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.

[mc510]

When saving a bookmark, Firefox provides a small dialog that allows you to select a folder in which to save the bookmark as well as adding some tags. If you've got a lot of folders, including nested folders, it can be difficult to find the correct one using this dialog.

What I propose is:

(1). Add a "search" box at the top of the dialog. User enters a word (or a few words), and FF searches the names of all folders, and the URL and page titles of all bookmarks in each folder, ranks the quality of hits, and offers a short list of the existing folders that seem like the most likely place to file said new bookmark. If user doesn't like the suggestions, they can ignore and use the folder selection process as it currently exists.

(2) A more intelligent version of (1). Same idea, except user does not need to enter a search term. Firefox takes the URL and the title of the page that is being bookmarked and searches against all existing folder names and bookmarks, and then offers a short list of the existing folders that seem like the most likely place to file said new bookmark.

(2a) Same as (2), except Firefox also extracts keywords from the text of the webpage that is being saved, and uses those keywords to identify the best existing folders. Only worthwhile, of course, if (2) alone doesn't have enough information to give good recommendations.

(3) Autogenerate tags. Firefox analyzes the page title and page text, extracts keywords, ranks keywords, and pre-populates the "tags" field in the Save Bookmark dialog using top ranked keywords.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

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

[Jon]

Similar idea here: Automatic #tagging, categorizing and searching of bookmarks using AI 

[Mutzu]

I think that would be a big leap in a browsers's functionality!

Additionally, it would be cool if you could specify the language of the created tags.
I found out that it is really helpful for searching, to have them in the same language that you usually use for thinking. 😄

It could also be an option to automatically suggest a new folder (somewhere in the tree) if there isn't one that makes sense.

I would also suggest, but this is probably another idea, to automatically sort all orphan bookmarks into the existing folders.

[Mutzu]

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

[okay_okay]

i like this idea 👍

[boy]

It's great seeing Mozilla experiment with AI. AI can be really useful and here's some applications where I think AI can be really useful.

1. Automatic bookmarks organization and tagging. This is useful because some of us are not wired to think in an organized manner constantly, we often just add a bookmark to random places with the intention of "sorting everything later". And eventually, when you have hundreds or thousands of bookmarks it's already too late to do that manually if you ever decided organize.

2. The other suggestion is simple, TTS. Mozilla might be able to make use of existing projects such as Piper TTS which is free and open source and lightweight. So Mozilla can focus on integration and interactivity within the browser and let the actual voice be generated by Piper which would be installed on the system.

Thank you for this amazing browser.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: Automatic #tagging, categorizing and searching of bookmarks using AI 

[boy]

Yeah it is, although there's still the TTS suggestion.

[delf]

i would probably not trust AI to manage my bookmarks and data. for starters, the privacy implications... Sending my bookmarks and data unencrypted to an AI somewhere is probably not good, and not even the people who build the AIs have no idea where that data might end up and have no way of removing it once it's fed to the AI (and, well, having to send your unprotected data in the first place ruins the entire privacy aspect of Firefox). And also: if the AI decides in which category a bookmark should end up, then i don't really know where it'll go and it might sometimes misjudge it and put it somewhere where it shouldn't be or lose it somewhere. Sure, it might work most of the time, but you never know.

running an AI is expensive and wouldn't turn to much profit. i feel like it should be better to prioritize making Firefox a better and more intuitive Web browser than to chase the latest trends this way.

[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?