The next version of FireBible will expose your reading history, see
http://thegoan.com/dump/fb-history.png for a quick preview.
As FireBible is URI based, all the information required is already being
stored by Firefox in your regular browsing history, all I have added now
are a few queries which expose only sword related history in a manner
which hopes to be useful.
For anyone interested, a simple bookmark with the location set to
"place:terms=bible://&OR&terms=sword://&sort=8&maxResults=20" will give
you the list you see in the screenshot. This is Firefox 3+ only, I will
be dropping support for Firefox 2 with this release as there is too much
work to maintain backward compatibility and it has a very few users (5%
on my website).
Any comments on the history structure or suggestions on what lists might
be of better use are most welcome.
Now for my question:
Consider the "Last 40" list. This is a list of the last 40 sword
documents you have visited. Now, if I include dictionary or glossary
lookups in this list, I have a feeling it will soon take over the entire
list, pushing out other content like a Bible / General books; on the
assumption that you may study around 10 chapters a day, but you could
easily look up at least 50 words in a dictionary on that same day. Nist
other lists like "Today" and "Yesterday" are not limited to a fixed
number of results and adding dictionary lookups to such lists will make
them large and more difficult to navigate through.
Options I have thought of so far:
a) Make this a preference; allow the user to choose whether he wants
Dictionary entries in the History or not.
b) Add a new History list with the last 40 dictionary lookups. Remove
dictionary entries from all other lists.
c) Add a new History list with the last 40 dictionary lookups. Do *not*
remove dictionary entries from unlimited lists like "Today", "Yesterday"
, "Two days ago", etc.
I'm not really happy with any of these solutions. Anyone have
suggestions/alt ideas/comments? Am I wasting time on a problem nobody
really cares about - so what if the lists are full of dictionary
entries? Or are dictionary lookups not important enough to add to
history at all?
In Him,
Brian.
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