journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

[NoiseEHC]

> We can do a little better than that, actually, by making it all one
> prompt.  It can have a name field, already filled out with the best
> darn attempt at a name we can manage, a tag field (and perhaps even a
> list of popular tags as well, to apply to it with a click or a
> drag/drop), and buttons for [Erase] (Or [Don't Keep]?) and [Keep].
>   
A little better solution would be if the words in the name would be 
treated as tags and if the save "dialog" would offer autocomplete for 
those tags. Tagging via the Journal could just set words to "super" tags 
so they would not be shown in the name but would be handled "harder" 
than "soft" tags in searching or in the proposed tag submenu thing. If 
the user would type in the tag via autocompletion then it should be 
treated as an explicit tag.

I am not sure if you can understand it so here is another try from the 
opposite side:

The problem with tagging is that it is painful to select something on 
the XO from a drop down menu (the list of available tags). (Note that 
developing Sugar on a Linux PC is cheating...) The whole notion of 
explicit tagging is also a nuisance and requiring tagging at save time 
is painful. So this proposal just tries to simplify the process from the 
user's perspective (and makes coding the Journal very very hard, but 
since somebody other than me will code it I do not care...). 
Autocompleting, not only tags but "soft" tags too, would result in that 
if the user is doing some project lately then the system would offer him 
the project's name since probably it would be used lately a lot. Also it 
could be used for filesystem paths as well but probably I should see 
that GNOME UI Hackfest video first.