I rarely refer to my web browser’s history. It has a low signal to noise. It seems like the most literal implementation of the notion of “browsing history”. It has no notion of what I was looking for, why I was visiting a page, and if I found what I was looking for when I visited.

I’m reading about Unit Tests and Zope and Test Driven Development. I am going to read the wikipedia page on each of the concepts and probably some other pages elsewhere on the web. I want to be able to highlight the one or two most valuable snippets from each page and use those together as a the history entry.

When I go to my history list, I don’t really care about the list of pages I visited, I care about what I was looking for and why I went there.

I want task- and concept-centric history lists.

notes: Generalize the concept of a content consumption stream, a content history. What if it magically existed for all the books and papers I read in college. Would each page be an entry? Each paragraph? Each book or article? That wouldn’t be as useful as some kind of… distillation of the key concepts:

• acting as pointer to help me find my way back to content surrounding main article (a bookmark)
• and as a stand-alone distillation or note of the record