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The extension "Flat Bookmark Editing" is a wonderful example for a productivity tool that caused a qualitative change when I started using it. The principle of "permanently open tools" like in Photoshop isn't new and has a good reason: it dramatically reduces the editing effort. This is a key issue for converting the "bookmarks manager" into an "information manager" that contains more than the saved bookmark (tags, annotation, etc.). | The extension "Flat Bookmark Editing" is a wonderful example for a productivity tool that caused a qualitative change when I started using it. The principle of "permanently open tools" like in Photoshop isn't new and has a good reason: it dramatically reduces the editing effort. This is a key issue for converting the "bookmarks manager" into an "information manager" that contains more than the saved bookmark (tags, annotation, etc.). | ||
(see also http:// | (see also http://pubnotes.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/bookmarks-usability/) | ||
Comment about "Editing Bookmarks": "When the user visits a page that exists within their bookmarks, the Tag button lights up and can be clicked to edit metadata." An option to put metadata editing as a permanently open tool in the sidebar could change the way we are using bookmarks because we could for the first time "add" to any website personal context that is available parallel to the website. This is actually an old idea and linked to Berners-Lee's ideas of a semantic web. This "sidebar tool" could also be useful to display other information about the website such as white or black listed, blocked cookies, etc. | Comment about "Editing Bookmarks": "When the user visits a page that exists within their bookmarks, the Tag button lights up and can be clicked to edit metadata." An option to put metadata editing as a permanently open tool in the sidebar could change the way we are using bookmarks because we could for the first time "add" to any website personal context that is available parallel to the website. This is actually an old idea and linked to Berners-Lee's ideas of a semantic web. This "sidebar tool" could also be useful to display other information about the website such as white or black listed, blocked cookies, etc. | ||
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How about adding Scrapbook functionality | How about adding Scrapbook functionality | ||
== Tags and the Bookmarks Menu == | |||
I am not quite sure how many times (if any) this idea has been suggested, but I know the perfect way on how to integrate the Tags system with the Bookmarks Menu... | |||
Below Organize Bookmarks (but above the actual bookmarks), would be a folder called "Tagged Bookmarks", and several other Tag-based folders. My menu proposal would look a bit like this | |||
Bookmark This Page<br> | |||
Subscribe to This Page<br> | |||
Bookmark All Tabs<br> | |||
Organize Bookmarks<br> | |||
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Tagged Bookmarks ><br> | |||
Recently Visited Bookmarks ><br> | |||
Recently Tagged Bookmarks ><br> | |||
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Bookmarks Toolbar Folder ><br> | |||
(your bookmarks) | |||
Tagged Bookmarks would be a new submenu containing subfolders of all the tags that exist in the database. In those folders would be lists of bookmarks tagged with that option. | |||
Another thing we could try, is maybe an extension to the address bar, there would be an extra button next to the Go button (or maybe in that submenu next to the favicon) that would allow you to change the address bar to a search bar for contextually searching through bookmarks! | |||
So, how do you like that? [[User:Viper550|Viper550]] 17:30, 24 May 2007 (PDT) | |||