One part of my new site at mage.party will be a section for things to consume later. This will be important to me, as I will have a lot of reference materials come up from deconstructing artifacts; influences and important genre works will be added to the list so I can keep track of my own efforts to work through it.
So what does that look like? Well, I was thinking of listing them out on a page, maybe a custom content type, with its own taxonomies.
Name of work
Media type (novel, comic, movie, show, album, painting, etc)
Genre
Maybe just “tags”
Reference links
The reference links will be internal links to deconstruction reports that I publish, so by filling it out it also marks that item as “done”, and so can be filtered off the list.
A “Reminds me of…” field? To make a cloud of things that are related but might not be obvious. Like the way the “So…” song from an anime whose name I can’t remember reminds me of “Recessional” by Vienna Teng. To make a completely fuzzy human-connection graph-type thing.
Quick update: I plan on using this as a consumption list, with some simple voting mechanism on it. So I will add things that are related, as I deconstruct them (think, I watch Star Wars, and then add everything Star Wars related, so I can reference it later).
Then, if I ever want to seek inspiration, I can just see what folks are interested in discussing, based on voting.
So it is less a general use tool, and more of a cultural object rating system.
