Re: About Bookmarks and Categories

[Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

On 9/5/05, Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au> wrote:

> > Maybe it would work if the menus allowed to *easily* search on
> > multiple criteria at once. In a way, that's what a hierarchy does.
>
> If you're talking about the Location entry bar, then it might be
> worthwhile, though only really applicable for very large scale
> collections of bookmarks.

"Search" was clumsy choice of words, "select" or "qualify" might have
been better. :) That aside, I think flat topics seems to get out of
hand pretty early, not needing to be all that large scale. Which is
why topics as a mean of categorizing is fine, but as a means of
finding things might be painful. Not because you can't pick any
appropriate category, but because that category is full of entries.
But see below.

> If you're talking about the bookmarks menu
> itself then check out this patch which is getting closer to being
> included:
>   http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/
>

This looks really sweet. I'm gonna have to try this one out. From what
it looks like, it might just solve my gripe with flat topics (see
above) and do it elegantly while at it. Looks really impressive! =)

[...I
>       * I've just thought of an idea for multi-agent cooperation. Where
>         could I get that published?
>       * I've just thought of an idea for a constraint satisfaction
>         algorithm. Where should I check for similar ideas?
>       * I've just been modifying my website. Where can I access that
>         link quickly? (hint: Projects, because that's what I'm *doing*)
>

Good examples all, with a short enough list to browse through on each
topic. My "Projects" topic alone would probably cause scrolling *grin*
and that was kind of my whole point. Like I said, multiple paths is
good, but not if each path contains a hundred entries, thus the need
for multiple qualifiers. Which above mentioned patch seems to solve.
=)

Thanks a lot for a very informative reply.

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