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[makayabou <makayabou@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

First, thanks to everyone who has contributed to rednotebook, a very 
great tool.

I hadn't used it for some months, and just installed v1.4 .

I was impressed by the Changelog. It was obvious that there was 
something to do with the ambiugous distinction between tags and 
categorys. I'm sure that, in a manner,  merging is the best solution.

But I'm not really convinced that using categories without entries would 
be a good thing. One of the reasons is that categorie's cloud will be 
too much filled.

One of the good things with the v1.1 that we lost was that it was 
possible to see the tag's cloud.

In my daily use, i  also use a category that I call "style", which 
describes if the note is about a phone conversation, or an action 
report, a web searching, etc.

You see? To my mind, Categories are a way to classify notes together, like:

- Category 1: my theater workshops
  - entry 1: first workshop: so afraid!
  -entry 2: 2nd workshop: i already feel like a star!
  - Category 2: my movies:
    - entry 1: armageddon...

but also a way to identify common points between notes, not regarding 
the "subject's category" :

- Category 4: tags
   - entry 1: "geek action"
   - entry 2: "psychology"
   - entry 3: "funny thing"
   - ...
- Category  5: style
   - entry 1: phone conversation
   - entry 2: meeting
   - entry 3 : search on the web
...
I separated styles and tags to make easier the search for the 
appropriate tag/style each time I write a new note.This "form" (tags, 
style..) is specific to my use. It has to be adapted to each one's use.

My main interest is for a great searching tool, in order to avoid forget 
brilliant and fugitive ideas!

In That way of conceive the software, I would  just have to blacklist 
"tags" and "style" from categories search results and I could see a 
cloud representing all the "family of subjects" (my categories as a 
manner to "group" notes)  I use to write about.
But I could also (like in v1.1), look at the cloud representing the list 
of tags I put, and another cloud with the list of "styles" (or 
whatever), to see if some are under/over-represented.


I'm french and hope my english is understandable enough for you to see 
what I mean and react to my point of view.

I really like rednotebook and want it to be still better

cheers

makayabou

PS: Also, If one of you get mad because of my disintegrated english, I 
would really appreciate if you wanted to correct this letter!