Yes, and until we have the fancy ML method, one way to do it is to have something like a Google Doc where you document your search by copypasting from the source documents and linking to them.
That was my point with the original article. I'm with you that it would be fantastic to have memex that's described in 'As we may think' (only better), but until we do, I'm doing it the hard/manual way.
I was surprised to recently find out that Google Chrome in fact already has that fancy ML method for chunking history into trails.
Nothing wrong with doing this manually, but I do think that having the Memex do some of the thinking re: how the data is organise would save a lot of time.
That was my point with the original article. I'm with you that it would be fantastic to have memex that's described in 'As we may think' (only better), but until we do, I'm doing it the hard/manual way.