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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
kinda crazy how bad search is in most software. search is arguably one of the most straightforward ways that computers can augment human intelligence — yet we expect nothing more than clunky, poorly ranked, literal search, and chase after the newest niche feature trend instead
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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
you know that uneasy feeling you get when you're searching for something in a tool but you're unsure of the exact words? yeah, that shouldn’t be an issue. nor should you have to use numerous filters or learn a program's search operators just to find things
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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
what if search were taken seriously as a tool for thought and we genuinely trusted it to help us find everything that we needed? perhaps it would adapt itself to how you use it, proactively find relevant things for you, etc. tl;dr: our brains need more lil librarian friends
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
I spent some time in '19 prototyping a "personal panopticon"; the conceit was that it would record all text (and other structured data) you ever saw on your screen, plus enough metadata to reconstruct context. Then: search! Had to put it down but still think it'd be interesting…
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