Patch stories

[Jaymassena]

When Larissa and I are out on date night and using patchr, we might hit three or four places. We post messages to patches where we eat, see a movie, do some shopping, etc. What is missing is a way to say “Jay and Larissa’s Date Night” and pull all those moments together. Another example is a group of eight of us that went to Bainbridge for our annual holiday dinner. We had group moments at: limo to the ferry, toast at the ferry terminal bar, great sunset on the ferry ride, stopping for a wine tasting, shopping at the candy store, dinner at Hitchcocks, ferry ride home, limo back home.

Scenarios: Larissa and I are out for a night on the town. As we go, we use patches to capture the best moments. Later we can browse and share those moments gathered together into a single patch story.

Design: In the end, a story could be as simple as all the messages to patches by the story members over a period of time. When a message is posted to patch, there is an easy way to control whether the patch or message is part of a particular story. A story could either be a new entity schema or could be a type of patch.

[Jaymassena]

Another possibility is that a single patch is linked to multiple locations and those locations have meaning to the patch members. The locations are explicit rather than ambient.