>
> Javilk wrote (among other things):
> > You know what I miss on the web? The ability to make marginal notes
> > and highlight passages that _I_ find of interest. That, and dog-ear
> > specific pages so I can find this or that line of text again.
> > (That's one thing we did right on my browser -- saving the cursor and
> > screen position. We did a lot of things wrong, too!)
(Like being there eight years too early, and not knowing how to
market worth beans!)
> If you make the margin notes and highlight passages, where would you like to
> store your notes? Do you think a site that offered the ability to annotate
My own browser's disk space, of course. The purpose was research and
learning.
> pages and store your notes in a private file would be offering a useful
> utility? It depends on the application and the type of site, of course, but
> I'm wondering what you think would be a useful inplementation of margin
> notes on a web site. Some examples, please?
Oh, all my books are marked up, have post-it notes in them for thumb
tabs, etc.
> I've been thinking about this particular idea on and off for a while and am
> wondering what you're thinking about it. If you're not really thinking about
> it, then what can you imagine would be useful for you?
What we did with the TabTalk browser product, was have a "hierarchical
stack". Implementation was simple -- for every push, you inserted a new
line (rather than over-writing the old one,) and also indented the URL
over one character. For every pop, you merely decremented the pointer and
indentation counter. This gave you a saveable page that was a hierchy, an
outline of where you had been. (We dropped the end of this file off at
about 100 -- 200 lines. Amd I was amazed at how quickly things rolled off
the end when you were doing local brosing on program sources!)
After traversing enough pages, you took and saved your outline,
often with additional notes, and used it as an access structure, and a
kind of memory of the structure of the information you were using. that
was actually far better than our allowing anyone to annotate and make
local copies of files.
I can't do that with this browser! Nothing is "mine" with this
browser. Everything is a library book, nothing is in my own library. And
even if I save a bunch of stuff for personal use, I still have all the
dangling references and such so I have to be on-line all the time. (That
may be a good thing! We do get a lot of hits from saved pages, where the
graphic gets loaded from a local or cached file, and soon enough later,
the guy comes visiting a string of pages on our site.
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