A new concept: Collections of Projects

One consequence of allowing users to share entire projects, rather than just individual items on pages, was that we needed a good way to present these shared projects to the rest of the team. The concept we came up with is that of "Collections", which are basically like super-folders of projects.

Kerika comes 3 built-in (Work, School and Play), and you can of course create your own. When someone shares a project with you, Kerika creates a Collection on your computer that matches the sender's Collection. The next time that person shares another project with you, using the same Collection, this new project automatically gets filed for you within your "remote copy" of the sender's Collection. This makes it easy for you to stay in synch with other people who are adding you to their projects.

(A little trivia: when we were implementing this new concept, we originally referred to each Collection as a Home, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get used to referring to "mulitple Homes" which just seemed like an oxymoron to me. So we switched to the term Collections but kept the old icon of a little house/home.)