Blink Project                                               -*-org-*-

Date: 2011-11-16

BLINK (weB LINK) is a project I've had in mind for a number of years
that would provide a way to store, organize, and retrieve links to
Internet resources of interest. The primary aims of blink are to
provide an index of links in reverse chronological access order to
provide context of Internet research on projects that have gone cold
for some time, and client platform independence so I can access links
from any PC or browser.

I'd also like to have both public and private links.

Have already been collecting links in *.blink files in directories
corresponding to the link's primary category. File contents are fixed
with link title on first line, URI on second, and optional notes
following.

* Name

Thinking of changing name since blinknet.com is an established social
bookmarking site.

* Functionality

** Bookmark storage

"Bookmarks" (if I may use the term) are stored as individual text
files within a file system subtree. Subdirectories correspond to
linked resource categories (limit to one-level). Bookmarks and
categories can be either created or modified either with a text
editor from a shell, or with a web-based CGI form.

Embed form on all blink pages. Bookmarklet popup.

Permit only site owner (me).

** Bookmark access

Access bookmarks from any browser (including back-level). Simple
style, efficient use of screen space. Filter by category or list all
in dataset. Category tag cloud. Sort bookmarks by most recent URI
access time. (Been planning to use blink file mtime, but is safety of
including date inside file worth trouble (processing time ...) of
maintaining?)

Category tag cloud (prioritize by recent access, number of blink
files, ...?).

Permit: me (black dataset), all (green dataset)

** "Marking"

Maintain date of last URI access on each blink file (mtime or date
attribute inside file). Allows me to review links associated with
idle projects, and others to see my recent interests.

Permit; site owner only