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Enhancing the Functionality of the In-Game Notepad
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Cerulean Ice
Royal Amarr Reclamation
#1 - 2013-09-18 15:02:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Cerulean Ice
I use the in game notepad a lot, and I have a few ideas for improving the notepad functionality. I'd like to share these ideas Smile

Quality of Life - Note Folder Drag and Drop: Sorting notes into folders is a very useful aspect of the current notepad, but you can only move a note by dragging it onto the actual folder name itself. You cannot drag a note onto other notes in the same folder to move them. Being able to drag notes to less specific spots on the screen would make sorting them much easier, and then they would also match the new Drone UI (which is made of win on so many levels).

Quality of Life - Note Folder for Unsorted Notes: A folder that only contains notes that are not already in another folder would help a lot with adding new notes. Instead of having to search through the All Notes part, you would only have to look at the unsorted notes.

Enhanced Functionality - Note Exporting/Importing: Exporting notes into text (specifically .txt format) files for easy access in out-of-game text editors would be very useful. Importing text files into notes would also be very useful. This would make notes more like fittings, in that regard.

Enhanced Functionality - Note Linking/Sharing: A way to share notes with others, such as being able to link them into a conversation window, would be very useful. It could be handled by dragging a note to a chat window, eve mail, or any other place where text with links can be placed, to create a note link. This link would open the note in a new window, just like when you click a linked ship fitting, and give you the option to save it to your own notes.

Edit 1:
Enhanced Functionality - Fixed Width Font: Fixed width fonts are an important part of a lot of wavy-hand internet science (aka coding). It makes some layouts easier to look at, allows for creative use of underscores and vertical lines, and a host of other things.

Enhanced Functionality - Table Notes: A way to quickly create tables, or simple spreadsheets, within the note system (or as a separate system) would help alleviate the need for outside resources, such as google docs or office suites. The same quick sharing (see above) would make these very handy tools for spreading information between players.

Cerulean Ice, Professor, E-UNI
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#2 - 2013-09-18 15:11:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
Yes all of this above! You Sir, get a +1 from me.

EDIT: Also the ability to add particular notes\Note Folders as an Icon on the Neocom? Thoughts?

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Cerulean Ice
Royal Amarr Reclamation
#3 - 2013-09-20 05:17:32 UTC
I'm not sure how useful adding note folders to the neocom would be. Even with the current setup it's fairly easy to find a note that you've sorted into a folder. It would eat up valuable neocom space. If you have a large enough screen to support extra buttons, you probably have enough space to make the note window bigger, thus seeing more notes/folders at a time.

How would you use that function? What would make it useful?

Cerulean Ice, Professor, E-UNI
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#4 - 2013-09-20 07:40:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
Cerulean Ice wrote:
I'm not sure how useful adding note folders to the neocom would be. Even with the current setup it's fairly easy to find a note that you've sorted into a folder. It would eat up valuable neocom space. If you have a large enough screen to support extra buttons, you probably have enough space to make the note window bigger, thus seeing more notes/folders at a time.

How would you use that function? What would make it useful?


Simply quicker access to commonly used notes. Say you have a note on Damage Types you'd have to open Notes, find the Note and read it in a window. With the addition of adding individual notes to the Neocom you remove the need to open All Notes and can have quicker access to that particular note. I would go so afar as to say it could have it's own dimensions that are remembered and position.

Was just a thought for improving the idea of note and access a bit further and as the icon for notes is already there the text on hover over could display the note name.

EDIT:

Example: You're docked in station and fitting for a mission. You have Fitting screen open, Items Hanger\Inventory and Fleet window, Corp, Local Chat, Intel Channels. Now you have to open up Notes and find the note you want to check resists to fit and ammo type OR you click that icon on the Neocom titled "Mission Stuff" and it opens in a nested window. Less clutter and easier viewing.

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Insidiousbag
Intentionally Dense
United Federation of Conifers
#5 - 2013-09-20 12:30:15 UTC
Sounds like a good plan. Could also make notes searchable for finding something specific within the note itself.
Alphea Abbra
Project Promethion
#6 - 2013-09-20 12:47:56 UTC
Cerulean Ice wrote:
Enhanced Functionality - Note Exporting/Importing: Exporting notes into text (specifically .txt format) files for easy access in out-of-game text editors would be very useful. Importing text files into notes would also be very useful. This would make notes more like fittings, in that regard..
Oh yes please, oh god yes!
Also +1 for the rest, but this would be SO AWESOME.
Paxte Eriker
EVE University
Ivy League
#7 - 2013-09-20 13:14:07 UTC
+1 for all of this but also there needs to be an option to use a fixed width font so that I can have all my tables line up properly.
Cerulean Ice
Royal Amarr Reclamation
#8 - 2013-09-27 13:23:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Cerulean Ice
Now there's a thought. A table tool built into the note system! Let's really get our spreadsheets in space working for us. Of course, a lot of people already use google docs for spreadsheet work, so, on top of adding tables to our notes, an updated in-game browser that can properly handle google docs would be awesome.

Ideas added into the original post :3

Cerulean Ice, Professor, E-UNI
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#9 - 2013-09-27 14:24:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
Wow a whole page of positives (well it would've been if this post had gone to Page 2 Lol)...never thought I'd see the day lol.

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Jasmine Assasin
Doomheim
#10 - 2013-09-27 14:39:11 UTC


First of all, +1 to the OP


Paxte Eriker wrote:
+1 for all of this but also there needs to be an option to use a fixed width font so that I can have all my tables line up properly.


This, I have a nearly 4,000 character note just for DED complexes, in a kind of column and row table, however it really screws with my OCD because I can never quite make everything line up. Give us some extra formatting options if you're are messing around in there at some point in the future.