Bookmarks of the Future

Bookmarks

Probably not the bookmarks (UI) of the future.

• Doesn't accomodate visual thinkers
• No sense of information hierarchy
• Encourages massively nested folders (relevant article)
• Separate window
• Not prominent in the UI
• Fundamentally built for organizing, not actually using

We have bookmarks, so what's up with these things?

People like social bookmarking!

But I'm not convinced that social features are the only reason...

Hypothesis

Part of the problem is the way bookmarks are accessed and managed in the browser

(see related research by Brian Groudan and Diane Loviglio)

Panorama

(aka Tab Groups)

Back to bookmarks.

What can we learn from elsewhere?

Mozaic

(It also does tab groups and history.)

Working (buggy) add-on prototype.
Would love contributions!