hey @Josiah

So, after looking at patch-gatherings last night, I wrote up what I think would be a good set of messages for a little bookmark system.

this looks really good!

archive and favourite are basically just "first-class tags" here, but would allow the interface to have standard form of organization.

i think it's great that you named this. i don't think we want "first-class tags". if we provide only normal tags, then different interfaces can choose their own standard form of organization. we can index the tags in flume so that all lookups are fast, regardless of how they organize.

Would [private/public bookmarks] be as simple as using the same messages but deciding whether to send them as private messages or public messages?

as far as i know, yes!

this is a random idea, what if instead of a new bookmark message type, we re-used the about message type?

{
  type: 'about',
  about: '%...',
  name: 'that one time',
  description: 'why this is important',
  tags: [#archive, #favoruite]
}

would that work?