Places:Fx3PRDMeetingNotes

Fx3 Bookmarks/History Meeting Notes

1/11/07 Talking about bookmarks/history features in Fx3, contrasting the themes from the [Places meeting at the Fx Summit] against the [Fx3 Requirements].

This is mostly as talked about in the meeting, with some organization done by me for readability.

problem: hard to find bookmarks if you have a lot
unify the output of the different locations: urlbar/searchbar/etc to include bookmarks?
motivation: can't find what you're looking for
NFR - improve discoverability of where you've been before
FR - list bookmarks in location bar dropdown
FR - "see more" under the last 5 hist entries
FR - sort location bar dropdown by MRU (if user uses bms, then put those first, if stars, else history)
FR - sort location bardropdown by MRVisited (and what other metadata?)
location bar vs search: your stuff vs web stuff
if it's clear that user is not entering a url, switch to search bar behavior
flock search suggest, spotlight - search bar dropdown shows everything we have
NFR: "search across local web experience"
FR: unify the result set (querying for data)
FR: UI about when/where you want that search
FR: UI about parsing/viewing the results

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FR: add favicons to locbar dropdown, elsewhere?
FR: better search of history in location bar (search page title and fti not just url)
FR: type-ahead search based on multiple criteria
NFR: people type a bunch of shit into locbar, we can make it more useful

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do we need for N/FRs for management of metadata?
NFR: gotta search for things based on when you saw it, what it's called, what you were searching for, where it came from, whether you found it interesting
use aggregate information to increase usefulness of search
managing by annotation?
don't need management organizer if the search results UI allows delete/edit
NFR: "shortcuts" vs bookmarks - is this same as "auto-bookmarking"
what's the motivation for deleting? (these are possibly NFRs)
- false positives (that search result sucks, never show it to me again) - UI-entanglement: "never remember passwords", etc
- clean up history
- removing clutter (un-boomark, un-star)

possible UIs for marking things as interesting:

eat places-platform dogfood and implement starring/tagging as extension
need to enumerate the platform requirements for places, add to docs
should hook up w/ shaver+team to talk about places platform requirements for extension developers