Places:Fx3PRDMeetingNotes

Fx3 Bookmarks/History Meeting Notes

1/11/07 Talking about bookmarks/history features in Fx3, contrasting the themes from the [Places meeting at the Fx Summit] against the [Fx3 Requirements].

This is mostly as talked about in the meeting, with some organization done by me for readability.

theme #1 - making search smarter

• problem: hard to find bookmarks if you have a lot
• unify the output of the different locations: urlbar/searchbar/etc to include bookmarks?
• motivation: can't find what you're looking for
• NFR - improve discoverability of where you've been before
• FR - list bookmarks in location bar dropdown
• FR - "see more" under the last 5 hist entries
• FR - sort location bar dropdown by MRU (if user uses bms, then put those first, if stars, else history)
• FR - sort location bardropdown by MRVisited (and what other metadata?)
• location bar vs search: your stuff vs web stuff
• if it's clear that user is not entering a url, switch to search bar behavior
• flock search suggest, spotlight - search bar dropdown shows everything we have
• NFR: "search across local web experience"
• FR: unify the result set (querying for data)
• FR: UI about when/where you want that search
• FR: UI about parsing/viewing the results

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• FR: add favicons to locbar dropdown, elsewhere?
• FR: better search of history in location bar (search page title and fti not just url)
• FR: type-ahead search based on multiple criteria
• NFR: people type a bunch of shit into locbar, we can make it more useful

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• do we need for N/FRs for management of metadata?
• NFR: gotta search for things based on when you saw it, what it's called, what you were searching for, where it came from, whether you found it interesting
• use aggregate information to increase usefulness of search
• managing by annotation?
• don't need management organizer if the search results UI allows delete/edit
• NFR: "shortcuts" vs bookmarks - is this same as "auto-bookmarking"
• what's the motivation for deleting? (these are possibly NFRs)
  • false positives (that search result sucks, never show it to me again) - UI-entanglement: "never remember passwords", etc
  • clean up history
  • removing clutter (un-boomark, un-star)

theme #2 - starring/tagging

• NFR - mark something of interest
• NFR - unmark it
• NFR - view/search pages of interest
• FRs for add/edit/delete interestingness
• FR: annotate a page, to say that it's interesting

possible UIs for marking things as interesting:

• star
• beltz: add a sticky note (possibly w/ tags/annos as added metadata)
• delicious: explicit management

theme #4 - places as platform

• eat places-platform dogfood and implement starring/tagging as extension
• need to enumerate the platform requirements for places, add to docs
• should hook up w/ shaver+team to talk about places platform requirements for extension developers