On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). </blockquote><div><br>That would be handy. I would prefer a standard for /how/ to cover these features that indivicual activities can implement though -- this could let many people test out their own variation on user interface, various faster or more feature-rich indexing options, &c -- without the barrier of saying 'you have to understand how to hack the Journal code to be able to work on this cool universal organizing/finding/editing-metadata problem'.<br>
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A combination of a Journal grid view and correctly tagging objects would pretty much solve the UI side; with perhaps a bundle format (maybe repurpose .xol) so that downloading one auto extracted to a number of tagged Journal entries; and the reverse perhaps being true where you select N existing Journal entries and "send to -> ..." causes them to be zipped up as a .xol and transferred as a single item.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>+1. The reverse is also very useful.<br> </div><div>> Both old and new external media support allows for<br>
> starting an .xo Activity bundle. The Activity is installed and<br>
> started. So you could extend the Get IA Books Activity to have a<br>
> thumbnail view and have it check an external media device for a local<br>
> archive format of some kind. Then just distribute a USB stick with<br>
...<br>> Both old and new external media also support for hiding files with the<br>
> leading "." (dot) character, <br><br>Also sensible.<br><br>SJ<br></div></div>