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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
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on: November 20, 2008, 04:59:19 AM
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The problem with that is I don't have much space for paper and I don't keep them organized. You should see how many mini-notebooks I have with pages full of text in them that I ended up never revisiting again.
There's also the case of a lack of central place to store them so I'm always hitting myself on the head for throwing that 500 page paper away.
Index cards would be worse. They're small, easy to misplace and they're addictively disposable by nature. Not exactly the type of set up for something pending.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
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on: November 20, 2008, 04:27:57 AM
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Well, a proper systray program is often designed with speed, snappiness and direct to the point interface in mind. Some might call it minimalistic and straight to the point although I've seen exceptions.
A good example of these are Adobe Air apps. Many can eat memory, are not portable but the user interface can be less busier than an actual program tweak to do more advanced stuff. This is something where MLO (when I've tried it before in the past) doesn't achieve, interface aside.
That isn't to say such a full program can't be used but I really think it's better that the program only contains a few core features to manage to do lists of these sort and nothing else. The more content it allows in and the more this program strives to be a full to do list, the longer it takes to separate these lists with ones that you don't need repeated and even though it's still possible to navigate through it, eventually things might bog down to the point that you're much faster picking up an index card, writing several similar copies of the list on it and using it when you need to.
It really should be for lists that you find you need rewriting often enough but not often enough that you couldn't just abuse the copy-paste mechanism and have them structured in such a way that doesn't require an overt digging of all the other information that you have as to provide the snappiness in accessing several of these lists because without that snappiness, you could just simply write it down on Notepad and copy paste it and it would be like spending around the same time digging through a much more advanced notetaker/to do list program.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
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on: November 19, 2008, 04:14:05 PM
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Thanks. Glad to know there are still basic programs out there that haven't been made in bunches.
Nah, IQ and Sciral Consistency won't work for reasons that they aren't quite systray programs. (Not that they couldn't be minimized in the systray.)
Not only that but these kinds of tweak can be done more systray friendly using Evernote 2's template system, a Google Chrome app Joe's Goals and OneNote's template system. Even a tag based notetaker or MDI notepad would work.
It's not so much that these functionalities can't be replicated elsewhere. I would even think that The Form Letter or the recent Just to do it program that's in one of the recent topics in DC would eventually evolve to something like that.
It's just as you said, there's no specific program that comes to mind.
It's all tweaks and that defeats the speed by which to organize and manage these lists which is the key benefit that an app like this would have.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
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on: November 19, 2008, 07:57:32 AM
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;D This is the former: do you want a todo list of items that you can easily reproduce & make variation on? This is the latter: do you want a todo list hat you can simply reuse when it done - start over - to-do again? I would probably want some of these things though they aren't necessary: 1) Ability to organize the same sets of to do lists together on a section so that you would know which keyword you are searching on. Ex. Folder = These sets of to do list a. Name of keyword 1 b. Name of keyword 2 c. Name of keyword 3 2) Ability to save the state of the to do list. 3) Online sync 4) Export/Import to <favorite program> 5) Ability to set priorities, goals, labels, tags, etc. (Basically a portable Remember the Milk or Toodledo but that's like what all mini-to do lists should strive for anyway) 6) FARR/Launchy/Slickrun/RocketDock integration 7) Portable 8) Hotkeys/Keyboard-only compatible 9) Large Colorful icons/Multiple Skins/Pretty Graphical User Interface
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
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on: November 19, 2008, 06:25:54 AM
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The core idea is basically a to do list program that you can keep repeating without a pre-defined scheduled time.
Ex.
Say I have a set of search engines for just doing a search on a specific video.
Now this could possibley be what I have on a notetaking tool of any kind.
=Metacafe =Youtube =Oxytube =Revver =Viddler =Google
I could even have this as a browser session for easier usage. Problem is, I might lose track of which item I have searched for already. This is unlikely but I could see it happening as I search for more key words.
So I set up a to do list/check list to do this. Unfortunately now I have to keep rewriting the to do list. Of course, I could just copy paste these items but I thought it would be easier to manage if a program specifically sets out so you can repeat this template over and over again. I'd settle for OneNote's templates but I find inserting a template as pretty much at length with just copy pasting/rewriting the to do list all over again.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?
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on: October 22, 2008, 02:16:55 AM
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Actually Pierre talked about having a grid interdependent "layout memory". Eg : One grid would have the html pane at the bottom, the other one wouldn't have one, the other one would have it on the right, etc. The layout will also become even more flexible with what Pierre calls Ecco-like combo views, etc. I don't know when that will be available though. Thanks. I'll wait until SQLNotes has this to try it again.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Rats! MS Auto Updates Got Me Again!
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on: October 22, 2008, 02:13:18 AM
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I prefer to rely on patches from the source. I figure MS knows which patches are meant for the public. I've seen too many users who feel they have to have EVERY patch when certain ones are designed to fix a specific issue which is not affecting their machines.
Not sure if Autopatcher does this. Actually from what little I notice of the patches, usually Autopatcher even goes a step further and make sure there's a safe version of Autopatcher and a recent version. They even revert back to warn users where as MS is like Linux updating where unless you are using the right distro, any update can screw you up with no warning if you just click yes.
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DonationCoder.com Software / DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Note
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on: October 21, 2008, 11:29:52 AM
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Awesome potential for a simple app. I can't believe how people have forgotten the horridness of sticky notes and why we tolerate them in the real world only because we can't get something looking like something else. 
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?
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on: October 21, 2008, 07:37:09 AM
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I think this is more filtering but I'm just more comfortable being able to create a column of sorts of this in the chance that I mess up my column orders and just want my default order back. I dont follow the last sentence there ? Oh, it's just that I'm under the impression that columns are usually for sorting alphabetically, by date and all other static stuff and I usually am not organized. I just randomly order things and hope that when I need to re-organize something, I can hopefully just drag and drop it which makes me fear the column. by grid "submenu" - I guess you mean the list of grids shown as tabs on the side .. Oh no, I meant this... [attachimg=#] See? There's a grid option and then there's a grids menu. I've followed Armando's example and created a button which shows a drop down list of your grids in alphabetical order - now have this placed on top. I find it less confusing then the tabs on the left - my main problem with them is they dont show all grids & it can get very confusing Thanks. I really wasn't looking for this but on hindsight, I much prefer it this way too.
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