Features

Sort & Filter

The tree is excellent for preserving context. It helps you remember how you got somewhere, revisit pages later, and retrace your thread of thought. But eventually, every successful workspace runs into a different problem: not only re-finding pages, but making sense of them.

Imagine planning a trip, comparing products, researching a topic, or working through a large decision. At some point you stop thinking about individual pages and start thinking about collections of pages. You are no longer asking "Where is that page?" You are asking "Which of these pages is the best option?" or "Which pages should I look at next?"

This is where sort and filter become useful.

Pages Become Data

Byblos pages are more than URLs. They can contain ratings, keywords, notes, reactions, measurements, dates, discussions, and contributions from other people. As that information accumulates, pages start behaving less like bookmarks and more like records. The annotations you attach to pages become data that can be organized and queried later.

Making Decisions

Suppose you are comparing dozens of Airbnb listings. Finding the listings is not the difficult part. The difficult part is deciding between them.

You might want to see only listings with a pool. You might want to sort them by cost. You might want to see only the listings that your spouse commented on. You might want to see the pages you rated highly but never followed up on. These are not navigation problems. They are decision-making problems.

The same thing happens in research. You may collect articles, papers, blog posts, videos, and source material over several weeks. Eventually the challenge is no longer gathering information. The challenge is understanding what you already gathered. Sort and filter help turn a large collection of pages into something manageable.

Querying pages by authorship, time, and/or annotation type

In Byblos, queries can involve people as well as pages. You can ask questions like:

Show me all pages I hearted with the keyword Toyota, sorted by price.

Or:

Show me all pages my wife wrote a note on in the last three days.

Those questions are possible to ask because annotations, reactions, discussions, and measurements are all attached directly to pages and authorship. Your browsing session becomes a queryable database.

Selection Rail

Sorting and filtering results are shown in the selection rail. The selection rail is a thin window at the top of your screen. It displays pages after your sort and filter rules have been applied. The tree helps you understand context and navigation. The selection rail helps you compare, organize, and make decisions across hundreds or thousands of pages at a glance.

The Big Idea

Most software stops at helping you save information. Byblos helps you use it later.

The tree preserves context. Annotations preserve meaning. Sort and filter help you turn a collection of pages into something you can analyze, compare, and make decisions from.