These are just a few software apps I've been using recently with some concepts I like and would like to share. Some of this is potentially very distant and beyond the current scope of Lively. But these are some things what I would like to personally work toward in Lively.
1. DrawIt (http://www.bohemiancoding.com/?DrawIt#Compose) DrawIt is an exquisite, novel drawing application which I recently purchased. The app can occasionally be cumbersome but its more usable once you get used to it. The shape/layer navigator is pretty cool but even better is how every sort of element attribute is accumulated by drag and drop on the right - instead of having too many palettes and inspectors. 2. Bento (http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/) Bento is a personal database and organizer. I wish the Mac Finder worked more like Bento. My favorite feature of Bento is the ratings field. I wish that I could attach a rating to any object of my filesystem as an attribute or to any element in a Lively world. Beats filing. Ratings and tagging. 3. iWork Numbers (http://www.apple.com/iwork/numbers/) My favorite Numbers feature is that spreadsheet tables can be spread out all over a sheet. Before Numbers was released I had imagined spreadsheets as opening a new window from a folder like in the Mac Finder. Tying this in to the concept of subworld is pretty interesting to me - where each subworld could return a calculated value. 4. Web Pages I don't want to ignore vertical scrolling like web documents are able to scroll. One of my initial goals with Lively is to also enable a document feel using vertical scrolling. I realize that in the future Lively could support a zoomable UI but I want to do this anyway. I want to explore a traditional web document feel in Lively and scroll wheel support be nice to have as well. Philip
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