Movies

I want to see my favourite movies in a structured way. Not in a list, because there is no single way of sorting them. I might want to see them sorted by director, by date or according to which actors played the major roles.

would be a start.

Julia Roberts was in other movies I enjoyed. Hugh Grant as well::

Then I notice something: three of these films were written by the same author: Richard Curtis. In future I'll watch out for his name and will be more likely to watch a movie by him. (I find myself asking the question who wrote the other films - maybe there's another "link" which will help me to target better films in the future.

Now I've entered three different types of information: actors, movie names and authors. It would be good to be able to see which is which. One way is to introduce the "aspect" "Which type". (I might think of a better name later, but let's use that for the time being.)

	So I add an aspect "Which type", and
	open a "column view" which should use the different values of "Which type" as its columns

That's not very pretty and doesn't help. Yet. But I still have to tell the items to which type they belong.

I can either

	create a new column (in the menu "New"), then click the item and drag it into the new column, (click with the left mouse key, then holding the key pressed, slide the mouse so the item moves into the required column) or
	right-click an item (e.g. Hugh Grant), select "Edit all fields" in the context menu, then enter "Actor" in the "Which type" field. A new column is automatically created and the item is moved into it.

I repeat this so there are columns for "Film" and "Author":

I could add another column for "director".

Another way of looking at this information about my favourite movies would be to divide them up according to their genre: comedy, drama, thriller science fiction, historical etc. To do this, I create a second aspect "Genre" and make a second column-view which uses this new aspect to determine which columns are shown. It's worth noting that Julia Roberts is neither a comedy nor a drama - she's not a film at all. It's sensible to use a filter in this case, so only items are shown which have "Film" entered as their "type".

Now I want to gather further information regarding these films. I define an aspect "URL" and enter the web-addresses of fan-clubs, distributors or websites specialising on that film or whatever. A useful address for movie fans is www.IMDB.com. They often have a web page for each film. So a link to such a page allows me to surf there with two clicks: one right-click for the context menu of an item, then a left-click on the URL.

I could continue to add aspects like "Release date", "My assessment", "Country of origin" etc.