Release Notes - Improve AI Suggestions

Improvements to Suggestion Consistency

The AI suggestions and feature has not been working as well as it should. Certain sites block Linkidex’s backend from communicating with them, and / or send us junk data. This prevents Linkidex from being able to fetch useful information used to automatically populate a link’s title, description, and have AI suggest categories and tags for the given link.

There are protocols such as oEmbed and open graph which tools like Linkidex can utilize, but every site doesn’t implement these protocols. Long story short, making AI suggestions work for a handful of sites is easy. Making it work for every website on the internet is not.

Today’s update makes AI suggestions and the autofill details feature work much more consistently. I am monitoring this feature, if particular websites seem to be failing feel free to reach out to me and I’ll investigate. This feature will never work on 100% of websites, as we can’t control how other people structure their websites. I imagine people tend to bookmark valuable pages though, and valuable pages will tend to be built with a certain level of quality, including adhering to typical web development practices which includes having the data Linkidex needs for AI suggestions. So while this may not work 100% of the time, it should work for a vast majority of the URLs people bookmark. I think.

Improvements to how we display suggestions

Today’s update also improves how we display AI suggestions. I didn’t like how it was ambiguous which suggestions would result in a new category or tag being created, versus which suggestions were for an existing category or tag. With today’s update, categories and tags that you have not created will have the three stars next to them, as stars represent shiny new things. Categories and tags the AI suggests that you have already created will not have these icons. As before, clicking a suggestion will add the suggestion to your link.