Article Look and Feel

Here’s what each article looks like in my reader. Here a list of the sections as shown on the left of the image.

Title & Link - Article title and the link clicks through a tracking page that logs the followed links.

Actions - More info on this below.

Action Display - This area is normally hidden unless an action is clicked that needs additional input.

Text - Body of the post.

Metadata - Additional data in this order now: Weight, Diggs and Techmeme flag.

Favicon - This is the favicon pulled from the blog.

Favorite - Marks it for long time storage. Used for posts like how-to’s or as a reference.

Mark Read - Marks the article read and longs time for usage reporting.

Review - Flags the article for later. Used when I don’t have time to fully read so I can get back to it. Main difference between this and favorite is that these are just flagged until I get a chance to really read the article.

Email - Right now hooked up to gmail so I can send an article to a friend.

del.icio.us - This brings up the del.icio.us interface with link and title prepopulated.

Blog it - This displays a small textbox for me to enter in 120 characters of text which posts to twitter, tumlbr and jaiku. It’s 120 characters because I reserve 20 for the tinyurl automatically inserted into post. Examples: http://twitter.com/smilbandit

Info - I haven’t figured out what I want to do with this yet. I know I want to be able to link to a source of additional data for this post but I’m not sure what that is yet.

Tags - Pulls up the tags associated with this article.