Further Design Discussion

[Pugio]

Looks like there's decent interest in this. Some ideas for building it out further:

• calendar/schedule view of upcoming triads (poem, story, essay)
• ability to generate/modify a schedule at user initialization
• and then name that schedule
• and share it with others, so you can have
• multiple people progressing through the oeuvre in sync

After that you can add group tracking features to share/discuss the current reading, see who else is on the same track as you, and join tracks currently in progress.

• user ratings/comments on a work
• ability to add SO community-wiki-like summaries to each work
• along with topic tagging:
• eg. "Topics: politics, philosophy. Difficulty: (1-5 stars). Intensity: perhaps... emotional impact"

Eventually this will let people be more selective about the works on their list. A generation system could be configured with minimum rating, and constrained by topic, author, time period, etc.

Looking at this, it seems I'm describing a collaborative lifelong-reading system with social enhancements. Viva la future.

[dreger]

What you've just described sounds beautiful -- thanks for the inspiration!