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Contents 1 IRC shailation mechanism 1.1 The Old Ways 1.2 New Tool workflow 1.3 Future Tool

IRC shailation mechanism

The context of Shaila is basically IRC-centric, so this is an extension of that experience.

The Old Ways

1. rethreading conversations and sorting by topic
2. list of topics with links to appropriate portions of the irc logs
3. some mixture of both, tending toward summarizing commentary and/or quipping.

New Tool workflow

• current

1. 1. select start
   2. select end
   3. select lines to trim from range
   4. return magic url to range
   5. use result in something like "the old way" #3

• future

1. 1. add selection and input boxes to step 4

• • • select known tag, or enter new tag

1. 1. enhance UI

• • • range selection
      • select "range start" button on appropriate line
      • select "range end" button on appropriate line
      • javascript checks the checkboxes in the range
      • manually uncheck to trim lines from range
    • tagging
      • add type-ahead to input box
      • nested tags and associated UI

Future Tool

• hack
  • sql tables
    • one stores unique tags
    • another stores the url and the tag used
  • maybe track who/when somehow, although I'm not expecting more than one person to shailai the same source/event, initially
• future
  • enable "future workflow" above
  • refactor data storage
  • Extrapolate "IRC tag schema" to ThinkingToolKit schemas