I'd just like to reiterate my own personal desire for options of
navigating bookmarks.
1. Allow sorting by alpha or chronological, both ascending and
descending. CLEARLY the guys at del.icio.us recognize that alpha
sorting is important for some things as they allow tag sorting
alphabetically. I'd like to use del.icio.us to throw up links to
items/topics I discuss in my podcast and forcing the people who
come to my delicious page to click "earlier" repeatedly until they
find the link they are looking for means that unless navigation
improves, I'll probably just scrap the idea and put the links on my
blog instead.
the alpha stuff is much complicated than one might imagine; i'm
thinking about ways to actually make it go fast.
and i am still convinced it is some thing that people think would
make life better but would not actually be used much or be
particularly useful.
if you have a list of items that go with a specific podcast, perhaps
you should tag them in some way that identifies that podcast?
2. Allow jumping to a specific page in the bookmarks. Again,
"earlier" and "later" are kind of odd considering you are kind
enough to point out what page I'm on in my bookmarks. This is
simple stuff. The ability to jump to a specific page in the list of
results is standard fare and is not difficult to implement.
yes, it's on the todo list.
3. Allow searching within my own results. As I mentioned last time,
it's our data, let us at it however we choose. As web pages all
over and even operating systems are realizing you should not need
to know where something is located to find it, this is basic. I
enjoy searching for tags and finding results from all of delicious,
but I'd like to do the same and let my podcast listeners do the
same just within my own tags. Have a "search only within x's
bookmarks" where x is the name of the account whose bookmarks you
are currently looking at.
i believe we support user:username in the search; just needs a bit of
UI gloss to make that happen.
I really have this to say about the responses to navigation
improvements I've seen in this thread. You should ALWAYS make stuff
as easy to find as possible, and considering the ease of
implementation of the stuff I've listed above, saying that these
are not useful seems like me telling a customer of mine that no, I
won't allow him to search his data or change the order it's
displayed in because I personally don't use those functions. When
you create a web application for people to use, it's supposed to be
about how THEY and others want to access their data, not how you,
the programmer, thinks they should access it. Seriously, if you
don't understand this, find a new line of work because this is a
basic principle. Give the client the data they need and give it to
them in a format that makes sense, and make it easy for them to
access.
Reverse chronological ordering of bookmarks only with no ability to
jump to specific pages is an artificial limitation that has no
reason to exist other than that's how the declicious programmers
like it, everyone who uses it and wants basic modern navigational
capabilities be damned.
End of rant. I won't bring it up again unless someone responds to
this and wants to discuss it, but I really don't understand the
resistance. Nothing I've listed above is difficult and it would
give huge increases in usability. If I can use your site for my
podcast topic links, I can drive people to your site who've never
really seen a use for it before. If you make it hard for them to
find something I mention without having to guess how I tagged it,
they probably won't be back to set up their own accounts.
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