[Sigia-l] User experience taxonomy

[Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com]

Mark,

My advice is to try Powermarks.  I love this tool!  There's some basic 
info on why I love it on my blog:
http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/2002_01_20_crocolyle_archive.html#9027484

More info:
It's meant to be a bookmark manager, but that just doesn't cover it.  
You can build your own controlled vocabulary over time with this tool - 
using a feature it calls "tagged keywords".  You can also add more 
"regular" keywords to items. It also has lots of additional fields you 
can populate for each item, including: 

rating (NR, 1-10) 
name (usually page title)
url
add date
keywords
visited (# of times you've visited the page since added - very useful)
last visited (date)
Description
Notes
last modified (it will check for updates to the page)
status (changed, unchanged, and various errors)
Status checking, schedule, last checked (used if you want have 
individual setting for when the tool check the URL for changes)
Username / Password (if the URL is secured)

You can get pretty creative with keywords.  For example, anything I 
want to read later I add a keyword of "read" to.  If I want to blog 
about it later, I add "myblog" as a keyword.  I then type "myblog" into 
it's search box and it shows me anything with that keyword.  It's 
search is excellent, very fast, can do exact or partial matches and you 
can also limit it to just keywords (yours) or a full entry search (also 
hits thing in the name or description, etc.)

I hate the way Favorites and Bookmarks work.  I also can never find 
stuff I save on my hard drive - strict categorization is an issue.  
Where do you put stuff that fits in multiple places?  Powermarks has 
literally changed the way I work...  It also allows me to synch my data 
between PC's at home and work - very useful to me.

Disclaimer: I have no ties with or other personal reason to promote 
Powermarks other than I'm a satisfied user who would like to see this 
product succeed and evolve.

Searching the SIGIA-L archives looks like I owe a big "Thanks" to 
Eileen Turtle Parzek:
http://www.cwa.co.nz/~andrew/hypermail/sigia-l/0107/0061.html

See the related thread "Personal Knowledge/Research Management tool": 
http://www.cwa.co.nz/~andrew/hypermail/sigia-l/0107/index.html#57

Regards,

Lyle Kantrovich
User Experience Architect
Cargill 
http://www.cargill.com 

Croc O' Lyle: a personal web log on usability, IA, and web design
http://crocolyle.blogspot.com




-----Original Message-----
From: mark.reuten at didata.com.au [mailto:mark.reuten at didata.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:35 PM
To: listera at rcn.com
Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] User experience taxonomy

Ziya wrote:

>If you were like me (too lazy to individually index 3,000 items) you'd 
get
a
>hold of an indexing engine, point it to the appropriate directory and 
be
>done with it.

I have tried this approach using Microsoft Index server, I even added 
the
acrobat plug-in... The problem is that when I look for that one document
about information architecture it returns 400 documents... Since the
documents have not been categorized or tagged the index server will not
show me context or options how to further refine the found set of
results...leaving me again with too much information.