RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-06 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
John Sullivan wrote: I really don't want every page I tag that happens to be hosted on a university's server to be tagged with the name of the university even though it has nothing to do with the university. Neither do I want every geocities page or blogger page to be tagged with geocities or

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-06 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Chris Lott wrote: I'm not into autotagging either, but the function of seeing all links I have from a domain could be interesting. Where in the UI it would belong, or if it could just be a search function or maybe a greasemonkey extension... I don't know. If I have dozens or hundreds of

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-06 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Chris Lott wrote: but it seems much better handled by search (efficient) than paging through a list of links to get to the middle of the alphabet! _If_ you happen to be one of those people that intuitively uses searches. Not everyone is. Some people see a list, that's supposed to contain

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-05 Thread Scott Willsey
On Feb 4, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Chris Lott wrote: but it seems much better handled by search (efficient) than paging through a list of links to get to the middle of the alphabet! Yes... and when they give us the ability to easily search ONLY within the current list of bookmarks in an obvious

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-04 Thread John Sullivan
Larson, Timothy E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You seem to think you know better than me what I want. Maybe you don't want a feature like this, and maybe you think most people don't, either. And maybe you're right about that! But as for me, including the domain and the author names

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-03 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
ivan santiesteban wrote: This has been interesting. I like Timothy's push for more automatic tags. We already have system:filetype:, so it's not something entirely new. As microformats grow these things could work really well for specific uses. I think the only things you have to

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-03 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Vinay Augustine wrote: I'm not sure how useful metadata is. I mean, metadata that's important to you (like the webpage URL) isn't important to me at all. How does Joshua decide which pieces of metadata to include? Certain metadata are nearly universal of any resource you'd look up. Just for

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-03 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Larson, Timothy E. wrote: I mentioned the meta name=author tag. Not widely used, but it's there, at least for HTML. If a service like Delicious started to make use of it, it could drive more people to use it correctly. All the people who have been thoughtfully including such metadata for

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Joshua Schachter wrote: 1. Title extension. In my own link collection, I like to expand upon the title a bit as a memory-jogger for myself, perhaps incorporating This is why the title is editable. But then the original title is not preserved. Just because the reader thinks he can improve

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Schachter
But then the original title is not preserved. Just because the reader thinks he can improve the title does not mean the author's title for the page is not important as well. The point is so that you can get back to the original document. The titles are very frequently unhelpful on many

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for, discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Angus Fraser
To add to the the discussion on wether search is satisfactory alternative to other ways of sorting. I'm not interested in alpha sorting particularly but do think there is something exciting about being able to publish a list of links sorted by their importance/value to me rather than just

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for, discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Schachter
Yeah, this is definitely something we are thinking about. There's a bunch of odd sub-effects floating around, though. What if while looking at tag X, you you put link A below link B. Then look at tag Y, which also contains links A and B. What's the expected ordering? Perhaps I we should just

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Joshua Schachter wrote: Perhaps I we should just let people star items? It'd certainly be a simpler UI... I've always been against it, though; why bookmark a bad item? I dunno. Not good-vs-bad, but good-vs-great. Or a 1-2-3 rating, where 1 is your standard good enough to bookmark, 2 is if

RE: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-02 Thread Scott Willsey
I'm just going to jump into the fray here and offer my thoughts on the navigation issues:1. I definitely agree we need to be able to sort the list alphabetically if so desired, as well as chronologically by oldest first and latest first. Not being able to choose the sorting order is, well,

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-02 Thread ivan santiesteban
This has been interesting. I like Timothy's push for more automatic tags. We already have system:filetype:, so it's not something entirely new. As microformats grow these things could work really well for specific uses. I think the only things you have to decide are a) wether you want your

Re: [delicious-discuss] feature suggestion/request for discussion

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Schachter
1. Title extension. In my own link collection, I like to expand upon the title a bit as a memory-jogger for myself, perhaps incorporating the title into my one-liner commentary about the page. Before you suggest description, I don't use the description for this, because that's where I like