| Category | Priority | Effort | Task | Description | Related discussions |
| Recommendations | |||||
| 2 | 2 | Re-open recommendations | Recomendations have been down since early April when we were solving some performance issues. Need to reintroduce these features. | ||
| 3 | 4 | Improved recommendations algorithms | A new recommendations algorithm that will run "offline" during the night and return far better recommendations as it can weigh in a wide range of "relation variables" that are impossible to use in a real-time algorithm like the current one. | ||
| Personal lists | |||||
| 1 | 2 | Introduce an All category | Show a "virtual category" at the top of all category trees titled "All". Long time Spurl.net users will remember this one. It simply lists all user's spurls regardless of category, tag, etc. This would also be available, at least in some of the publishing templates. | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2506 | |
| 2 | 1 | BUG: Paging lists doesn't remember order | When spurls in a category view have been ordered (other than the default by Time) the setting is not preserved when paging down the list or moving to another category | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2791#2791 | |
| 2 | 2 | Show number of spurls for tag | Show the number of spurls for a given tag in the same way as the number of spurls in a given category is currently shown. | ||
| 2 | 2 | Show tags and categories in personal lists | Show the tags that have been assigned to a spurl in all personal lists, as well as any category it may belong to (both with links to the tag or category in question). | ||
| 3 | 1 | Icon in lists to indicate private | Place an icon next to a link in personal lists to indicate which spurls are private. | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2784#2784 | |
| 3 | 3 | Spurl management in all user's lists | Ability to delete, copy, move, edit, etc. From any personal list in the interface (e.g. Tags, Analysis and Search results) | ||
| 5 | 2 | Mail contents of category | Send all links from a view in one email along with titles and descriptions. | ||
| Import / Export | |||||
| 1 | 3 | Import usability issues | Current import page is quite confusing and the javascript that handles marking links for inclusion / exclusion is flawed. | ||
| 2 | 1 | Export "real" htm file | Export as a .htm file to eliminate confusion with the current "Save as..." method. | ||
| 2 | 2 | More configurable javascript list | Allow furhter configuration of the javascript lists (that allow inclusion of spurl lists in other web pages) to decide what information should be included with each link and how it should be presented | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2343#2343 | |
| 2 | 3 | del.icio.us integration update | The del.icio.us integration needs a little facelift: re-posting to del.icio.us whenver information in Spurl.net is changed, 2-way synchronization (optional), and the ability to disconnect a del.icio.us account from a Spurl.net account | ||
| 2 | 3 | Full backup | Export as a ZIP-file with all information (probably as extended XBEL file) and all cached copies. | ||
| 3 | 1 | Check modified | A simple method to check when a spurl collection was last modified to use with synchronization features. | ||
| 3 | 2 | XBEL support | Ability to import and more importantly export all spurl bookmarks in XBEL format. This would also include "exposing" bookmarks as XBEL to allow other applications (e.g. Web browsers / extensions) to fetch this data from a central location. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Multiple publish | Allow one user to publish multiple bookmark collections (might want to publish all work links as one collection and all chess links as another using different templates). | ||
| 3 | 3 | More publishing templates | Create more templates to publish link collections and allow custom templates. | ||
| 3 | 4 | Bookmark synchronization | Automatic syncronization with browser bookmarks. This has several merits, among them an always-up-to-date local backup of Spurl.net bookmarks, "spurling" of links that are added directly to favorites, etc. This needs to be done with browser specific extensions and plugins and will probably first be available through the open source Spurl bar extension: http://spurlbar.mozdev.org/ | ||
| Spurl bar | |||||
| 2 | 1 | BUG: Clicking an empty category causes error | If an empty category is clicked in the Spurll bar it shows: "You have not spurled any page yet" | ||
| 2 | 2 | Improved tag navigation in spurl bar | Further improve the tag navigation in the bar. There are some issues with keyboard navigation in Internet Explorer. Also: easy "up one level" navigation so that when clicking a tag from the list of selected tags, it will backtrack the tag list. | ||
| 2 | 3 | Mac Spurl bar issues | There are several issues with the Spurl bar on all non-Firefox browsers on MacOS, rendering at least the tag navigation unusable. | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2604#2604 | |
| 2 | 4 | Improve folder list in Spurl bar | Make the javascript tree build dynaimcly using AJAX like methods (already using similar methods for the tag lists) this will dramatically improve load times and easy navigation especially for large bookmark collections. | ||
| 3 | 1 | Link to My Spurls in Spurl bar | Ability to open My Spurls from the Spurl bar in a simple manner. | ||
| 3 | 1 | tooltip with full title when title is truncated in Spurl bar | Titles in category navigatio tree are truncated at 40 characters. In that case, the tooltip (title tag) should hold the full title for improved usability | ||
| Spurling (bookmarking) | |||||
| 2 | 1 | BUG: Save copy returns 404 | Currently not possible to store another cached copy of an already spurled page. | ||
| 2 | 2 | Tag auto complete | Auto complete (from user's previously used tags) and suggestions (from other users and automated methods) for tags when spurling a page | ||
| 2 | 2 | Pop-up free Spurl link | Make an official version of "full-screen-spurling" perhaps even making that the default method: It will have bigger input fields, and easier access to various Spurl features (emailing the link, seeing related pages and more). | ||
| 2 | 2 | Spurl without installation | Make "spurling" possible from any computer without even installing the bookmarklet. Probably the same can be done for opening the spurl bar. | ||
