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Onfolio 3.0 Wishlist

I think it is safe to say that most users of Onfolio 1.0 will be happy with the changes that have been made in 2.0.  I am not most users and am already thinking about what I would like to see in 3.0.   I think that everyone wants to see increases in performance, decreases in memory usage and file size, so I will stick to fun features that I hope get considered, and included in version 3.0 (or even 2.1 because these really should not be to hard to implement).  :)

  • Visit counts:  I use Onfolio as a bookmark manager about as much as I use it for a feed reader.  I bookmark tons of stuff and only get back to a fraction of it.  At least it is their if it is needed.  One think I would love to see Onfolio include in the next version is a counter for link items.  Something so that I can see how many times I have visited a page (via Onfolio) and preferably sort by visit count.
  • Synchronization:  This seems to be a popular topic, and I will throw in my opinion.  Its just to easy to be in front of a few computers each day.  The ability to synch feed status and feed lists between multiple machines is hugely important.
  • Local File Monitor:  I am not sure what will come of integration with desktop search programs, perhaps nothing, but I do know that I have a lot of files on my computer that I would love to have included in searches in Onfolio.  I don't always want to add the files to Onfolio, but I do want to search them.  I would love to see a way to tell Onfolio to add all files in a set of directories to the index (as a shortcut to a local file), and then index them.  I also think this alit should monitor those folders for changes and add new and updated files to the collection as they become available.
  • Blogging, blogging, blogging:  The blogging support in Onfolio is ok.  Next step is to reach to greatness.  When I post to my blog I set categories, keywords(tags), and often point to other files.  I would love to see Onfolio further embrace the blog based method of information sharing and expand the ability to format posts, add post metadata, and actually I would really love to see the ability to retrieve, edit and repost items all via the Onfolio interface.  If only everyone would use WordPress like me and then the guys at Onfolio would not have to worry about making this request work with all the other blog engines.
  • RSS Enclosures:  Some nice handling of enclosures would be cool.  My suggestion is that for each feed we be allowed to select either a collection/folder or local folder to automatically download and store enclosures in.
  • Web Posting:  The last thing, at least for now, that I would like to see is the ability to better format and control the web pages and RSS files that Onfolio publishes.  I think it would be great to be able to build Onfolio templates, similar to how we build blog templates, that would pull data from Onfolio on a schedule for web posting.  Each folder we chose to publish can be assigned a template which allows us to take all of the components (link, description, keywords etc) and place them in our own HTML with our own CSS.  That would be very cool.
Well, those are my wishlist items.  What are yours?  Regardless of what happens with 3.0 (or 2.5) I think that Onfolio is a great product with an tremendously improved set of features and functions...here's to the future.

Posted by Sean Brady on March 28, 2005 at 05:48 PM | Permalink

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Absolutely, 100%, a deal breaker for me: Sync with Bloglines and/or NewsGator Web. It's the only thing that's stopping me switching to Onfolio.

Also, better inking support: the combination of Onfolio and Tablet PC would be a killer.

Posted by: Ian Betteridge | Mar 29, 2005 6:16:36 AM

I gave up on my Tablet. I had a slate and the lack of a keyboard just made it hard to use. Now I only use the tablet on very very rare occasions. I can see where some cool ink features would make it a nice TPC app though.

Posted by: Sean | Mar 29, 2005 7:19:27 AM

Yup. Better ink support is high on my list too. Great suggestions Sean.

Posted by: Marc Orchant | Mar 29, 2005 8:11:40 AM

Yeah, the synchronization idea is a good one. I decided to try to be cute and move my feeds file to my gmail drive as a poor man's sync. However, the file is ~300 megs and gmail didn't like that too much. :)

Posted by: DougW | Mar 29, 2005 11:45:48 AM

Lower memory usage. I know memory is (really) cheap, but 20+ MB is pretty heavy.

Posted by: Anon-e-mouse | Mar 30, 2005 12:27:10 AM

Bloglines sync is now available:

http://www.onfolio.com/support/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=677

Posted by: Joe Cheng | Mar 30, 2005 9:26:13 AM

Snyching between several pcs (instances of onfolio) is really really impportant. Also it is very necessary to be able to search only in a specific folder or feed.

Posted by: bonk | Jul 23, 2005 11:40:04 AM

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