{"id":918,"date":"2004-11-08T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T02:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=918"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:10:50","slug":"delicious-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/08\/delicious-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nComments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious-monster.com\/\">Delicious Library<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/apps\/delicious-library.ars\">John Siracusa<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaffeinated.org\/archives\/2004\/11\/09\/deliciouslibrary\">Christopher Clark<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/2004\/11\/08\/delicious_library_thoughts.php\">Erik Barzeski<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earthlingsoft.net\/ssp\/blog\/2004\/11\/delicious_library\">Sven-S. Porst<\/a><\/li>\n\n    <li>\nMe:\n    \n    <ul>\n\t<li>It looks great, except for the wood.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>iSight and DV-cam barcode scanning: sounds cool, but I don&rsquo;t have the hardware.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>In investigating how to get my existing data into it, I found that it&rsquo;s not scriptable and there&rsquo;s no documentation about the supported import formats (or anything else, for that matter, aside from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious-monster.com\/help.php\">FAQ<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\t<li>The Details view doesn&rsquo;t auto-complete like Address Book.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>It&rsquo;s full of links to Amazon, but unfortunately can&rsquo;t log in and import my purchase history.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Not all the fields are searchable.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>It doesn&rsquo;t remember my borrowers list between sessions. The borrowers are sorted by first name, rather than last name, and they don&rsquo;t really scale up: the only way to find a particular borrower is to scroll through the list.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a way to batch-assign metadata (such as location or owner), as in iTunes.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>I think it&rsquo;s missing a field for My Category. I categorize items my own way, and I don&rsquo;t want to use the Genre field for this, as it will get wiped out if I reload the data from Amazon. In fact, I think it needs support for labels and a bunch of custom fields.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Overall reaction: nice, but I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d use it for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments on Delicious Library: John Siracusa Christopher Clark Erik Barzeski Sven-S. Porst Me: It looks great, except for the wood. iSight and DV-cam barcode scanning: sounds cool, but I don&rsquo;t have the hardware. In investigating how to get my existing data into it, I found that it&rsquo;s not scriptable and there&rsquo;s no documentation about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-27T16:10:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"3e3cc394-8bb1-4536-a8bb-1558391b954f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-27T16:10:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APjzDlIuxRTaouxVYORuVTw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1593,30,32],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-delicious-library","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45958,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/45958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}