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[Jendrik Seipp <jendrikseipp@xxxxxx>]

Hi,
sorry the response took so long...

Am 16.05.2011 12:40, schrieb AnaMesa:
> Hello,
>
> I΄ve started using this program couple of days ago, and find it very
> usefull and well thought out and done. So, I would like to complement a
> member΄s suggestions some posts ago, or even make new ones:
>
> ---------------------------Quote--------------------------------
>
> - I need a bit better way to manage the "excluded words" list.  I keep
> adding words, and I would like to be able to edit them as an
> alphabetized
> list so I can add extended forms (plurals, etc.)
>
> - Set up a synonyms list, where I would input a "canonical" word and its
> synonyms.  These synonyms would be lumped together under the canonical
> word in the word cloud, and the search function would return search
> results for all of the synonyms when one of them is entered.  For bonus
> points - this is probably tougher than the rest of it put together -
> allow for a multiple-word synonym.
>
> ------------------------------End Quote------------------------------
>
> I think the first suggestion could be implemented by using another prog,
> capable of sorting, and copy-pasting the ¨excluded words¨ list to this
> prog and re-copy-pasting back to the field of the list in preferences.
> Of course, it would be better to let RedNotebook do that by itself, it΄s
> just a workaround.
I think so too, Doing this in a separate program is the simplest way here.
> The second suggestion is maybe the most interesting: I too find the need
> to lump together words, not neccessarily synonyms, but let΄s say
> ¨groups¨, and the rule of the colection could be arbitrary. So these
> ¨group-words¨ should appear in the cloud, and maybe clicking on them
> could on first click open the colection as a ¨sub-cloud¨, and then
> either choosing the whole ¨sub-cloud¨ or specific items from it. That
> would mean an introduction of a double cloud hierarchy, searchable of
> course.
Well, this sounds like a nice idea, but I think not many people would 
understand the concept and be willing to define such hierarchies.
> Another missing feature (or one I could  not trace myself) is to be able
> to import a page or a whole journal to another journal. By this I mean
> to add the contents of the first journal to the corresponding dates
> (pages) of the second *and* the categories etc (annotations) of this
> day(s)/page(s). This would immensely useful, by adding for instance the
> contents of the first journal at the end of the corresponding page of
> the second, after a double seperator line.
This will be possible in future versions, when the importing code has 
been finalized.
> Another suggestion would be rather secondary but obligatory: Please when
> changing views, from *Edit* view to *Preview* view, keep the place of
> the Edit view in the page, when returning to it, ie when returning to
> Edit view from Preview, I should find myself in the same position in the
> text where I left, not in the beginning of the page. The cursor should
> be visible at the same position.
That's a very nice observation. I added it to the roadmap.
> Then, I woulf very much like to be able to copy and paste annotations of
> any kind to another page (date).
IMO copy-pasting with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V should be sufficient here. What 
do you guys think?
> Maybe I΄m asking too much, but these are my suggestions anyway.
>
> Oh, and please add some more keyboard shortcuts, for example a shortcut
> for ¨annotating¨,
Ctrl-N
>   then maybe a letter shortcut for ¨Adding¨ an item,
what "item"?
> ¨Deleting¨ it
delete an annotation with the Remove key
>   or ¨Changing the text¨,
Good idea.

Cheers,
Jendrik