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== Fx3 Bookmarks/History Meeting Notes ==

1/11/07
Talking about bookmarks/history features in Fx3, contrasting the themes from the [[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places/2006SummitNotes Places meeting at the Fx Summit]] against the [[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements Fx3 Requirements]].

This is mostly as talked about in the meeting, with some organization done by me for readability.

== theme #1 - making search smarter ==

* problem: hard to find bookmarks if you have a lot
* unify the output of the different locations: urlbar/searchbar/etc to include bookmarks?
* motivation: can't find what you're looking for
* NFR - improve discoverability of where you've been before
* FR - list bookmarks in location bar dropdown
* FR - "see more" under the last 5 hist entries
* FR - sort location bar dropdown by MRU (if user uses bms, then put those first, if stars, else history)
* FR - sort location bardropdown by MRVisited (and what other metadata?)
* location bar vs search: your stuff vs web stuff
* if it's clear that user is not entering a url, switch to search bar behavior
* flock search suggest, spotlight - search bar dropdown shows everything we have
* NFR: "search across local web experience"
* FR: unify the result set (querying for data)
* FR: UI about when/where you want that search
* FR: UI about parsing/viewing the results
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* FR: add favicons to locbar dropdown, elsewhere?
* FR: better search of history in location bar (search page title and fti not just url)
* FR: type-ahead search based on multiple criteria
* NFR: people type a bunch of shit into locbar, we can make it more useful
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* do we need for N/FRs for management of metadata?
* NFR: gotta search for things based on when you saw it, what it's called, what you were searching for, where it came from, whether you found it interesting
* use aggregate information to increase usefulness of search
* managing by annotation?
* don't need management organizer if the search results UI allows delete/edit
* NFR: "shortcuts" vs bookmarks - is this same as "auto-bookmarking"
* what's the motivation for deleting? (these are possibly NFRs)
** false positives (that search result sucks, never show it to me again) -  UI-entanglement: "never remember passwords", etc
** clean up history
** removing clutter (un-boomark, un-star)

== theme #2 - starring/tagging ==

* NFR - mark something of interest
* NFR - unmark it
* NFR - view/search pages of interest
* FRs for add/edit/delete interestingness
* FR: annotate a page, to say that it's interesting

possible UIs for marking things as interesting:
* star
* beltz: add a sticky note (possibly w/ tags/annos as added metadata)
* delicious: explicit management

== theme #4 - places as platform ==
* eat places-platform dogfood and implement starring/tagging as extension
* need to enumerate the platform requirements for places, add to docs
* should hook up w/ shaver+team to talk about places platform requirements for extension developers