#1810 NORM Untriag: The journal could provide an Automatic grouping inside topics of objects based on tags

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#1810: The journal could provide an Automatic grouping inside topics of objects
based on tags
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 Reporter:  HoboPrimate                      |       Owner:  krstic   
     Type:  enhancement                      |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  infrastructure                   |     Version:           
 Keywords:  journal tag organization browse  |    Verified:  0        
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 The Journal will allow pretty advanced Searching, Sorting and Filtering
 using tags and meta-data information, for kids to find/manipulate their
 documents. But there are times and use case when solely using this method
 isn't enough:

 - A kid has amassed a large number of objects, after using the XO for some
 time. It would become usefull if he could browse his colection.
 - A kid forgets all about a drawing he made weeks before. If he stumble
 upon it through browsing the collection, he would want to keep it, by
 "staring" it to make it permanent. But since he never thinks of finding
 it, acidently sumbling upon it may not occur, and it is eventually moved
 to the school server, and after a while deleted.
    - Variations of this case, is if a Kid doesn't tag an object, or tagged
 it with too few terms, or it tagged it with different terms than the ones
 he's using to search it.

 I've read that the School Library while following the Journals method of
 searching, will also contain a Topics view.

 What I'm suggesting is a more advanced version of a Topics view to be
 available in the Journal. One that automatically organizes the kid's many
 objects based based on tags.

 Not sure if metadata should be used as well. It would be very powerfull if
 such a view only used the ineherent subjectivit and labeling power of tags
 (can't find the words to describe my reasoning better).

 This is already done in Epiphany
 (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/), Gnome's web browser, which only
 lets the user to give a Title, Description and Tags to its bookmarks, much
 like the Journal, while providing a admitedly less powerfull search
 system.
 It auto-populates a dynamical bookmarks menu, which organizes the
 bookmarks into topics and subtopics, based on their tags.
 I remember it being very sophisticated, with such things like: inside a
 topic, those bookmarks which shared between them some tag(s), would be
 separated from the others with an horizontal line.

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