Considering a slight improvement in process

[kippesp]

Boyd has talked with Carolyn about a method that he thought would 
help him move through the posts more quickly.

I won't summarize his suggestion for fear of confusing two possible 
methods.  But I thought I could use his idea in another way.

Assume that you're at the start of a new Yahoo thread/discussion 
such that the upper right area of our Catalog tool lists 
several "related" Yahoo threads.  You tick off 2 or 3 categories and 
submit them.  As you move through the discussion thread, the 
categories you picked on the first one are lifted to the top of the 
category list panel.  These categories won't be checked unless the 
particular post you are viewing has them assigned.  But these 
categories are rearranged so that you don't need to scroll through 
to find them again.

If this is confusing, just think of it as a sorting change.  The 
categories of the discussion's first post are sorted to the top of 
the category list.  No other activity is being done--strictly a 
display change.

The other idea I've had would be to see if this could be made into a 
java application.  I was thinking that by doing so, the category 
list wouldn't need to be reloaded each time.  I think that panel is 
around 30K and probably is larger than most posts.  I'm not a Java 
programmer, so that would give me a chance to figure something new 
out.