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To: John Busby who wrote (99)	11/22/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Phil(bullrider)	Respond to of 3372

John, I have about 85 threads bookmarked. I would like to have a way to label, or separate them. It really does not matter to me how you do it. Have fun, Phil

To: John Busby who wrote (99)	11/23/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 3372

The priority/non-priority approach sounds like my 2B idea except that you have designated a thread as the priority thread and I was leaving the user to select the thread into which he/she wanted new marked threads to go as uncharacterized. The Main/subcategories is what I meant when I referred to a master page in 2A. Same idea different names. You seem to favor the one click approach. It is faster initially, but is more work overall because to finish categorizing a thread the member will have to switch active bookmarks pages, select the thread to move, and then select the bookmarks page to move it to. In my favored alternative approach, when the member clicks once to bookmark a thread, he/she would be asked which of the bookmarks pages to move it to. This is much more intuitive for the member, since they're already thinking of why they are bookmarking the thread in the first place. It is also significantly less work for the member as well as being a one-and-done approach wherein the housekeeping is not left for later. If the member is not maintaining more than one page of bookmarks, then don't ask which one to move it to and it will be the same as it is now. I may be wrong here, but the immediate categorization approach does not seem to be more programming effort either. The routines to list the bookmarks pages a member has, get a selection from that user, and add the thread to the selected page will have to be written anyway. You will need them for enabling existing users to move some of their currently marked threads to their new page(s). For your questionnaire: I have 52 threads bookmarked.

To: John Busby who wrote (99)	11/23/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3372

John, I would like to see a feature added where you could save someone else's post into folders. As an example, I would like to put this post away and save it as a reference for the future. I had nothing to do with it's creation and never commented toward the author about it, so unless I comment on it, I cannot save it. Every once in a while I come across a gem like this while surfing around SI. And feel somewhat uncomfortable butting into a thread I'm not a regular participant in just so I can save a post. Or Am I missing something with regard to the features of SI? Message 12042643 Michael

To: John Busby who wrote (99)	11/23/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: dr.putty	Respond to of 3372

<<To the gallery: * How many SubjectMarks do you have? * Do you want to create multiple SubjectMarks pages? * Do you like "Priority/Non-Priority", "Main/Subcategories", or some other method?>> Hi John, I've got 74 SubjectMarks (thankfully, many are not active). Multiple pages would be great any of the ways you mention. Are stock alerts a possibility at all? How about being able to customize the Watchlist (portfolios) a little more, such as forming your own Comparable Analysis guidelines? Thanks.