[Design] Saving Search Collections

[D John Anderson]

If I understand your email correctly, I think the way save search  
results works today is the same as your proposal here except for:

- Search results don't automatically refresh
- And I don't understand what you mean by "Be reflected on its member  
items as a 'Label' (aka the 'Appears in' field)"

The saved search results collection is just what you would get if you  
made a new collection and dragged all the items in the search results  
to it.

John

On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Apologies for the deluge of emails, but I think this should  
> splinter off into a separate thread.
>
> So, my understanding is that a long time ago, we decided to defer  
> this feature to post-Preview for a number of reasons.
>
> From the user scenarios we collected, we reconfirmed Mitch's  
> original insight that we really want saved queries to be:
> + Automatically refreshed
> + Support inclusions and exclusions (e.g.
> + Be reflected on its member items as a 'Label' (aka the 'Appears  
> in' field)
> + Be shareable
>
> This means our search collections (unlike the ones in alpha4) would  
> essentially behave like all other support Drag and Drop of items  
> both IN and OUT of the collection. AND users would be able to name  
> the search collection.
>
> I can believe that there are phasing proposals that would make it  
> possible for us to implement a portion of this design with minimal  
> usability fallout. However, at this late stage, I am hesitant to go  
> down that path, as I personally don't have the bandwidth to devote  
> much energy to new designs and I fear we are running out of time to  
> have many more rounds of experimentation with Search.
>
> Ultimately, this is product/schedule call, so I defer to Sheila's  
> judgement on this issue.
>
> That being said, we could put some energy into a menu feature that  
> stored saved searches into a separate palette. I think that would  
> be sufficiently out of the realm of the sidebar that users won't  
> have misguided expectations about how the saved searches should  
> behave.
>
> We can revisit this issue after Preview with some user feedback.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 10:54 AM, D John Anderson wrote:
>
>> Finally, what did you think about letting the user save the search  
>> results in a collection?
>>
>> John
>