Help: BlueOrganizer Tutorial
In this tutorial we are going to show how you can use the blueorganizer to manage and quickly find your objects. You will see that it is called organizer for a good reason! Remember those days when you spent time sifting through your bookmarks, trying to make sense of them all? Well, those days are gone!
Find your bluemarks
Say you are looking for the movie Sideways. Select the Movie collection. Then, type the first few letters of the title into the Find Text box. The view changes as you type and you quickly find the movie you are looking for!
Note that the Status Label displays the number of matching objects and tells you how the objects are organized.
What if you do not remember the name of the movie, but remember the actor? No problem. Type the first few letters of the actor's name (giam) into the Find Text box. In this case, it is an exact match!
You can actually search by any attribute. For example, you can find books by your favorite author or find your favorite gadget by model number. Try it!
It gets better. Say you want to find all movies that you own. Just type own it into the Find Text box. That's the search adaptiveblue style.
And now we will learn about tagging and how the Tag Filter works
Tag Filter
Tagging offers a new way of identifying and finding your objects. In the old days, you would file a bookmark under a specific folder in your browser bookmarks. This is how you classified and categorized your links. The problem is that such a hierarchy quickly grows out of control. All of us at some point had to struggle through finding particular link that we stored a while ago.
The truth is the hierarchical structure of bookmarks can not really work. Each web page is a complex piece of information that is virtually impossible to classify under one simple category. Tagging offers a much welcomed, simpler, yet more powerful alternative. Instead of filing a bookmark under a particular folder, you decorate it with a set of descriptive tags. Each tag is a single word of a phrase that makes this particular object relevant and memorable for you. This makes finding objects almost as easy as remembering tags!
The blueorganizer takes the concept of tagging to a whole new level by introducing the mixture of automation and human-editable tags. When you extract the bluemarks from your favorite web sites, the blueorganizer automatically suggests a set of tags.
You are always free to change the automated tags and/or add the ones that you like. Once the object is stored in one of your collections, blueorganizer makes it easy to look it up by its tag. Here is an example:
Say you want to find all the albums in your music collection tagged with the pop tag. Switch to the Music collection and click on the Tag Filter. The list of tags is shown as depicted below:
Note that next to each tag, you see the number of objects in this collection that are tagged with it. Now select pop from the list. As shown on the right, only albums tagged with this tag are displayed.
Combination Search
We will now look at the sure and fast way to find your object with blueorganizer - a Combination search. This technique combines the Tag Filter and the Find Text tools.
Say you are looking for a particular camera in your Electronics collection. You first can use the Tag Filter and select cameras tag. This will narrow the list of matching objects down to only those that are tagged with this tag. Next, you remember that it is a camera made by Canon and you type canon in the Find Text box. Voila! The matching camera is found!
So with blueorganizer most of the time you can find object in three easy steps using collection, tag, and attribute:
- What sort of object is it? A book, a movie or a gadget? Select the right collection.
- Think of a tag related to this object and then select this tag in the Tag Filter.
- Finally, think of another attribute of this object. An author, a model or an artist and type this attribute in the Find Text box.
No matter how deep it is buried inside your collection, regardless of how long ago you found this object, even if your collection is hundreds or, we hope, thousands of objects, you can still find a single object in (at most) three easy steps. That's the search adaptiveblue style.
Organize Your Collections
In addition to powerful searching and filtering, blueorganizer allows you to organize your collections by various criteria. For example, in the Books collection books can be organized by author and in the Electronics collection the gadgets can be organized by the manufacturer. To organize the objects just click the organize organize button and choose the order you are looking for.
And now go ahead and explore the features we just discussed with your blueorganizer.
