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= Rethinking Firefox Bookmarking =
[[Places]] brings many new capabilities to the bookmarks and history system. However, the UI for accessing and managing bookmarks has not really changed that much. In this document, we describe some potential future directions.
* Don't significantly change the UI for people that have learned to use the current system. Most people will not want to learn something new, and will be upset if their bookmarks have moved. It should be possible to slowly transition to the new features.
== Notes ==
It is common that a small part of a page contains most of the value of the page. For example, the time and price of an airline ticket, or the address of a winery that you want to visit. For this task, we introduce "notes," which are enhanced bookmark descriptions, a little-known feature of the old bookmarks system.
To add a note, the user can select text and right-click.
note_add.png
The selected text would get appended to the current note for the page, and the note pane would appear:
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This pane would appear whenever the user visits a page where they have added a note. It would also be toggle-able from the View menu.
== Viewing notes ==
One of the most important reasons for notetaking is the ability to have all the information in one place. To view notes added to pages, the user can click on "View notes" in any bookmark or tag view:
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This provides all the information that they have noted for all pages in one convenient view. For example, the use would tag their airline pages with the same tag, and would be able to call all of them up at once to compare.
''Open question:'' What happens if a note is added to a page that is not bookmarked? Perhaps we want to add it to the bookmark inbox.
