Managing Bookmarks

A page towards an online/offline library of quotations, references and other bookmarks in DeepaMehta.

  1. Ideas for the first Use Case
  2. Model
  3. Interfaces
  4. Functionality
  5. Sources

Ideas for the first Use Case

Usability

  • Feed all Webpages in DeepaMehta into a Firefox Toolbar.
  • Allow a simple POST of a Webpage to make a Bookmar from the Firefox Address Bar or through dragging an URL onto the toolbar.

Technically

  • I think that importing the Firefox JSON-dump once into DeepaMehta might be pretty straightforward to do, in a day or so.
  • So how could Firefox get a new toolbar and how could this be live-feed by a DeepaMehta service ?

Model

A Bookmark is most probably an Item (Page) of a parent Item (Website) or (Page of Book) or (Article of Journal).

This should highly interface with a) the TopicType "Note" and b) the TopicType "Keyword/Tag" both non-existent yet, cause then: a) could be a place to save Quotes from a current selection in the Client providing Reading-Functionality and b) enables to match existing "Tag"-based organized Bookmark Libraries into DeepaMehta.

Interfaces

Synchronisation with different bookmark services ?

When thinking about grouping tags, some kind of special "Meta-Tag" could probably map nicely onto "Dropdown-Menus" in that firefox toolbar mentioned above. I find this interesting cause this would apply to some services I know of.. e.g. once dived into the delicious API and they also use this type called "Metatag" to allow re-grouping of simple tags and therewith in the end reorganization of bookmarks.


Firefox Plugin for the Address Bar ?

Isn`t it in general wished to sit on top of a bookmarking service and enriching it through just providing easy to use managing features ? Both to a) deliver a tool which is not yet available and solves a valid use-case and b) to get involved with another community ?

How could I share my library with friends ?

Functionality

Simple Functionality

"Add Webpage to DeepaMehta"

Envisioned Functionality

"Create Bookmark and Note from Selection (currently selected Text)"

"Create Bookmark and save it for offline usage"


Sources

http://www.zotero.org http://www.delicious.com .. or similar sites which may be listed here if they provide a special functionality except synchronisation with your browsers