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)

Notes from the red book - part 4

Help pages A selection of pages intended to help users with various things. Including stuff about the site and creative writing in general.

- Writing advice/exercises Help and tips on creative writing, as well as exercises intended to improve writing skills
- user written - wiki? Help pages could be user written, possibly as a selection of articles or in wiki form
- FAQ for the site
- Manifesto about openness Talking about the benefits of collaboration and openness as well as reasons behind using open source technology, etc
- Recommendations about what to use with the site Programmes that can be used to access the site or in conjunction with it
- - Firefox (no need to write spell check programme) Firefox has a built-in spell-checker, which would remove the need to have one built into the editor
- - Commons licensing Creative Commons licensing and why to use it, etc
- - Recommend open source programmes In general, such as things like Open Office/AbiWord or Linux, etc