mikus wrote: > - First off, every Activity has a 'Name Field' in its top menu. > When running any Activity, the user should enter there a short > "Title" to identify the resulting Journal entry from all others. > > - Then, upon leaving that Activity, the user should "reflect" on > what was done, and "update" the corresponding Journal entry to make > it easier to find later. This is particularly desirable if the > "Title" is not meaningful enough by itself for later locating what > the user is looking for:
in a traditional system, when a user saves their work, they are pretty much forced to enter the (hopefully) useful name by which that work will be retrieved. if searching is the fundamental retrieval mechanism (which i think is fine), then my first reaction to mikus' advice is that activities and/or sugar should be more emphatic about asking for the descriptive information which be useful later. i.e., adding search tags shouldn't be an optional extra step, but a "usual" step which must be explicitly skipped by the user. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
