I think it used to be worse, with lots of glitches, but I'm glad those now seem to be gone. I'm still annoyed by the multi-step process to highlight something, however. Select something -> Click "annotate", sidebar opens -> Find the annotation you just created -> Save it without typing in any text (remember to save it, because there's no auto-saving for some reason!).
It should have been done with "Click 'highlight'". Since clicking the highlight still expands it in the side bar no funcionality would be lost by modifying the annotation feature to directly just save a highlight (If you still don't know want I would like to see, have a look at Medium's implementation).
Search:
Thanks. After testing it out again half-heartedly, it seems to find things. However it's just frustrating when you want to find back to an obscure site you have been on weeks ago, Firefox history is comically useless and you think "Oh, nice thing I have Memex installed" and then it doesn't find it, even though I remember that being the promise.
Click jacking:
When I want to open a context menu on some text using my finger I have to long press on it, but the degraded accuracy can lead to the click landing on the Memex menu (admittedly this seems hard to fix). Trying to reach far out page elements can lead to the side bar obtruding it. Both of these cases are very annoying.
I don't generally oppose the popup: It would pretty convenient for quick highlighting if highlighting was actually quick. But then again highlighting is not very quick and the "share highlight" feature, (that is very cool) is not only of much rarer use, but also extremely confusingly implemented. Why do you need to be able to share a highlight before it has been created? Why is it not an option for an actually created highlight? Why does it not show me the link, but try to copy it to my clipboard, which doesn't even work on my machine (Manjaro/KDE/X11/Firefox)?
I like that there is a close-button on the popup, but I do find it way too obtrusive. It's not a feature a normal user (or at least I) will want often. That it's shown at the same priority of the other items confuses me hard, same with the options in the side bar. I think I will disable it, since the icon does all the things I need.
Why are there collections AND tags? Don't they do the exact same thing?
Why is there no option for a denser page listing so I can see more than 6 pages, (which would be good while trying to find something, and why else would one open it)? Why can I only have it sorted chronologically, not by number of visits? Can I even see that anywhere? How about length of visit (do you record such things?)? Minor UI addition (hey. seems like the place for that): The opening of the pop-up looks pretty jarring. A more fluid animation would be nice :-)
These are mostly complaints, but I'm glad you're working on this project.
I'm also really happy that it seems to be continually improving. I wish you lots of success going forward!
> These are mostly complaints, but I'm glad you're working on this project.
Wow. Thanks so so so much for taking the time to write this all out. This has been super useful.
I added all your feedbacks to our UX/UI/bug prioritisation board. Some of the things we had already on the radar (like improving the way annotating works) and will be improved very soon.
I think it used to be worse, with lots of glitches, but I'm glad those now seem to be gone. I'm still annoyed by the multi-step process to highlight something, however. Select something -> Click "annotate", sidebar opens -> Find the annotation you just created -> Save it without typing in any text (remember to save it, because there's no auto-saving for some reason!). It should have been done with "Click 'highlight'". Since clicking the highlight still expands it in the side bar no funcionality would be lost by modifying the annotation feature to directly just save a highlight (If you still don't know want I would like to see, have a look at Medium's implementation).
Search:
Thanks. After testing it out again half-heartedly, it seems to find things. However it's just frustrating when you want to find back to an obscure site you have been on weeks ago, Firefox history is comically useless and you think "Oh, nice thing I have Memex installed" and then it doesn't find it, even though I remember that being the promise.
Click jacking:
When I want to open a context menu on some text using my finger I have to long press on it, but the degraded accuracy can lead to the click landing on the Memex menu (admittedly this seems hard to fix). Trying to reach far out page elements can lead to the side bar obtruding it. Both of these cases are very annoying.
I don't generally oppose the popup: It would pretty convenient for quick highlighting if highlighting was actually quick. But then again highlighting is not very quick and the "share highlight" feature, (that is very cool) is not only of much rarer use, but also extremely confusingly implemented. Why do you need to be able to share a highlight before it has been created? Why is it not an option for an actually created highlight? Why does it not show me the link, but try to copy it to my clipboard, which doesn't even work on my machine (Manjaro/KDE/X11/Firefox)?
I like that there is a close-button on the popup, but I do find it way too obtrusive. It's not a feature a normal user (or at least I) will want often. That it's shown at the same priority of the other items confuses me hard, same with the options in the side bar. I think I will disable it, since the icon does all the things I need.
Why are there collections AND tags? Don't they do the exact same thing?
Why is there no option for a denser page listing so I can see more than 6 pages, (which would be good while trying to find something, and why else would one open it)? Why can I only have it sorted chronologically, not by number of visits? Can I even see that anywhere? How about length of visit (do you record such things?)? Minor UI addition (hey. seems like the place for that): The opening of the pop-up looks pretty jarring. A more fluid animation would be nice :-)
These are mostly complaints, but I'm glad you're working on this project.
I'm also really happy that it seems to be continually improving. I wish you lots of success going forward!