Mimi:
I will answer between the lines,
Yours,
Daniel Vareika
Mimi Yin wrote:
This
brings up an interesting modeling question.
Thus far, I've
been thinking of the Appbar as an array of Information types. Scrapbook
feels more like a Collection? A type of grouping of items.
Scrapbook for me
feels more like the Calendar or the Directories.
For me it is not a collection. It is more like an inbox waiting to be
cleaned, The difference is that this are things that one collects
versus the inbox that you receive.
It is not a grouping, its like a temporary storage waiting to be
classified or left there.
So different
things you might have in the Sidebar:
Manila Project
folders
Scrapbooks
For me only one on
the top (as a scrapbook)
The other would be a collection, of music, photos, urls, mixed, etc..
I believe one should help the user get organized.
This doesn´t mean that the scrapbook could not be filtered like show
only between dates or time or only the photos taken at that time etc..
FBI-style
profile on a person or organization
Could be great. But
implies organization, and thus it implies tagging and collecting, so it
is a collection/project.
The Scrapbook
could then have any kind of item in it: Music, Photos, Movie clips,
News articles, Correspondence, etc...
Yes indeed!
I think there
is a sort of first-class distinction between Media and Resource.
Resources are items you handle a lot, more often than not, they are
items you created or someone close to you created (ie. co-worker).
They're things like proposals, presentations, spreadsheets, etc...Media
is more just "publicly" available information that you keep around.
Like coffee table books or magazines.
I didn´t know the
concept that you were giving it.
At first I cannot make up my mind whether its positive or not. if it
ads a layer of complexity that the end user will end up not using.
I have had such folders in my desktop and I know they end up being semi
trash cans that I never check to look at.
They are more like those mailing lists, one subscribes that never
reads, in the end it should be better of without them.
If at first one can categorize those items and end up putting them in a
Collection/project it is much better.
It takes getting used to, but is better.
The reason for the proliferation for search desktops like spotlight,
Google Desktop, X1 etc.. it´s because we are lousy at organizing
oneself.
We should treat the illness not the symptoms!
So a
photographer might put Photos into their Resources Area and Journalist
might put their Magazine articles in their Resources, while for most
people who don't create publicly consumed things, Photos and Articles
would most likely end up in their Media pile....Unless for example,
someone decided that a Photo or Article was especially pertinent to
their work and they Stamped it as a Resource as well.
I concede, this
is a subtle concept to communicate, so it will be something that will
require several rounds of design to bring out clearly in the UI.
I wholeheartedly
agree!
Yours,
Daniel Vareika
Mimi
On Oct 3, 2005,
at 12:47 PM, Daniel Vareika wrote:
Mimi:
As I told you, your past e mail has been trigger or two more things.
The first, the concept of the ScrapBook Album.
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10/03/2005
The ScrapBook
Album could supplant the Media and the resources.
In fact the Metaphor is better at describing all the data that one
hasn´t already classified as a project or as a collection.
The type of media: URL, Photo, Sound, Movie, doesn´t matter really,
what it matters it´s the meaning of the media.
As the word is self implied, it´s a media (a way) to transmit something
(data-> information).
So to speak, I believe it is more human, more natural and self
explanatory.
Besides, the idea was yours taken and applied from a description of an
email.
Yours,
Daniel Vareika
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