[IAEP] Library Activity

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> All,
>
> The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are  
> looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content  
> just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
>
> As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than  
> the tree view you seem to be proposing.  What I would like is a tabular  
> format where you can sort ascending or descending on any column, and  
> filter on any column.  Both Calibre and iTunes have a view like this and  
> for me it works.  I would have columns for Title, Author, Subject, and  
> Type, where Author and Subject are optional.
>
> A tree structure is good for hiding stuff you don't want to look at.  If  
> you want to browse through everything (expand the entire tree) it wastes  
> vertical space.

Well, in my mind the best solution is let user choose the right way :)

So Library will have several tags views
* cloud of tags
* tree of tags
* plane list of objects i.e. w/o any tags

-- 
Aleksey