This is a great use case for 'smart collections'. It would also be
great if you could optionally see and 'filter' by the collections
that comprise the 'Grade 8' collection: Grade 8A and Grade 8B, etc.
http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/NavigatingBetweenRelatedItems
On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Reid Ellis wrote:
On Oct 23, 2007, at 13:55, Reid Ellis wrote:
Maybe I'm just not understanding something. Why can't each feed be
a collection?
If you want to see multiple feeds, just click on them or pin them.
One thing this immediately brings to mind is grouping collections,
which allows the user to switch to viewing the group by clicking
in one place. Having a filter on items to only show "unread" ones
would be useful, too.
Reid
Maybe what this is leading to is a smart collection. A simple form
of this would be an aggregator collection, which just contains all
items in a given set of collections.
I have a use-case where this would be very useful. I'm managing the
web calendar for my son Ronnie's school:
http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jackminer/calendar.htm
As a parent, I am only really interested in what happens to
Ronnie's class, and not the other grade 7 and 8 classes. I am also
interested in events that are not class-specific.
For teachers, being able to view "all grade 8's" is very useful.
So we have a collection for each class (8A, 8B, etc), and for
general school events.
We create a smart-collection called "grade 8" which aggregates
"8A", "8B", etc.
Then when I add an event to 8B, it would automatically be in the
"grade 8" collection as well.
I create a "Ronnie's parent" collection, which aggregates "8B" and
"School Events".
This same functionality is very appropriate for feeds from Twitter,
Jaiku, RSS, etc.
... just a thought.
Reid
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