Spam-filtered History

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

How do you manage your browser's history, that is, keep it tidy, yet save information long enough so as to be useful still? On today's browsers, you can set an expiration time, like "keep history entries for 21 days" or such like.

That's not right for me. One the one hand, most URLs I visit may be thrown out right away. Then, there are others that I'd like to keep forever; talk about automagic bookmarking.

My idea is to use the equivalent of a spam cleaner on the history. For example, throw out everything that you've visited just so many times during a certain period of time; or delete URLs that are unavailable; remove entire sites where you've visited fewer than a given number of pages; and so on. I guess that would make a nice AddIn for WebEdit.NET, too.

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