1 files changed, 33 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/documents/DocumentTypes.ts b/src/client/documents/DocumentTypes.ts
index 170d54e96..ab32d7301 100644
--- a/src/client/documents/DocumentTypes.ts
+++ b/src/client/documents/DocumentTypes.ts
@@ -1,30 +1,36 @@
 export enum DocumentType {
     NONE = "none",
-    TEXT = "text",
-    HIST = "histogram",
-    IMG = "image",
-    WEB = "web",
-    COL = "collection",
-    KVP = "kvp",
-    VID = "video",
-    AUDIO = "audio",
-    PDF = "pdf",
-    IMPORT = "import",
-    LINK = "link",
-    LINKDOC = "linkdoc",
-    BUTTON = "button",
-    SLIDER = "slider",
-    EXTENSION = "extension",
-    YOUTUBE = "youtube",
-    WEBCAM = "webcam",
-    FONTICON = "fonticonbox",
-    PRES = "presentation",
-    PRESELEMENT = "preselement",
-    QUERY = "search",
-    COLOR = "color",
-    DOCULINK = "doculink",
-    PDFANNO = "pdfanno",
-    INK = "ink",
-    DOCUMENT = "document",
-    SCRIPT = "script"
+
+    // core data types
+    RTF = "rtf",      // rich text
+    IMG = "image",      // image box
+    WEB = "web",        // web page or html clipping
+    COL = "collection", // collection
+    KVP = "kvp",        // key value pane
+    VID = "video",      // video
+    AUDIO = "audio",    // audio
+    PDF = "pdf",        // pdf
+    INK = "ink",        // ink stroke
+    SCREENSHOT = "screenshot",  // view of a desktop application
+    FONTICON = "fonticonbox",   // font icon
+    QUERY = "query",            // search query
+    LABEL = "label",            // simple text label
+    WEBCAM = "webcam",          // webcam
+    PDFANNO = "pdfanno",        // pdf text selection (could be just a collection?)
+    DATE = "date",              // calendar view of a date
+    SCRIPTING = "script",       // script editor
+
+    // special purpose wrappers that either take no data or are compositions of lower level types
+    LINK = "link",              // link  (view of a document that acts as a link)
+    LINKANCHOR = "linkanchor",  // blue dot link anchor  (view of a link document's anchor)
+    IMPORT = "import",          // directory import box  (file system directory)
+    SLIDER = "slider",          // number slider  (view of a number)
+    PRES = "presentation",      // presentation   (view of a collection) --- shouldn't this be a view type?  technically requires a special view in which documents must have their aliasOf fields filled in
+    PRESELEMENT = "preselement",// presentation item (view of a document in a collection)
+    COLOR = "color",            // color picker (view of a color picker for a color string)
+    YOUTUBE = "youtube",        // youtube directory (view of you tube search results)
+    DOCHOLDER = "docholder",    // nested document (view of a document)
+
+    LINKDB = "linkdb",          // database of links  ??? why do we have this
+    RECOMMENDATION = "recommendation", // view of a recommendation
 }
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