FLOSSUsabilitySprint1107/brainstorm/AnnotationCaching

Why have online sticky notes all failed in the past?

• People want a local copy of their notes
• The notes need to track the content, if a news story isn't on the front page anymore, the notes need to move to where the story is.
• Lack of message threading
• Either too few people for communication, or way too many
• Show your friends notes first

Hyperscope

• Lets you reference individual paragraphs, sentences, words, instead of only pages.
• One of the things that Doug Engelbart wishes that he would have done with hypertext is that we didn't have this level of granularity with referencing content. (Clarification: I think he did have that level of granularity in his link system, and wishes it were better implemented in the Web approach to hypertext. See (1) and (2))

Saving Pages

• Saving pages to your hard drive creates a folder of implementation level content
• Printing to PDF is currently the only way to reliably cache information
• Everyone needs to save a plane ticket or receipt pretty regularly, the best way is if the browser could cache the content