User:Auk/Tag Model
With all the tagging hype going around, I thought I'd put my forty-two cents in.
In search of a good noun for a tagged page, as "tag" applies to the descriptors for tagged pages, and "tagged page" & variations are cumbersome.
Tag This Page dialog
Mockup soon.
The Tag Page dialog should present both a text and a mouse interface.
The Tag With text box should present 'tag autocompletion from the created tags
Tag suggest
When tagging a new page, Firefox should scan the page for frequently used words and attempt to match those to the user's tags.
At a loss of sufficient existing tag match, Firefox should generate/suggest tags based upon it's text scan.
En général:
- Need good word blacklist — and, the, a... (User-editable?)
The word frequency limit should have a static absolute minimum, and a dynamic upper limit depending on several factors; is the browser a fresh install,
Tag management
I am equally divided between a seperate Tag Manager window and an in-browser interface. In both cases, the following should apply.
- Page previews (more about this in the appropriate section)
- Drag-and-drop tagging
Page preview
I think an excellent way to ease recognition is with graphical previews of a page
On hierarchy
In effect here are three options:
- User-mandated manual hierarchy (like F-Spot)
- Generated pseudo-hierarchy (like the proposed Epiphany patch)
- Sheer flat-file tags
References
- Epiphany Hierarchical Bookmarks Patch
- F-Spot, a image manager with manual heirarchal tags