Notes app

This is a msg to Morphic experts:
I want to create a notes app - an application that keeps my notes and
organizes them by keywords, and some other organizing ideas.
First I'd like to create a handy note-taker. Do you have a suggestion on
which text morph(s) to look at as a model? There are dozens of them.

thanks,
brad

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On 15-May-07, at 5:51 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> This is a msg to Morphic experts:
> I want to create a notes app - an application that keeps my notes and
> organizes them by keywords, and some other organizing ideas.

Probably worth taking a look at the PDA morph Dan I wrote some years  
ago.


tim
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tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> On 15-May-07, at 5:51 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> This is a msg to Morphic experts:
>> I want to create a notes app - an application that keeps my notes and
>> organizes them by keywords, and some other organizing ideas.
>
> Probably worth taking a look at the PDA morph Dan I wrote some years ago.
Hey, thanks Tim. It even has comments!

b

If you find that interesting, you should also check out the Faure  
interface over the basic PDA model there:
http://www.squeaksource.com/Faure.html

On May 15, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:

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El 5/15/07 9:51 PM, "Brad Fuller" <[hidden email]> escribió:

> This is a msg to Morphic experts:
> I want to create a notes app - an application that keeps my notes and
> organizes them by keywords, and some other organizing ideas.
> First I'd like to create a handy note-taker. Do you have a suggestion on
> which text morph(s) to look at as a model? There are dozens of them.
>
> thanks,
> brad

Look at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3895
If like the idea, I have some more recent.
Anyway I should do a FunSqueak3.10 version and use it as "help" system.
Edgar

Brian Rice wrote:
> If you find that interesting, you should also check out the Faure
> interface over the basic PDA model there:
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Faure.html
I don't understand what Faure is. Can you explain briefly? Is it a
collection of tools to create applications that would eventually be used
on a resource constrained device?  (I read the notes on squeaksource,
but I'm still don't understand.)

On May 16, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Brian Rice wrote:
>> If you find that interesting, you should also check out the Faure
>> interface over the basic PDA model there:
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Faure.html
> I don't understand what Faure is. Can you explain briefly? Is it a
> collection of tools to create applications that would eventually be  
> used
> on a resource constrained device?  (I read the notes on squeaksource,
> but I'm still don't understand.)

Yes, more or less. The idea is to start with the basic UI of an iPod-
like device, being able to navigate in four directions and using a  
single-column browser to accomplish basic navigation. I kind of think  
of it as a single-pane OmniBrowser even if it isn't actually  
implemented that way (yet?). If a touchscreen or keyboard is present,  
it would also take gestures and clicks.

I would *like* the notes system to have a browseable keyword-tagging  
system, probably overlaying a Magritte-based model instead of the PDA  
class, but Magritte proved to be somewhat daunting to learn, despite  
being very interesting.

My contracting career focussed me elsewhere in the last two months,  
so progress has slowed, but I intend to return to it. (Speaking of  
which, I need to collaborate with Aaron Reichow again about his  
touchscreen UI work.)

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Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> Look at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3895
> If like the idea, I have some more recent.
> Anyway I should do a FunSqueak3.10 version and use it as "help" system.
> Edgar
>  
Thanks Edgar. I was thinking more of a collection of "note" objects that
could be organized in different ways. In the end, I don't want to be
confined to text as the only object that can be a note, or what a note
object contains.
 One way of organizing would be to collect unique words found in the
text. I was thinking that this could be done manually (by the user just
selecting them) and also automatically (which I have no idea how to do.)
I like the way Personal Brain links ideas (www.thebrain.com) in a
graphical way, but I would like it more versatile.

I'm using FreeMind a lot now but it's a Java app. Would love to see
this in Squeak. Connectors is the next best in-Squeak thing but would
be a lot better if based on a zoom-able interface. AFAIK scaling is
not properly supported in Morphic. You might also want to check out
the Script Manager in squeak-dev for plain text notes.

On 5/15/07, Brad Fuller <[hidden email]> wrote:

> This is a msg to Morphic experts:

I am not a morphic expert (IANAME)!

> I want to create a notes app - an application that keeps my notes and
> organizes them by keywords, and some other organizing ideas.
> First I'd like to create a handy note-taker. Do you have a suggestion on
> which text morph(s) to look at as a model? There are dozens of them.

The Stack Tools flap has a morph called Scrolling Text.  It's an
instance of ScrollableField.

HTH,
Steve