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May 19, 2005

View bookmarks by date

At the end of my post on Connotea I mentioned an “Alternate View” by date.

Here is the excerpt:

“You can view all public bookmarks sorted by date…ie. using the date as a section title, like a blog
o At the moment you have to click on a date (which is noted on the end of every bookmark)…wouldn’t it be good if there was a calendar archive (like on a blog) to view entries made on any date

o I’d like to view this at the user level
(see dashLog)”

Furl only lets you sort by date (newest to oldest and vice versa).
del.icio.us is text only.
citeULike is text only
Del.irio.us is text only
- when you click on expand, each bookmark marks the date as a heading above the bookmark title (this is no different from the others really as the date has just been shifted from the end of a bookmark-as a little note-to the top of the bookmark-as a large heading.

So this is a unique aspect to Connotea…now as I mentioned above this would be more usable if there was a calendar archive to click on.

But even more useful would be to see this at the user level.

This is when the unique but simple features of dashLog shine…it simply has a date heading for all items bookmarked within that date…also see an earlier post.
(this is a common feature in many blogs, but it seems more prominent in dashLog)

The only thing missing is a date archive, and categories/tags (coming soon) with RSS feeds I hope.

When these features are added this will be a link blog that has both the characteristics of a blog and a bookmark manager…a lot of this has to do with presentation, I think most bookmark managers have these features, if only they would be presented in this fashion.

I feel Connotea or any other bookmark manager could have an alternate view by date that assimilates the presentation of dashLog…this could be viewed at the public level, the public tag level, the user level, and the user tag level.

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Thanks very much for your feedback.

But even more useful would be to see this at the user level.

There is a way of doing this already, but you have to construct the URI string yourself. Just append /date/yyyy-mm-dd to any other Connotea URI. So, for example, my bookmarks from today would be:

http://www.connotea.org/user/ben/date/2005-05-20

Comment by Ben Lund — May 20, 2005 @ 1:47 pm

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