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Lastly, we should consider modifying the sidebar code so that it displays on top of the content pane instead of beside and force the content pane to resize. People usually only need to see the sidebar for a short period of time and resizing the content pane is very disorienting for the user.
Lastly, we should consider modifying the sidebar code so that it displays on top of the content pane instead of beside and force the content pane to resize. People usually only need to see the sidebar for a short period of time and resizing the content pane is very disorienting for the user.
== Hierarchical tags ==
I think we should have not only "flat", keyword-like tags (like [http://gmail.google.com gmail] tags, or [http://del.icio.us/ del.icio.us] tags), but also hierarchical tags, like categories used in webpage directories, like [http://www.google.com/dirhp Google Directory] or [http://dmoz.org/ dmoz.org]. Sometimes multiple tags (and selecting by multiple tags) are preferable to hierarchical structure, but sometimes hierarchical structure (hierarchical tags) works better. And hierarchical structure is easier I think for browsing.
Better yet, take a look at http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html ("Future Vision" (of ReiserFS file system) by Hans Reiser, from The Naming System Venture), which is about finding information, combining flat tags, key/value pairs (or attributes) and hierarchical categories. del.icio.us has beginnings of something like that, with the only possibility is to combine multiple tags into a tag intersection, and to select tags either from anyone, or from specified user.
: Jakub Narebski, [[User:Jnareb|Jnareb]] 02:06, 10 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Latest revision as of 17:25, 21 March 2013

Label (aka. metadata) based bookmarks orgranization is definitely the way to go. We should dump the folder based orgranization scheme completely and replace it with labels (aka. metadata), since most websites fit into many categories.

If we do decide to to use labels, we should separate it from search keywords. Also, autocomplete should be provided for label entry in the bookmark property dialogue.

Lastly, we should consider modifying the sidebar code so that it displays on top of the content pane instead of beside and force the content pane to resize. People usually only need to see the sidebar for a short period of time and resizing the content pane is very disorienting for the user.

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