Notes from the red book - part 6

Categories Pieces will be organised into categories based on genre (romance, sci-fi, etc), length (short story, novel, etc), style (poetry, prose, etc), and more

- Can be specific or generic Users define what level of a category their piece is placed in
- - Multiple categories Pieces can be placed in multiple categories (so a love story that takes place in space, can be in romance as well as sci-fi)
- Category browsing Users can browse categories and their sub-categories, with pieces within those categories organised in various ways (user-definable)

Searching Allowing users to search through pieces

- Simple search and advanced search Simple search can just be on a keyword, such as "spaceship. Advanced search allows things such as only searching within specific categories (such as if you only want sci-fi short stories) or pieces by a certain user
- Random functions
- - Random piece Navigates to a random piece when clicked
- - Random author Navigates to the profile of a random user when clicked
- - Within a category Random pieces are selected from within a certain category
- Define your interests Allows a user to define what kind of writing they like to read
- - Recommendations? Recommends pieces for a user to read based on their preferences, possibly with a bias towards pieces with little to no comments
- - - User submitted? Users could possibly vote for pieces they think should be featured, either in specific categories, or across the whole site (so there would be "top pieces this week", as well as "top sci-fi pieces this week" or "top short stories this week", etc)