Automatic #tagging, categorizing and searching of bookmarks using AI

[Mutzu]

Noble knights,
PLEASE BRING order to the chaotic pile of roaming, riotous writings!

This could be done within a tab.

[Jon]

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[Mutzu]

The concept of automatically tagging, categorizing, and searching bookmarks through AI could be extended by using bookmarks as a knowledge base using AI.

[Jon]

Similar idea here: Intelligent assistant to organize new bookmarks while saving them 

[Mutzu]

This could be done with a very small, local AI model specialized for tagging and categorizing!

[forrie]

This post is a few months old, but even more relevant today.  Every other product is jumping on board the AI wagon.  I know I'm not alone in collecting a pile of bookmarks (mine is like an ocean! LOL), because... well, first I'm lazy but second the internal bookmark management is not that great.

Enter AI.

Firefox is probably already experimenting with AI internally, but getting AI to help you sort your bookmarks into some order, even based on directives or other instructions, is totally doable today.

I believe this functionality is important enough that it should be a part of the browser.

When can we expect something like this?

[forrie]

AI for Bookmarks Organization and Categorization

Integrate AI to help organize, sort and categorize bookmarks. 

Like many people, I've hoarded bookmarks over time.  I also tend to CTRL-D (save bookmark) and "I'll do it later" and of course I never do (GRIN).   Imagine having an AI function that will automatically sort these saved items in a meaningful way -- based on some essential training and fine-tuned with user feedback.  Dead links could be detected and sorted (or deleted).

I think this would be a very appealing core feature of the browser.  Nobody else is doing this, that I can tell.

[forrie]

So to prove that this is doable, I uploaded my Firefox bookmarks JSON file to ChatGPT.  Literally, it's saved me hours (days?) of frustrating work.  Now, with an API and proper instruction to the AI, this could be integrated into the browser and fine-tuned based on user preferences.

Embarassingly, I have bookmarks that I've hoarded going back to 2010!  I assume many of those are dead links, but I also took the "Other Bookmarks" (the ones I collect because I'm too lazy) and it's helped organize and categorize.

[Mutzu]

Great! Thank you for your engagement, @forrie! I agree with every point you mention. I've already spent hours for sorting my bookmarks. 😅

I found a plugin, Spellbook, that makes it possible to search for a folder within the bookmarks when adding a new one.

This saves me some time since I have so many categories and the native bookmark dialog is pretty cumbersome to find the right folder quickly.

[lionelw]

Love this idea, and I think the add-on developer community can come up with solutions, taking the burden off core Firefox developers. But to do that, we need a WebExtension API for accessing tags:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/allow-add-ons-to-have-access-to-bookmark-s-tags-field/idi-p/458

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916

[forrie603]

At this point, I wonder about how AI can help make this experience better for everyone.  Someone wrote an obscure process that analyzes your bookmarks and categorizes them, which led me to test ChatGPT.  I was able to upload my bookmarks and have a "discussion" about automatically categorizing and organizing.  This was a little while ago, and it did a pretty good job.   I'm sure with the correct coding, direction, etc., this could be an entirely different experience.

I am (always been!) guilty of bookmarking so much stuff.  I'm more apt to do this as placing them in a folder or tagging them take some time (and I'm lazy).  I'm sure I am not alone with this.

The real VALUE here that Mozilla could create is making it easier for us to collect and categorize data, but also this could branch into many different areas of the browser experience.

[ FYI, the signon and post process here is lousy -- I had no idea a duplicate got posted, and I can't even delete it ]