Showing more than one note concurrently is not enough

Posted by 22111
Nov 2, 2013 at 01:11 PM

Ok, the passage with regards to holding down dedicated “arrow” keys for replacing home/end/pgup/pgdn was the dumb part of the concept, of course you will hold down them in the same way as you would do with the original arrow keys (which are always there), i.e. for fast navigating up and down along several lines/entries. Thus, “fast double press” is possible, or then, why not use the native keys, after having selected their scope, in rare cases. In real life, the lists in pane 1 and 3 will not be endless, so a double press of their dedicated up or down keys will do a pgup/pgdn, and there will not be a dedicated home/end assignment - just do several such double presses when really necessary, and why not use the alternative of shift-dedicated-up/dn (pgup/dn), and ditto for control (home/end), or even holding down 0,2 / 0,4, but with control-key pressed, too, which will leave shift and alt combinations for other uses.

Also, bear in mind that in lists (panes 1, 3, 5), the left/right arrow keys remain unused, naturally, which makes them available there for other commands. And somebody please tell me why there doesn’t seem to be, at this moment, but ONE keyboard available worldwide that “fills up” the 5 free key positions beween the 6-block and the 4-arrows-block, on any keyboard where these 6 and 4 keys are placed in the traditional way: It’s from Cherry, it’s expensive, but the show-stopper is the absence of a sensible number of additional keys there (MultiBoard V2 G80-8200), and with other of their expensive keyboards, you’ll get even more, real big problems (cf. MultiBoard V2 G80-8113 where a totally crazy touchpad where you’d absolutely need keys totally invalidates any advantages of the second F key range).

These are details, the paradigm shift of this concept residing in the fact that for the very time, a PIM also replaces your file manager for all of your information management purposes, acting in real-time onto your file system and other parallel storage systems (databases like OL and others), instead of trying to work with partial snapshots of all these which then quickly run out of synch.

Permanent (and “invisible”, except if you check with “screen spy” tools) switching between the needed, dedicated viewers, within the content pane, is one of the things UR does do more than correctly (e.g. for displaying the 50 k “original” of a jpg, instead of importing it and by this inflating the database by another 1.5 million bytes), and as you see, such a hybrid system of (visually equally treated) content, internal or external to the IMS, can be optimized, for a brand-new IM experience. Also, when (as mentioned above), your notes of today (= in a field of pane 2 of 6), if they are business-related, automatically become stored, invariable, secured “documents” “tomorrow” (listed in the timeline in pane 3, and to be displayed in pane 4), this will make it a full-grown DMS, even for legal purposes - whilst today, not a single PIM would fulfill this role and could thus be used as a DMS; cf. similar problems with many accountancy softwares. Of course, this observation of legal regulations would imply the implementation of hash value storage and such; I do not pretend to be able to code this part of the thing, but then, it’s evident there are components to buy for such special tasks within the compound system.