tagging

[lmrhody]

When an item is selected from a feed in the middle panel, the far right hand panel still has the same options: info, notes, tags, related. How might tags relate to feeds and to items in feeds? In other words, will tags become associated with the feed or would tags only become associated with the item? Either case, what would happen to the tag if a user moves an individual item from a feed into one of their collections? Will the tag stay associated with the item?

[aurimasv]

Notes are probably going to be irrelevant to feeds as will the related tab. Once we get translator support and feed items get updated with metadata directly from websites, notes may get populated (we have a small number of translators that add notes).

Tags may get populated by keywords in the feed that are associated with individual items (not the whole feed), though I can't say that I've seen a feed that provides this metadata (I wasn't really paying close attention to tags). They would get populated by translator updates though. Whether tags are shown for feed items is currently not controlled by the "Automatically tag items..." preference, but we may want it affecting either tags in feed library right away or only when dragging to other libraries.

When dragging to other libraries, the tags would remain associated with the item (it's possible that they do not currently, which is also the case for authors #14 ).

In general, feed library is a specialized, read-only library (like a group library with no write permissions), feeds are specialized collections, and feed items are basically just items with read/unread functionality. That's actually literally how this is implemented. So almost anything that works with regular items in read-only group libraries will work the same way for feed library.