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Originally created by @tdslot on GitHub (Feb 20, 2019).
Type of books
Would be very useful if we have possibility to choose type of books. I mean when we create book could be:
Benefits
With different type of books you can expand BookStackApp work as knowledge base and have mo flexible organized content.
@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2019):
Thanks for the suggestion @tdslot.
To be honest, I like the simplistic system we have now. Having different types of books weakens what a book is and complicates the structure of content in addition to adding additionally implementation and maintenance work.
It would be good to expand on this to explain how the book types would "expand BookStackApp work as knowledge base". I get that it would provide more options to the user but what do these options enable that is currently not possible for BookStack users?
@tdslot commented on GitHub (Mar 11, 2019):
I can understand you that you want keep things simple. But we lag for example this thins I suggested. Would be nice If those books can be created.
@noseshimself commented on GitHub (Mar 17, 2019):
Maybe not as separate types of books but offering page templates from a template library. And not having "simple" or "complex" books but permitting at least sub-chapters of a configurable (? -- or endless) depth.
I just tried out Bookstack to see if we could move our documentation over from the current collection of tools but only having chapters and pages will not work for us.
@cnfw commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2019):
I've always liked the idea of having a colour assigned to a book. This wouldn't complicate the current structure, but would allow for at-a-glance viewing of all books of a particular colour, which you can map internally to a type if you like. Blue books for knowledge, green books for notes, yellow books for logs etc
However I would agree that adding book types or categories would add complexity to the structure.
It would be possible in this case to tag a book with however you wish to categorise it. Cover images could also be used in some way to categorise a book.
@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 13, 2021):
I'm going to go ahead and close this off as out of scope since I can't see implementing this any time soon. The core features actually desired are either likely covered by other existing issues or have been previously requested.