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Our goal is to create a bookmarks system that doesn't require the user to think about how he needs to organize his bookmarks. We want a straigt forward solution where the user only needs one klick to bookmark a page and everything else will be done by the browser. Trying to find a certain page the user will be presented with a "tag-cloud" like overview of his bookmarks. He will also be able to specify the output of the cloud via text-based search input.
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Was stoert dich beim heutigen Bookmarks-Konzept? bookmarken ist zu aufwändig erst noch sortieren und speichern - eigentlich will man ja nur ein tab weniger haben.
Was stoert dich beim heutigen Bookmarks-Konzept? Einmal alles. bookmarks sind als statische ordner gespeichert nicht als datenbank einträge die von ordnern losgelöst sind. das bookmark sollte autonom behandelt werden und eher nacht tags oder meta angaben sortiert werden.
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Overall, you've done good research and have come to meaningful conclusions at the beginning. It's a shame you didn't follow through with more detailed designs and a complete description of your project.
Your understanding of the problem and the principles behind your design are good. Given the cognitive burden bookmarks currently place on users, it makes a lot of sense to push this complexity to the browser instead and give users as little work to do as possible. However, generally there isn't enough detail here, particularly around information architecture. How will the browser generate the tags? Are there certain words it would have to eliminate?
Your sketches look reasonable although again it would be useful to have more detail around the interactions. How does the search work? Is there a type-ahead to help guide people toward tags the system holds (since they didn't choose the tags themselves). What happens for international users who spell words differently (eg UK1. Universitätskommunikation – a service of the university taking care of public relations 2. United Kingdom "colour" vs US "color")? Also, think of unintended behaviour. Is it likely that users would look for ways to get around the fact they can't add their own tags?
You've really nailed half of the problem behind bookmarking: organizing the information. The other half is that bookmarks go out of date - although that is beside the point with respect to this project. You've also understood that even with the best tool, compliance is an issue - most people are too lazy to fill in the metadata needed to organize and re-find the information they've saved.
Cennydd pegged some of the major problems with tagging. In fact, over the past couple of years, most experts agree that tagging just doesn't work very well in a multi-contributor environment. On a personal blog, where the writer always uses the same words and spell the same way, tagging can be moderately successful. But elsewhere it is often problematical. See Gene Smith's book on tagging for a very good review of the possibilities and problems.
The details of your proposal are confusing at best. I can see where you're going from the sketches, but not the details. As Mies van der Rohe said, "God is in the details". I need to get a little religion here :)
This questionnaire is still not fully populated, which is a shame. Perhaps I would have had fewer questions if it had been completed as we mentors had intended...