Automatic bookmark categorisation?
January 4, 2020 7:09 PM Subscribe
I have more than 2000 bookmarks in my "other" folder. They are unorganised. It's 2020. We have machine learning. There must be a service that can auto-categorise these into folders/tags for me. Frankly I'm surprised Google doesn't do it already. What does?
Ideally this would be free. More importantly, though, it wouldn't have ridiculous permissions. I'm willing to pay for something that won't be a privacy disaster. (I looked at FavSync, which I think can do what I want, but it wants read and write permissions for everything I enter on any webpage, and permission to redirect me to different pages than I open, which, lol no.)
It should even be possible as a one-off thing that doesn't get access to Chrome at all - I can export my bookmarks, it could organise them, and I could import them again. But I'll settle for some kind of Chrome or Firefox integration if that's all there is.
Ideally this would be free. More importantly, though, it wouldn't have ridiculous permissions. I'm willing to pay for something that won't be a privacy disaster. (I looked at FavSync, which I think can do what I want, but it wants read and write permissions for everything I enter on any webpage, and permission to redirect me to different pages than I open, which, lol no.)
It should even be possible as a one-off thing that doesn't get access to Chrome at all - I can export my bookmarks, it could organise them, and I could import them again. But I'll settle for some kind of Chrome or Firefox integration if that's all there is.
Pinboard makes suggestions, but they’re based on obvious title and metadata words. When I’m keeping a link for those reasons, a search engine on the web will find it nearly as well. The more personal context I have for keeping a link, the less possible it is to specify that context automatically.
If you want to use machine learning to make an automated lollusc-categorizer, the first thing you need is a huge corpus of material that is accurately lollusc-categorized.
posted by clew at 12:28 PM on January 6, 2020
If you want to use machine learning to make an automated lollusc-categorizer, the first thing you need is a huge corpus of material that is accurately lollusc-categorized.
posted by clew at 12:28 PM on January 6, 2020
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posted by Bangaioh at 5:52 AM on January 5, 2020