JohnGritt@noauthority.social
2025-05-31T22:05:14Z
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@tr3k @thalskarth @Vivaldi Linux lacks folders. Linux has paths. the example, of course shows how fuzzy search (right) beats trying to find things in hierarchy (left).