Highlight some important items in the stream
It is likely that the stream will thicken in the coming months. Even as it is now, it could be very useful to find a way of highlighting some items that could get lost in a heavy stream.
I'm thinking in particular of
- new comments
- new messages
- new citations
- edited comments or citations (we don't have these yet)
- edited messages (we do have these, and it's a great feature, but when you edit a message, there is a risk that nobody will know you did)
- new cross-relations
I am probably forgetting other types of "interesting" items. If an idea (position, issue or argument) gets lost in the heavy stream, there is still a good chance that you'll find it later, either in the map itself or in the context view. But a missed comment or citation may be both more important (from the collaboration viewpoint), and harder to retrieve later on.
Maybe we could have two streams?
- the "content-stream", with issues, positions, arguments, and
- the "meta-stream" (?), with comments, messages, citations, cross-relations, etc.
A nice feature in the "classic view" was the highlighting of the new ideas in the last day/week/month. If we had a similar feature in the context view, we probably wouldn't need the "content-stream" and the remaining stream would only include the "meta-stream"??