On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:35:21 +1100, Simon Lilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > To get to the point, I'm wondering if I can make quite a large > suggestion for the future of OOo (2.5, 3.0 onward) for the incorporation > of another office suite-style application. My top three open-source > programs (as far as usage goes) are Firefox, OOo and KeyNote-- all of > which I use constantly on a daily basis. My problem stems from the fact > that whilst Firefox and OOo are all on Linux (which I'm planning on > switching full-time on to), KeyNote is only on Windows. [BTW, I'm > talking about the open-source program called KeyNote at > http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html , not the Apple presentation > software]. > Basically, the software is a three-paned, tabbed, tree-based notepad for > taking lots of notes that need to be organized in a very structural way; > something which word processors just can't do. For research (both as a > writer and as a student), I find it second-to-none.
+1 I would love to see some kind of organization component in OOo. Perhaps a combination of MS Binder, MS OneNote, and this KeyNote thing could be done. I have not used any of these apps, but I understand the concepts: MS Binder has a document that contains other office documents. In this document, you can categorize sort and organize your documents. MS OneNote allows hand-written notes if you have a tablet PC and it helps categorize and organize your notes allowing 'drag-n-drop' of selections of text from IE and it automatically puts the URL reference with the notes. All of the notes are indexed as well so you can search all your notes pretty easily, including the handwritten ones. It also provides a handy TODO list type thing. KeyNote is described above. So perhaps a new component "NoteKeeper" or something like that is a "Binder" like document that stores a collection of other documents and categorizes/organizes them with an index feature that indexes all of the contents of this "binder". A 'sticky note' template could be provided for writer that would not be 'page-based' per say but is just a storage location for information. The reference feature where you can drag text into OOo, dragging from say firefox with an "OOo Notes" extension, which then automatically adds the reference to bibliographic. Perhaps some kind of integration with something like sunbird could be worked so that it's not just OOo files either. You could then include TODO lists or calendars from say Mozilla sunbird (lightning) or links to e-mails from thunderbird, all with a nice search feature. A lot of the backend work is already done to implement something like this. It could be based off of Base (maybe?) which already includes embeded Writer docs as forms and reports, and then you'd need to change the UI (I'm working on my Silver Onion project which should make this easier silveronion.blogspot.com) to be more organization oriented. and some kind of addin would need to be done for integration with things like thunderbird/sunbird (lightning), possibly evolution, firefox/Mozilla/other browser add-ins. It could be really great. When doing this it'd be great to base stuff that we incorporate on other OSS products so that we can borrow code, possibly increasing the developer base that works on OOo components. I'm not suggesting that this will be a small project however. I'm also not suggesting that I have time to do this. I'm already spending more time than I should on the Silver Onion to help OOo and I wouldn't have the time necessary to research this. I am suggesting that I would love to see this as I've gotten so close to purchasing OneNote several times for it's note taking, searching, and researching features. > I don't believe software like this (maybe OneNote comes slightly close) > has been incorporated into Office software yet, and I think this is > OOo's chance to add a another program into the stable of what an office > suite is. And, from what very little I know about software development, > I believe most of the capabilities are already within OOo; they are just > not structured in this way. +1 I completely agree. See my description above. > Well, sorry for posting a long one and keep up the good work. Oh? was it long? It looks quite short compared to the long-winded e-mails I write. Cheers, Jacob PS: Are there any feature requests already in IssueZilla for something like this? Sounds like a good feature request candidate to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
