On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Peter Tandler wrote:
If I copy entries to my laptop it would be cool if the copied references would be synchronized automatically so that I get all (public) updates automatically (as soon as I have the network connection) -- and vice versa.
What do you think?
It would be a detail of the portable references idea. So, when you save the document, the bib records are saved along with it. When the document is transferred to another machine, if that database doesn't include relevant records, you can choose to add them.
For your example, it would mean allowing existing records to be overwritten by the embedded ones. I'm not sure *I* would want to do that myself. And what would be the user experience that would allow a user to choose whether or not to overwrite specific records?
Also, it's not like a bib record is likely to change much at all, so why is it important to synchronize the records themselves?
(And this implies the need for supporting multiple databases.)
Why? All it implies is the ability to switch connections from one database to another. It doesn't imply more-than-one active connections at a single time (which is what I dislike).
Bruce
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