| 2 | 2 | Manually adding link | Ability to manually add a link to the spurl collection (by entering the url) | ||
| 2 | 4 | Multiple snips and unlimited snip size | Ability to put any web page into "Spurl mode" allowing userrs to block multiple snips from a single page and annotate the snips to some degree. | ||
| 3 | 2 | BUG: Multiple category doesn't work in Opera | Spurling to multiple categories does not work in Opera (javascript issue) | ||
| 3 | 2 | Allow spurl duplicates | Allow the same page to be spurled multiple times with different details, even into the same category - but always with a warning that the page has been spurled before. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Storing the entire page | Store images and CSS for a complete backup of a page. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Post to blog | Ability to (optionally) post a link that is being spurled to a blog as a blog entry. | ||
| Spurl management | |||||
| 2 | 2 | Allow deletion of category branches | Delete category, sub-categories and all spurls in those upon user's confirmation. | ||
| 2 | 3 | Edit url | Ability to edit URLs for a spurl. | ||
| 2 | 3 | Tagging improvements | Rename / Merge / Split tags, mass tagging | ||
| 3 | 3 | Drag and drop spurl management | Ability to move and copy spurls to and from categories and tags using drag-and-drop | ||
| Discovery | |||||
| 2 | 1 | Spurl this icon in lists | Ability to spurl a link directly from any discovery lists. | ||
| 2 | 2 | A "report this link" flag | Ability to report suspected spam, wrongly categorized "explicit" material and other things when links like that are seen in lists. | ||
| 3 | 2 | List published users | Publish a list of all users that have publicly published their link collection (how many p's is that?) | ||
| 3 | 4 | Reintroduce topics | Automated methods to categorize incoming links to 10 different topics were disabled in early March to deal with load issues. This must be rewritten and reintroduced. | ||
| 4 | 2 | "By media type" lists | Show hot, new, fresh, etc. Lists by media type (hot images, hot videos, hot pdfs, hot RSS feeds, ...) | ||
| Groups | |||||
| 2 | 5 | Make a "conventional" group mechanism | The Spurl.net streams got mixed reviews and people have been asking for a more "conventional" group mechanism. This will be highly useful for workgroups, classes and others that want to share and have "faith" in the quality of information from other group members. Imagine being able to search all the good programming resources gathered by your workgroup... | ||
| Settings | |||||
| 3 | 1 | BUG: Settings page layout issues | The explanations on the settings page are too far away from their respective fields to be of use. | ||
| 3 | 2 | Profile information | Allow users to put in more profile information (to help with recommendations and other personalization) and site-wide preferences (such as whether or not to open links in new windows, whether or not to use tags and / or categories and more). Profile and preference information will of course be used in line with our privacy policy, i.e. not shared with anybody and excluded from data mining in any personally identifiable way - and completely optional. | ||
| Localizations | |||||
| 2 | 3 | Dutch translation | Finalize and realese. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Danish translation | Finalize and realese. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Portugese translation | Finalize and realese. | ||
| 3 | 3 | Turkish translation | Finalize and realese. | ||
| 3 | 4 | Translation interface | Make a simple web interface for translators to translate and later maintain translations (as new things are added, etc.) | ||
| Spurl bot / Analysis | |||||
| 3 | 3 | Show changed pages | Show pages in collection that have changed since last visit / since spurled. | ||
| Misc | |||||
| 1 | 3 | Category <> tags migration | A simple interface to be able to convert categories to tags (applying a set of tags to all pages in a category) and vice versa. | ||
| 2 | 1 | BUG: No message for a failed login | If a user enters wrong username and pasword, the login page is reloaded without any explanation or error / warning message. | ||
| 2 | 1 | Spurl-bar link on front page | Add "Open spurl bar" link to the front page so that an installation or a bookmarklet is not needed on a computer one is temporarily using. | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?id=521 | |
| 2 | 2 | Improved consensus | Make consensus take into account all users' descriptions and allow users to ask for suggestions for page descriptions, so that more options will have a chance of becoming a page's "consensus". | ||
| 3 | 1 | No subscription buttons on pages with more than one list | There are no "Subscribe with Bloglines", "Add to My Yahoo", etc. Links on the front page or elsewhere where there is more than one link list. | ||
| 3 | 1 | BUG: Looking up cached pages can behave oddly | Probably a URL-encoding issue. Spurl has a copy and shows it but seems "unaware" of the fact :) | http://www.spurl.net/help/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2588#2588 | |
| 3 | 2 | Category settings | Default settings for categories: Private, default tags, description. When spurling to a certain category these settings will override the "global" defaults. | ||
| 3 | 2 | Show submenus on main menu mouseover | Show the sub-menu items when hovering over the tabs at the top of the main interface (Home, My spurls, Discover, etc.) - this allows navigating to any sub page without first loading another page. | ||
| 3 | 2 | Taborder / Access keys | Make keyboard navigation for the entire interface as simple and usable as possible. This includes checking the taborder for all pages in the interface and setting access keys to commonly used functions. | ||
| 3 | 2 | Opera layout issues | The tabs at the top of the main interface look ugly. There are also some issues with the layout of the spurl window. | ||
| 3 | 2 | spurl-setup.exe fails when run by non-admin user on WinXP SP2 | Catch this and point people to the bookmarklet installation and explain what is happening. | ||
| 3 | 3 | XHTML compliance | Make all pages fully XHTML compliant. | ||
| 4 | 2 | Integrated login to forums | Use the Spurl.net login to identify people on the forums as well. |