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I often bookmark something that is interesting but that I haven't got the time to read. I'm sure lots of other people must do this too. I suggest that a browser should start with a random page from you bookmarks/favourites. So it wont be forgotten for ever. I also think it would be good if when you see
the page again you have a chance to rank it or delete it. This way the pages that you are really interested in could be made to pop up more often and you would eventually get around to reading them. This also gives you the option of only reading a small section of a very long web page without stressing, because you know that it will pop up again and that you don't have to read it all in one go and that you dont have to be bothered to remember to return to it. You could even build the browser so that it brings up the stored bookmarks for ten minutes and only ten minutes every hour to give you a risk free break from work,i.e. one that wont end up turning into half an hour of surfing.
Predictive Homepage Selector
http://www.halfbake...Homepage_20Selector
Not random at all. [phoenix, Oct 04 2004]
Like this, sort of?
/random-idea.html
[DrCurry, Oct 04 2004]
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This is probably bakeable as a Javascript, using window.external.ImportExportFavorites() to bring up the favorites in a page and the normal DOM stuff to walk through it and pick a link. You would actually point your home page at a locally stored document containing only a script that did this procedure then loaded the randomly selected page. Interesting idea. |
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Here, I wrote it for you. In IE, use File | Import and Export... to export your favorites to an HTML file. Then bring up that file in a text editor and add the following to the very bottom of the file: |
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<script language="JavaScript">
numlinks = document.links.length
link = document.links.item( numlinks * Math.random() + 1 )
window.location.replace( link )
</script>
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Then make that local file your home page. Now every time you reload your home page, it will go to a random link within. |
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thanks.
I'll try it. Not bad after 30mins of posting. Its not quite got all the functionality of the 'proffessional version' but not bad for 30min freeware. |
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Just tried it, It works your a star. Trying to bookmark it was a bit challenging as it was like trying to catch an eel. No sooner had I got it into the address bar, then it disappeared. I had to browse for it and before okaying it, copy the location in the browse dialog box, go to internet options and paste it into the homepage field. You cant just catch it by using - use current [ie set current page as the home page] |
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Yeah, that would be a problem. You could go into Tools | Internet Options... select the General tab, then just type the filename there instead. |
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Now it would be good if I can delete the bookmark this way, cause many things I had bookmarked months ago, no longer useful anymore and just cluttering my space. |
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What if it goes to one of your porn sites and your mom is in the room? |
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What porn sites, Eugene? Because _my_ favorites are innocuous. Yes, nothing here but sociology and memetics pages. AHEM. |
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Just edit the source code of your bookmarks to remove the dodgy sites then you can use it when mums about. Of course you need to keep updating the bookmark file as it will only be a snapshot of your bookmarks on the day you exported them. So you might want to re-export and add the javascript every month or too to keep it up to date. |
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I am a proponent of browsers starting up at about:blank, so I can't + this one. I shall not bone it either. |
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My browser starts at a "My Links" page held on my hard drive. |
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My solution is to create two profiles in www.stumbleupon.com and one profile in www.del.icio.us Store all your bookmarks in delicious and occassionally export all your favourites into one of the profiles in Stumbleupon.com which you use to load a random page. Constantly log into another stumbleupon id. From Stumble toolbar select load pages from other stumbler ( use your other profile created to load random pages) Just press stumble button. That's all. You are done. But it wont load pages automatically when you start your browser as required, you need to press the stumble button on your toolbar. This way your bookmarks go online and accessible to you anywhere. |
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This would be mostly useful if there was a good way to bookmark things quickly (read: one click) and easily to mark them not just as a page to remember, but specifically that I need to read this page later. |
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Also, I don't open the browser often, it just stays open all the time. So, maybe instead of a randomized home page, a simple "Give me something I need to read" action would be nice. Pull in some RSS feeds along with it. |
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Wait, no, just pull my "things to read" list into my RSS feeder and let me get to it when I want to read stuff. |
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thx for the idea [+]; im baking it in Flash right about now; with bookmarks adding/removing functions at a click of a button; no boring HTML editing. Send me an e-mail on swim_north@yahoo.ca and ill fw it to you. |
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