I posted some suggestions concerning the 'page metadata management' use case for Databases before - one of my favourite use cases of Databases as you will have guessed by now.
Just to give you an idea: a direct interaction with page metadata through Databases (eg. changing status, or adding a label) saves me more than 15 seconds per interaction.
Have you really never thought how time absorbing it is to just change a label, or a title, or a status? Databases provides you with the 2 seconds interaction.
But in fact it saves much more time than the 15 seconds per interaction:
- without the database I first need to search for and find the page - add at least 10 seconds
- without the database I do not have the overview of metadata, and chances are big I even would not manage and update the metadata at all, which ends up in heaps of lost time when confronted with false metadata - add an eternity.
So, why not explore more direct page metadata interaction opportunities with Databases:
- why not directly change page owners in the database?
- why not directly change page titles?
- why not directly type into excerpts in pages?
And provide even more field types that extract information from pages
- list all incompleted tasks on that page
- show child pages or parent page (or breadcrumbs)
- generate all kind of behaviours now in macro's
...
And why not add a button in fields, that in fact stand for Automation triggers for the related page? Information management at rocket speed.
A real Space Mission Control Center!
