Hi Sean,

Sean Brady wrote:
> I have just started taking a serious look at Simpy...having used
> pretty much every social bookmarking tool out there. My main method
> of bookmark storage is anti-social (using Onfolio 2.0 professional).
> I used del.icio.us primarily before that.
>
> I will start by saying I like the interface, it seems simple, and is
> generally pretty easy to use.

Thanks. Most people seem to like Simpy's UI.

> I do seem to get errors on occasion,
> perhaps more frequently than i should, but that may be that I am
> online at particularly busy times.

Hm, please let me know what errors you are getting (please send them to
feedback@s...) - you shouldn't be getting any of them, and if you are, I
want to fix them.

> I wanted to share a couple of thoughts, suggestions, and ideas about
> the site...perhaps they will be useful.
>
> 1) One of the firs things i Noticed was that each page seems to be
> named user. If I am viewing my links, or anyone elses the page (an in
> turn the tab in Firefox) are all called user. Looking at multiple
> tabs makes it difficult to see whose page is whose. Would be cool if
> the name was more specific.

I'll add that to my TODO list.

> 2) The new delicious interface, with the option to show the tag cloud
> on the main page is very nice. I would love to see the tag cloud
> brought to the main user page. I realize the tag cloud is pretty new
> as it is...

Which delicious interface you are referring to? The Tag Cloud will
likely remain a non-default page, but I will be splitting Tag Management
and Tag Cloud into separate screens, so access to Tag Management
functions is faster for those with large clouds (mine is huge!)

> 3) Link history, and any sort of trending, is very cool. I would
> love to see the year either dropped or reduced to 2 characters..its a
> bit hard to read today. It would also be neat to click the bars and
> have that range of posts displayed.

I'll see if/how I can do this, although I'm not sure if it would add all
that much value. But I could be missing something. Is is valuable to
see all bookmarks for a given link, added during a time period? Why not
just show all bookmarks for the given link? (this is what's shown below
the graph)

> 4) I think it has been mentioned, but the ability to see ALL Simpy
> posts (regardless of user) for a particular tag would be valuable, as
> would the ability to see all tags that have been assigned to a site.

That feature is in the works. I hope to have it out in the first half
of September.

> 5) Of course I would love to see 3rd party integration with Onfolio.
> Its a great offlne bookmark and information manager...not to mention
> a great RSS reader.

I'll have to look at Onfolio. How do you see the two integrating? I
thought Onfolio was a "desktop" app with functionality that overlaps
with that of Simpy, no?

> Anyway, I will be hanging around for a while, playing with the tool...

Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it. If you have more insights,
please post them.

> Sean
> http://simpy.com/simpy/User.do?username=geekadept

Otis