Re: [Fofredux-devel] Re: other issues / comments

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> I think a tag is like a "categorization" of feeds and items. This has
> been the 'traditional' meaning and the one that most users would come
> in understanding from Flickr, del.icio.us, etc.
>
> A "category" would mean a genre and is more general.
>
> - tags are specific classifications (php, toread, code, political,
> republican, article)
> - categories are broad classificiations (programming, politics, local)
>
> One of the discussion lines awhile ago was to not do categories, and
> just do tags, since tags should be able to encapsulate anything a
> category is. However, perhaps they are "too specific", and a hierachy
> in an OPML file would be difficult, since feeds have multiple tags.
> Now an OPML file can contain tag markups of feeds and items, but this
> wouldn't be an outline form, just more metadata within the feed tags.
>
> Categories are pretty much done, just some things to clean up in the
> code (initial install when no categories exist or imported feeds w/o a
> category - I guess just add an initial "None" category) But do you
> think tags vs. categories as two organization schemes will confuse
> users?

The differences between categories and tags are blurry in places.  As you
can see with all my emails today, I'm still trying to iron out what a tag
should be.  I guess it's all about how the user wants to use them.  I'll
get alot of value out of having only tags as long as they we can aggregat=
e
them together.(tags that contain other tags) Or, maybe that's where we
start calling them "categories".


> You brought up a good point about "Tagging" searches. I definitely
> think saved searches ("smart folders") are great. These searches would
> be available for reading or for providing an aggregated feed. Tagging
> searches is interesting, can you provide an example of how it would
> work?

The tagged search would be stored as a list of search criteria.  Which
then would be compiled into a WHERE clause for an SQL query.

The criteria would be defined like:

feed =3D 2
tag =3D unread
title like '%something%'

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Kevin