OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/The Journal

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The Journal

The Notion of "Keeping"

No more "open" and "save"...

Temporal Organization

Timeline...

Level of detail...

Granularity...

Falloff...

A Typical Journal Entry

Implicit...

Explicit...

The Power of Metadata

Implicit...

Ratings...

Use frequency...

Powerful Filtered Searching & Sorting

Filtering...

Sorting...

Special filters: about to be removed, lazy deleted (trash can), in progress...

Implicit Versioning System

Automatic, incremental saves...

Viewing revision history...

Automatic Backup and Restore

Automatic backups to server...

Full restore (temporal)...

Partial restore(by object)...

Temporary restore...

The Journal as a Progress Indicator

Two stages for entries...