Comments on: Quick Note For Interesting Idea: Desktop Wide Annotation Service

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:11:43 +0000

I had previously hoped that sticky notes might be made into a library and it might become possible to attach sticky notes within a PDF document or graphic program (see Adobe Photoshop) or diagramming program (see Visio) since I’ve seen the idea before.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:07:32 +0000

I blogged about my experiences with bibliographies on Linux recently. Take a look at the post and the comments, if you haven't seen it already.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:16:28 +0000

Extended …
Your Tomboy note open on my desktop when I go to your website or open one of your documents (OOo or evince). They integrate into my Tomboy schema.

I can subcribe to my friends Tomboy notes and have them display whenever I arrive at the juncture (web or desktop) that they created them.

Great idea.

By: Sergio Villar

Sergio Villar — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:24:20 +0000

I read also that book some months ago. I agree with you that it’s a great source for a lot of topics.

I think your idea is very interesting, it would be something like a wiki-desktop.

By: Bruce D'Arcus

Bruce D'Arcus — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:06:43 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing for awhile, and am now working on enhancing OpenDocument metadata support as one small part of it.

I think what would be useful is a generic system-level metadata service, based on RDF. An annotation would then just be one of many possible uses of it. Think too copy-and-pasting metadata along with content, maybe a system-level bibliography service, etc.