As far as the Del.icio.us interface, if you go to del.icio.us now and
change the view as (below your tags) from list to cloud, that is what
I am refering to. having a huge vertical list of tags can be
overwhelming. The cloud view is nice, especially integrated into the
main page.

The reason I mention the change to the trending of link histories, is
simply to ease jumping to a range of dates. The reason i like to look
at people who tag in different date ranges is to find related items.
I have found that people who tag an item early on are typically
finding that link as part of a daily RSS read. Those who find it
later are often doing research, and looking more closely at the sites
that user has marked can often reveal items I missed on a topic.

I think Onfolio is foremost a web research tool. But it does make a
nice bookmark manager. I have about 1000 pages bookmarked and tagged
in Onfolio. Joe Cheng at Onfolio seems to be the integration guru
there. I would love to see Simpy able to browse to a collection in
Onfolio (on the local drive), and extract (synch) the links along with
description and keywords (tags). its a long shot, and only useable by
a small number of people...but we can all dream.

Thanks,
Sean
--- In simpy-user@yahoogroups.com, Otis Gospodnetic <otis@s...> wrote:
> 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