Auto-completion is a feature that I find useful in a number of applications.
I suspect users would find that to be the case for topic map authoring and navigation software.
One article to look at is: Auto Complete with Redis.
Which was cited by: Announcing Soulmate, A Redis-Backed Service For Fast Autocompleting
The second item being an application complete with an interface.
From the Soulmate announcement:
Inspired by Auto Complete with Redis, Soulmate uses sorted sets to build an index of partially completed words and the corresponding top matching items, and provides a simple sinatra app to query them.
Here’s a quick overview of what the initial version of Soulmate supports:
- Provide suggestions for multiple types of items in a single query (at SeatGeek we’re autocompleting for performers, events, and venues)
- Results are ordered by a user-specified score
- Arbitrary metadata for each item (at SeatGeek we’re storing both a url and a subtitle)
I rather like the idea of arbitrary metadata.
Could be a utility that presents snippets to paste into a topic map?