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The tagging interface I like the best is del.icio.us' web interface for posting (opened and pre-filled with a bookmarklet). It shows all used tags as a tag cloud and supports find-ahead suggestions while typing. This has limited the tendency of folksonomies to create multiple words for one topic. And its has reduced random spelling errors and the parallel use of plural and singular. Putting tags in an one-dimensional list would result in an extremely long list with endless scrolling. This was acctually the reason I never switched in the past to an alternative bookmark managers with keywords. I see tags as a form of annotation. This semantic annotation depends primarily on my current interest. For that reason I would like to have an interface that allows me to see and change tags parallel to reading the website. May be in a Sidebar, "Bottombar", or in a dynamic tool like the find tool that is activated by a single key. But this tool should not be limited to tagging. It should also integrate a large field for free annotations. My search tools are currently not specific for tags but include everything: URL, title, tags, and annotations (http:// | The tagging interface I like the best is del.icio.us' web interface for posting (opened and pre-filled with a bookmarklet). It shows all used tags as a tag cloud and supports find-ahead suggestions while typing. This has limited the tendency of folksonomies to create multiple words for one topic. And its has reduced random spelling errors and the parallel use of plural and singular. Putting tags in an one-dimensional list would result in an extremely long list with endless scrolling. This was acctually the reason I never switched in the past to an alternative bookmark managers with keywords. I see tags as a form of annotation. This semantic annotation depends primarily on my current interest. For that reason I would like to have an interface that allows me to see and change tags parallel to reading the website. May be in a Sidebar, "Bottombar", or in a dynamic tool like the find tool that is activated by a single key. But this tool should not be limited to tagging. It should also integrate a large field for free annotations. My search tools are currently not specific for tags but include everything: URL, title, tags, and annotations (http://pubnotes.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/firefox-hacks-search-simultaneously-in-firefox-delicious-and-archived-bookmarks/). | ||
It fails only in a few cases when the search term is a very common word or pattern so that I get to many results. A suggest button, a filter that scans the content of the website for all my tags, an automatic language tag, and pre-filling by a manually defined URL -> tags list would be great. I guess the three-panel and two-panel concept would only work for "main tags" but not for common sizes of tag lists because of the access by scrolling issue. See for example http://johnvey.com/features/deliciousdirector/. Very useful would be a simple button that bookmarks the website and adds a predefined tag(s), e.g. 2read, without any other user interaction. And for power users, it would be a great advantage if the tool would support GET-like function as Flock does for some tools, e.g. chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul?url=http://www.foobar.org&tags=cool, so that bookmarklets can be used to develop quick solutions for specific problems. | It fails only in a few cases when the search term is a very common word or pattern so that I get to many results. A suggest button, a filter that scans the content of the website for all my tags, an automatic language tag, and pre-filling by a manually defined URL -> tags list would be great. I guess the three-panel and two-panel concept would only work for "main tags" but not for common sizes of tag lists because of the access by scrolling issue. See for example http://johnvey.com/features/deliciousdirector/. Very useful would be a simple button that bookmarks the website and adds a predefined tag(s), e.g. 2read, without any other user interaction. And for power users, it would be a great advantage if the tool would support GET-like function as Flock does for some tools, e.g. chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul?url=http://www.foobar.org&tags=cool, so that bookmarklets can be used to develop quick solutions for specific problems. | ||