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I PIMLite Round 4 Questions

New Questions

Q25
Do you need to run PIMLite under System 6?

Q26
Do you want PIMLite to be controllable by AppleScript (so you can automate tasks) and AppleEvents (so you can use AV Mac commands to drive PIMLite)?

Q27
Do you need value tags (ie: containing date/time or numbers) to also contain other tags, ie: being at the top of a hierarchy? Remember that a text tag can have a date or time as part of its name. The metaphor I'm using is that a tag either contains a date/time (varying per note) OR a number (varying per note) OR a list of other tags.

Q28
Do you want alarms on date/time tags? If so would you desperately need the alarms to work even when not using PIMLite?

Q29
Do you like the Undo/Redo model allowing multiple Undo's, or would you prefer just a single Undo command that only allows one action to be Undone.

Q30
Do you like the Insert… and Save As… options on the File menu or would you prefer additional Import and Export commands?

Q31
Should the Insert… menu item (assuming you like it) be on its own or following Open… (with the chance of confusing the two)?

Q32
Would you like a Zoom facility to be able to edit at smaller/larger sizes?

Q33
Do you prefer a submenu of styles (as shown in "PICT - Style menu") or would you prefer the menu to have an "Other styles…" option leading to a dialog, as shown in "PICT - Other styles dialog"?

Q34
Would you like multiple columns? (Caveat: I can currently only implement them for an entire WP document or Note, not for just a portion of a document.)

Q35
Do you like the use of Command-N for a New Note (see "PICT - List menu") or would you prefer Command-N used for New File and Shift-Command-N as the equivalent for New Note?

Q36
Do you prefer the Format menu wording "Left Justify", "Full Justify" and "Right Justify" or would you like "Left align", "Justify" and "Right align"?

Q37
Would you like a variation of the Tags window that was vertical, with the two lists stacked one above the other, so it would fit neatly beside the List window on a smaller screen.

Q38
Would you like to display Tags on the List window, alongside the Titles?

Q39
Would you like to display Notes (or part of them) on the List window, alongside the Titles, and possibly edit them on the List?

Q40
Do you like the menu titles? Would you prefer the List menu being called Notes?

Q41
When indexing notes, would you like the Cross-indexing and Auto-matching of words and phrases to be "fuzzy", using smarter matching rules like matching the phonetics (sounds like) of words? Would you also like this to apply to the Tag Selection, so very similar tags are not created but end up the as the same tag?

Q42
Would you like something like the ThoughtPattern "Autotabbing" feature, where a number of tags would be automatically added to any new notes, regardless of any matching procedure?

Q43
Would you like a Preferences option so you only ever had one Note window open (along with the List and Tags) and every time you double-click a title in the List window, the new note is displayed in the same window as the last one?

 

Old Questions still Relevant

These are the remaining few questions from HI betas 2 and 3 that have some relevance. All the other questions have been conclusively answered or are no longer relevant due to changes in the interface.

Q18 Would you like to display tags by their frequency, eg: most frequently encountered word (phrases) down to least frequent.

Q19
Would you like to be able to sort the notes in the list by the number of tags applied to them, eg: so you can see the most heavily cross-referenced items first.

Q21
I will be changing the nature of Tags so they can contain values - Value Tags will be applied to a number of notes (eg: Date Modified) but contain a different value for each note. What types of values would you like to attach to notes - I have plans for Date/Times, Integers and Real numbers? (This would let you attach Expense tags to diaries etc. and add up the totals for a range of notes).

Q23
Does anyone see the need to be able to search tags and/or titles by the trailing characters (eg: ending in "programmer")?

Q24
Would you like the ability to build full word-indexes of the Notes fields? (Note: I'm planning to do this by automatic creation of tags)

 

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