Alerts should have comments/tags

[johnhawkinson]

When you start subscribing to alerts for enough different cases, sometimes you forget why you did. "What was this case from 6 months ago? Why is it significant? Why did I care back then?"

It would be useful to have a feature to allow an alert subscriber to write a short summary of the case to be included in each alert. ("My mom's co-worker's criminal case.")

(Of course, there is also something to be said for editorially-reviewed case summaries in CL/RECAP in general, &c. )

[mlissner]

Interesting. We do that for search alerts, but don't for dockets alerts. I do prefer the simplicity of the docket alerts, but I see the value. They're probably a good way to do this. A competitive analysis would be helpful.

[mlissner]

A thought here. We do have favorites for dockets and when you create one, you can add a note about that docket. Sort of seems like we could include that in the alert that we send and it'd help people. It'd be a heck of a hidden feature, but kind of a neat one when people found it. Hm.

[mlissner]

Got another request for this, and I've felt the pain too. We should do it. When we do, we can tweak all alert emails to either say:

Your Note: Blah, blah, whatever Your Tags: civil, criminal, whatever

Or:

Your Note and Tags: You have not added a notes or tags to this alert. [Learn more]

Or:

Your Note: Blah, blah Your Tags: No tags yet [Learn More]

Or:

Your Note: You have not added notes to this case [Learn More] Your Tags: civil, criminal, whatever

Something like that. Maybe that'd finally get the tagging and noting features launched a bit more. The [Learn More] links could go to simple help pages, and:

• [ ] Our help pages should be updated to note that tags and comments are sent in email alerts