Re: Navigating Smart Collections

This is a great use case for 'smart collections'. It would also be  
great if you could optionally see and 'filter' by the collections  
that comprise the 'Grade 8' collection: Grade 8A and Grade 8B, etc.   
http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/NavigatingBetweenRelatedItems

On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Reid Ellis wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2007, at 13:55, Reid Ellis wrote:
>> Maybe I'm just not understanding something. Why can't each feed be  
>> a collection?
>>
>> If you want to see multiple feeds, just click on them or pin them.
>>
>> One thing this immediately brings to mind is grouping collections,  
>> which allows the user to switch to viewing the group by clicking  
>> in one place. Having a filter on items to only show "unread" ones  
>> would be useful, too.
>>
>> Reid
>
> Maybe what this is leading to is a smart collection. A simple form  
> of this would be an aggregator collection, which just contains all  
> items in a given set of collections.
>
> I have a use-case where this would be very useful. I'm managing the  
> web calendar for my son Ronnie's school:
> 	http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jackminer/calendar.htm
>
> As a parent, I am only really interested in what happens to  
> Ronnie's class, and not the other grade 7 and 8 classes. I am also  
> interested in events that are not class-specific.
>
> For teachers, being able to view "all grade 8's" is very useful.
>
> So we have a collection for each class (8A, 8B, etc), and for  
> general school events.
>
> We create a smart-collection called "grade 8" which aggregates  
> "8A", "8B", etc.
>
> Then when I add an event to 8B, it would automatically be in the  
> "grade 8" collection as well.
>
> I create a "Ronnie's parent" collection, which aggregates "8B" and  
> "School Events".
>
> This same functionality is very appropriate for feeds from Twitter,  
> Jaiku, RSS, etc.
>
> ... just a thought.
>
> Reid
>
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