• Registered: 2009-08-28
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Topic: A competing/concurrent approach

I have now used Taggedfrog for a few days and quite like the experience. allow me some suggestions for your further development:

Have a look at http://www.jannemijn.nl/gui.pdf. This comes from the same guy who developed FolderView. When integrating with MS Office, you may want to look at his approach. I like they way he shows the cloud inside an Office "Save File" dialogue

Even better would be to use an existing function in Word to highlight words or phrases ( the bookmark tool? ) and automatically insert those in the tag cloud as associated with this file.

Doing the same in a PDF file is a little harder as so many people use Acrobat reader or freeware like cutepdf, all of which have no editing functions.

Are you planning to include webpages?  Will you make a local save? in html?  txt? ave a look at www.surfulator.com for a (free trial- paid) tagging engine which began its functionality on webpages. some nice features.

I expect that with increased modes to create tags, there will grow the need to manage and merge tags. Like "tag" "tags" and "tagging" merging into "tags"

I've just invited you on Linkedin; have a look at "tagging on the fly" in the "Answers" tab, for some other recommendations

  • From: Toronto
  • Registered: 2009-01-13
  • Posts: 261

Re: A competing/concurrent approach

Hi Eric,

Thanks for you suggestions. I will "process" them next week when return from vacations cool

Andrei

  • Registered: 2009-08-28
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Re: A competing/concurrent approach

One more:
I am currently reading a 187 page pdf document. It's a typical e-book so the value of the message is thin and buried amongst layers of fluff. I am using tagged frog and as I read, I type or tick the tagwords. Good.  Now, however, on which page of the 187 did that occurr?  can of course use the ctr-F tool, but .............
One more:
As I use tagged frog more and more, I begin to understand how personal tagging is. Scanning is nice, but I'd say that if you want a quality cloud, you'll have to actually read the lot and tag by hand. Serious research takes a bit of hard work. never mind

  • Registered: 2009-08-28
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Re: A competing/concurrent approach

Still using your frog. Now playing (trying) with Bookmark. how does that work ?

  • From: Toronto
  • Registered: 2009-01-13
  • Posts: 261

Re: A competing/concurrent approach

As usual, drag a link from browser and drop to the program smile

  • Registered: 2009-08-28
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Re: A competing/concurrent approach

Andrei Marukovich wrote:

As usual, drag a link from browser and drop to the program smile

Andrei; do not understand your reply.
Using Tagged frog begins with windows Explorer, from where I drop a file in Tagged Frog (Add Items). I typically have 2 windows open; TaggedFrog and the document/video I'm viewing. As I go through the document, I pick tags from the existing list or add new tags. Once I've read the document, I close both windows.  so far so good
Now a bookmark, as I understand it, is a specifc point inside the text which I can mark using the MS Word or Acrobat "bookmark function. Great.
now, how do I pull that bookmark from inside MS word to your taggedfrog application?

  • From: Toronto
  • Registered: 2009-01-13
  • Posts: 261

Re: A competing/concurrent approach

Bookmark is a web URL, not text-related bookmark.
So, you can only use it to store some links to web pages.