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Multi-layered filing system

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Zophiel

H2G2 is great, there are lots of articles on lots of subjects.
In DNA's version of The Guide entries were all fairly short, and funny.

I would like to see longer articles having a condensed summary, like the abstract at the start of an academic paper. Hence the multi-layered filing system, so you search or browse and you find the top layer - the summary - then you can expand it by section, and then at a further level you have the links and referenced sites.

This maybe a little tricky.

Clearly the majority of entries aren't long enough for this to be worthwhile, but sometimes you do really feel like you're wading through a lot of material, perhaps unnecessarily.

regards, the other big Z


Multi-layered filing system

Post 2

Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit writing all kinds of nonsense
"Well, why do you not start creating abstracts? Use a link to the Edited entry and do not forget to give credit to the writers of the original.

Just some 6740 pages to do smiley - biggrin. If you by any chance have some time left, you could also abstract and sub index the normal entries, the Personal Spaces and while you are at it: the conversations? "


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