1. c-had
   Developer

   I released 1.3b1 last night, the first beta for the upcoming 1.3 release. I'm really interested in feedback regarding the user interface behind Highlighting and Quick Lists. If you have any feedback regarding it, please let me know.

   Thanks,
   Chad

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. thebimbo
   Member

   Hi, for me the Quicklist icon works the wrong way showing what the other option is rather what the current setting is - this in contrast to the highlighter which show the current highlight colour. Maybe for the Quciklist a rocker switch would be better, so showing both options with the current active selection highlighted.

   By the way, I'm new here, I'd love an option to add meeting attendees (maybe from address book) to then link a comments & to do list to these persons... Ideally these two would then show in the toolbar and so you could quickly swap between them live or modify items afterwards.

   Also for when I am an attendee and may not actually have the PPT/Keynote a way of recording and still track everything to 'virtual' slides i.e. just a slide number. And also to be able to have MULTIPLE presentation files in a list (with or WITHOUT files if you follow the virtual slides idea from before) as quite often there are multiple speakers & presentation that may or may not have provided files in advance.

   Ideally the whole control of where the presenter is could also move to the toolbar with a prev/next rocker.

   Also for notes I'd appreciate an extra column (on very left) with configurable timestamp (e.g. DDMM HH:MM) so you can appreciate the flow with or without an actual sound recording, as often I do not want to record the sound.

   Also, ability to set an agenda (per presentation in list) that you can link to the notes i.e. wanna cover these 3 subjects, these are ticked referenced at these 3 points; these would be displayed in a separate pane (showing the agenda just for that presentation) that can be dragged to main window to reference. And here a goal time for that actual presentation would be good to with a countdown timer to show from the moment when that presentation is selected from the list.

   Also, and maybe I'm too optimistic, maybe even a way to integrate with Skype; bouth sound/chats... I do a lot of Skype confcalls and it would help to have all agendas, comms & notes within one dashboard...!

   Anyway, haven't had a chance to look thru the forum, maybe some of this has already been requested...

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. c-had
   Developer

   Wow, that's a lot of feedback. Thanks very much. I'll take it all into consideration. I'll respond to a couple of the things you said now, though.

   1) You can record timestamps without recording audio. Just uncheck the "Record Audio" checkbox before hitting record. Pear Note will still timestamp every character and allow you to play back the order they happened in. This was originally intended for people who record audio externally and later import it into Pear Note, but you can use it however you like.
   2) Some people do record Skype calls (the audio portion) within Pear Note using some 3rd party tools. I wrote up a blog article on how to do this here: http://www.usefulfruit.com/blog/2008/10/recording-online-meetings-and-interviews/ . I know this is more work than most would want to do, but it's a way to make this work currently.

   Again, thanks for all the other feedback and suggestions,
   Chad

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. thebimbo
   Member

   Hi Chad, thanks I knew about 'virtual recording' but see the request about showing the timestamps in a column.

   What I meant re the virtual slides is that currently the slide transport does not function if there are no presentation pdf/ppt/keynote present! Indeed, my request is about changing this that I could still use the transport (and maybe even name the slides that should then appear in the notes) for when I am in a slide presentation but I don't have these slides on my Laptop. Indeed without reference to the visuals it is otherwise difficult to understand the notes; see the following example of what this could then look like:

   Enter 1 and Name of slide in slide transport;
   1. "Introduction"

   In notes;
   [1. Introduction]
   "Seems these guys are not just in design but do web development"

   next slide in transport (or I can type the square brackets and slide name manually in the notes), "Organisation"

   In notes;
   [2. Organisation]
   "Wonder where their aggressive salesman has gone".

   Chosing an attendee from a pop-up much like the colours now (or typing the codes directly) the notes could read like this:

   me: when can you deliver on our requirements
   Jane Bower: I can commit to us delivering by month end
   me: I'll get the contract drawn up and faxed to you

   Afterwards I could then select "Jane Bower" and see all her answers and I could flip though the slides (with names) and go through my notes as if I had the slides all along.

   Anyway, food for thought :-)

   Re 2) thanks for that and I'll give it a try.

   Regards, mark

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. c-had
   Developer

   Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense now.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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