Comments on: CoComment: doing more with less

By: elpollo

elpollo — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:59:37 +0000

I was using co.mments before, but decided to give cocomment a try. I seem to like it better, the interface is easier to use, and tracking comments is displayed in a very easy manner.
I also like their group feature, have joined a few of them.
My two cents.

By: christophe

christophe — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:36:25 +0000

Although tracking might be seen as similar between the two services, there are some major differences like:
– Identifying your own comments
– Sharing a conversation to invite someone to participate or just read
– tagging your comments so it is easier to find a conversation (or to track only some specific tags)

And, yes, with our extension, no need to manually ask to track a conversation: as soon as you comment, you track it.

By: John B

John B — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:51:08 +0000

I ended up going with http://co.mments.com/, which seems to do about the same thing as CoComment but with (IMHO) a cleaner interface. I’m using the bookmarklet in Safari, so there is still that manual step I’ll need to remember to add into my workflow, but regardless this looks to be the tool that finally makes me less of a flake in online conversations :)

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:36:04 +0000

Thanks, Christophe. I’ll have to explore some of these.

I may have been in a clean-out mode… having just started on two new projects that suddenly turned into three, I dug out of a month’s worth of procrastination on my real-world desktop.

The biggest benefit is that CoComment knows where I’ve been, which I often don’t.

By: christophe

christophe — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:10:43 +0000

Hi,

Maybe a few tricks can help you to organize your conversations with coComment:
– You can tag your comments to directly access relevant conversations: tags can be entered when you comment, or later on from your conversation page (edit tags at the bottom of your comments). You can then view your conversation by tag on coComment web site (your tag list is available on the right side bar on your conversations page), or with RSS feeds.
– An option is to use coComment groups. You can create groups (public, public restricted, or private), to organize your conversations (and also share it with others).

Like this, no need to clean your conversation page. It can become very big, and, anyway, it is by default sorted by last comment date, so only the last active will be displayed on the first page of your conversations.

To easily browse your conversations, you can also use the browser side bar and directly see the last updated (including by tag), and see the web site where the conversations is. The browser side bar is accessible after you install the browser extension.