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I've turned search engine suggestions off because they often get me side-tracked, or even get me to completely forget what I actually wanted. If it is something I have visited once already, simply getting that from my history skips the search engine, making the process slightly faster. I realize that my attention problem might not actually be solved by this,

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like as your history grows it gets harder to sort through. I dont want to suggest bookmarks because I feel like I always do, but....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I rarely actually press Ctrl+Shift+H to go through the chronological history, and I do actually use bookmarks, (you know favelets? I have 2 that are actually useful). It technically also gets harder to search for the thing I want in my History as It gets bigger, but its still feels like less typing than on a search engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never delete my browsing history, but then, my home drive is encrypted and my screen lock is pretty short - and I usually trigger it by throwing my mouse to the top-left corner which immediately activates the screen lock. If someone is skilled and dedicated enough to get past all of that, I'm probably compromised in a half dozen other ways anyway.

I have been contemplating having every site I visit automatically indexed by buku, and using that as my primary search engine, with a fall-back to Ecosia. Like you, my search history is a better source of 60/70% of my search needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

have not thought about this security aspect yet, I seldom do actually take the laptop to a public place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That is a cool idea you know, all you'd need is a tool to preview sites in a half size page with the list on the other half of the page and then you just tap the selected sites you want with a multi select option that let's you highlight them in bulk so you can export them into a bookmark collection, then set up a freshly installed web browser with only those specific bookmarks, cooler still then would be a way to pin those bookmarks a single page or multiple pages with a thumbnail represent to represent each bookmarked page in your browser window and you then just choose from them like a UI (User Interface):with tiled thumbnails for the sites to choose from amd or web linked content and servers.