[Psi-devel] Our Commercial Competitor

[Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez Prados]

2005/6/27, Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com>:
> Well that is personal preference of course.  But I think what Fran and
> Mircea have discussed here before are what would work best for Psi.
> It's not as complex.  It's "just history", but with a much better
> interface than we have now.

We had a big thread about the history thingy, and the "Message
Manager" was born there, with a lot of good ideas from Mircea, Maciek
or Przemo - among others. The manager looks good to me in the way it
was defined.

When I read the link Nolan pasted here, I thought maybe that was too
much for a simple history manager. Bookmarks, calendars... everything
seems to be really fancy. But I think it's more fancy than useful.

Have you ever navigated through your history by days, remembering what
you typed the 27th of June, and then the 28th... last year? Then, the
calendar makes no sense. It takes a lot of space. And every navigation
element complicates a step more the navigation. So I would just throw
away non useful navigation elements. Have you ever needed to find the
same history element more than once? I don't think so. (And if you
*found* it once, you will do it twice, with a good search engine.)
Then, you don't need the bookmarks. Bookmarks management is heavy. Oh
come on... A graphic showing the "density" of messages per hour... No
comments.

Maybe I'm wrong and people like this history navigation tool. I do
that kind of navigation in the personal weblog I write with a friend,
but not in my history. But maybe people start taking care of their
history and starts putting bookmarks in their favourite conversation
points.

In my opinion, I would invest my time doing a pretty "export to HTML"
function, rather than adding bookmarking capability. But as I said,
all this was just my opinion.

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Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez Prados
Fachbereich Informatik,
Fachhochschule Darmstadt,
Darmstadt, Germany
E-mail: prados at gmail.com
JID: franqui at jabber.dk