Add ability to add a Memory without leaving the page

[zaluzianskya]

Title:
Add ability to add a Memory without leaving the page

Area:
memories

Summary:
Adding an entry to Memories is complicated. It should be easier.

Description:
What I propose is, when you click on the heart button to add an entry to your Memories, a box could pop up on the page for you to select a title and the labels for the Memory. If your browser doesn't support this, the code can degrade gracefully by taking you to the Add Memory page that currently exists.

This would make it less of a hassle to add Memories, since right now you have to go to another page, add the Memory, and then it takes you to a page that lists a bunch of other options like "go back to the entry", "view all your memorable entries", etc. Too many clicks, in my opinion.

Poll #16836 Add ability to add a Memory without leaving the page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (60.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (34.9%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (4.7%)

Comments

[arethinn]

My brain has not the clear enough at the moment to know that I want to say "as is", but something like this sounds like a good idea to me.

[anaraine]

I don't use the memory function because it is so clunky, but this change might encourage me to poke at it again.

I was under the impression, however, that Memories was going to get a complete overhaul? (I don't know why that is a pervasive thought of mine - it might just be wishful thinking.)

[denise]

Yes, overhauling memories is something we still want to do, and I believe allen has some of the backend done, even, but like many of our other major projects, it wound up being way more complicated than we'd expected and we had to pause and do a lot of technical cleanup first. :)

[anaraine]

Awesome! I'm happy to hear it's something that's still being tinkered with - I don't mind waiting! I'm here for the long haul.

(But I also don't begrudge people who would like some kind of stop-gap measure in the meantime, so. This suggestion still gets a vague up-vote from me.)

[arethinn]

Is one of the things planned for the overhaul being able to add an entry to more than five categories at once, i.e., more like tagging?

[denise]

It's basically a ground-up redesign, so many things will be different, yeah.