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General brainstorming for Note-taking software
kfitting:
Just thought I'd throw out a suggestion for MyInfo again... just taking another look at it tonight and it's quite powerful. It's "tree pane" now offers customizable columns (text, date/time, pop-up list, etc) as well as default tags and comments columns, plus it's editor is quite functional. Play around... there are a few rough edges but this is very promising! (note: based on the TRichView component)
Kevin
urlwolf:
MyInfo looks nice.
It doesn't have a forum with a developer that responds to user queries fast, and/or a plugin system, which are two of the things that I now look for before I give new software a try.
Two other things that I'd love to have in an application like this:
tab completion
one key searches, with highlighting of all occurrences and one key to jump to next/previous
This is why I like vim.
urlwolf:
Tagging is a very interesting concept (seems well implemented in MyInfo). But, I wonder how fast and efficiently one can tag all notes. Ideally all should be done with keyboard shortcuts, otherwise tagging may be too much of a chore.
Which makes me think...
In a simple text file, everything is a tag! One can do a simple text search and avoid the pain of tagging implemented as a different concept.
Example, in my notes I have: IdeaGTD, ideaPost, ideaPodcast, etc. for ideas. tab completion makes it easy to tag things this way. If there's need for a non-text element, such as sound or an external file of some kind, a file:// url would do the trick.
Just thinking outloud...
urlwolf:
problem with the file:// idea in plain text is portability (something rjbull was worried about). Hmm. Not such a good idea.
Is there any program of those you tried that works with voice notes (i.e., one can attach a wav/mp3 file and the program would play it?
kfitting:
urlwolf: I was just playing around with MyInfo tags (I hadnt prior to my previous post!) and the Myinfo interface is an interesting one. You add a couple tags to one "document" and those tags are immediately able to be chose (drop-down) by other documents in that file. Once tags have been added, you mouse-over the tag and select one and the filter immediately shows documents with that tag. Like I said, interesting. Have to see how it works in practice.
I agree that tags need to be able to be assigned, but I slightly disagree. To bring order to a non-ordered system some amount of effort must be put forth! Order cant just happen (well, meaningful order anyway). But, I know what you mean. If it tags 20 mouse-clicks to add a tag, that's overkill.
MyInfo isnt perfect... but it does have an interesting way of handling some of the problems mentioned in this thread.
Kevin
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