It so happens that I just yesterday realized that you can put anyone’s posts into a Sequence, and that further you can leave them in Draft form forever.
I am going to use this trick for posts I want to refer back to frequently, as a kind of bookmark feature within the site.
Yeah, agree with that. We have some plans for making this happen, though we hadn’t considered doing the same for comments. I will think more about that.
The basic idea was basically to improve the sequence UI and make it much easier for people to create their own private sequences and add posts to it from the triple-dot menu on posts. We could likely do the same for comments, though capturing context there is a bit harder.
Sequences are all well and good, but that’s much, much too high-overhead for what I’m talking about. Just put a little star icon on every post/comment; when you click it, it lights up; and then on your user page (or something) you can view a list of all your “starred” comments and posts. That’s it!
(Also do the sequences thing, why not. Do any number of other things, sure, but definitely do this very simple and easy and intuitive and broadly useful thing!)
Edit: Then maybe the sequence creation UI could make use of this, like maybe there’s a little “your starred posts” list there and you can easily pick from those, to add to your sequence. And maybe the “insert link into post/comment” button in the editor UI could offer you a list of your starred posts/comments (most recent? all?), to insert those links. Sky’s the limit for utility, here…
Yeah, the suggestion in the edit is basically what I was thinking about. Basically that every user starts with a “favorites” sequence that you can add things to from the triple-dot.
A mechanism for comments in particular would be valuable—I feel like this is where the best criticism lies, and it is very rarely captured in a larger post.
Also it seems difficult to trace the genesis of an idea; comments are a common inflection point.
Yeah, the team has discussed bookmarks a bunch and I expect us to implement it sooner or later. And oddly enough, when we thought through the features we’d want out of bookmarks, they did end up looking very sequence-like, to the point that we considered retrofitting “sequence” into a more general version of itself.
(i.e. you could easily want multiple reading lists, arranged by topic or how-much-effort it seemed to read)
It so happens that I just yesterday realized that you can put anyone’s posts into a Sequence, and that further you can leave them in Draft form forever.
I am going to use this trick for posts I want to refer back to frequently, as a kind of bookmark feature within the site.
Perhaps this is a signal that it would be good to implement an actual bookmarks or “favorites” or “starred posts/comments” feature!
Yeah, agree with that. We have some plans for making this happen, though we hadn’t considered doing the same for comments. I will think more about that.
The basic idea was basically to improve the sequence UI and make it much easier for people to create their own private sequences and add posts to it from the triple-dot menu on posts. We could likely do the same for comments, though capturing context there is a bit harder.
Sequences are all well and good, but that’s much, much too high-overhead for what I’m talking about. Just put a little star icon on every post/comment; when you click it, it lights up; and then on your user page (or something) you can view a list of all your “starred” comments and posts. That’s it!
(Also do the sequences thing, why not. Do any number of other things, sure, but definitely do this very simple and easy and intuitive and broadly useful thing!)
Edit: Then maybe the sequence creation UI could make use of this, like maybe there’s a little “your starred posts” list there and you can easily pick from those, to add to your sequence. And maybe the “insert link into post/comment” button in the editor UI could offer you a list of your starred posts/comments (most recent? all?), to insert those links. Sky’s the limit for utility, here…
Yeah, the suggestion in the edit is basically what I was thinking about. Basically that every user starts with a “favorites” sequence that you can add things to from the triple-dot.
A mechanism for comments in particular would be valuable—I feel like this is where the best criticism lies, and it is very rarely captured in a larger post.
Also it seems difficult to trace the genesis of an idea; comments are a common inflection point.
Yeah, the team has discussed bookmarks a bunch and I expect us to implement it sooner or later. And oddly enough, when we thought through the features we’d want out of bookmarks, they did end up looking very sequence-like, to the point that we considered retrofitting “sequence” into a more general version of itself.
(i.e. you could easily want multiple reading lists, arranged by topic or how-much-effort it seemed to read)