On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). That would be handy. I would prefer a standard for /how/ to cover these features that indivicual activities can implement though -- this could let many people test out their own variation on user interface, various faster or more feature-rich indexing options, &c -- without the barrier of saying 'you have to understand how to hack the Journal code to be able to work on this cool universal organizing/finding/editing-metadata problem'. > > A combination of a Journal grid view and correctly tagging objects would > pretty much solve the UI side; with perhaps a bundle format (maybe repurpose > .xol) so that downloading one auto extracted to a number of tagged Journal > entries; and the reverse perhaps being true where you select N existing > Journal entries and "send to -> ..." causes them to be zipped up as a .xol > and transferred as a single item. > +1. The reverse is also very useful. > Both old and new external media support allows for > starting an .xo Activity bundle. The Activity is installed and > started. So you could extend the Get IA Books Activity to have a > thumbnail view and have it check an external media device for a local > archive format of some kind. Then just distribute a USB stick with ... > Both old and new external media also support for hiding files with the > leading "." (dot) character, Also sensible. SJ
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