#79 Summarize Query ("Book Report")

[Danny Weltman]

Say I have a book that I've entered into Hypernomicon in various ways: I've created arguments for all the book's arguments, views for all the views described in the book, etc. Right now if I want a summary of that, I think the best thing to do is to go to the book and click the "Mentions" button, which runs a query pulling up everywhere the book shows up. Then I can click on and view all the different things brought up by that query. It would be nice if instead of having to go through all those things one by one, I could perhaps select them all and click "create report" or something, and it would spit out a PDF or HTML or whatever file with all of these things listed. I could then print this out and carry it with me when I teach the book in class, etc.

(If this feature were very fancy it could detect which works are referred to in all the various records, and then at the end include a works cited with the bibliographic details of all those works.)

I'd use this for creating book reports but if the feature were implemented, it would work for any query, and people could use it for all sorts of stuff, like creating a report on some important term or idea or position or whatever.