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Posted by Amontillado
Nov 30, 2020 at 05:29 PM
Martin, great to see you here.
I know you have about a million hours of hard work in Coppice. I hope it sells like wild fire.
The page-to-many-canvas paradigm is brilliant. Curio won’t do transcluded notes, which I’ve always thought of as a shortcoming.
The shape resizing stuff is probably pretty tricky. Curio has had its share of glitches in that department, too.
Best wishes from a soon-to-be customer!
Martin Pilkington wrote:
Hi folks, I’m Martin, the developer of Coppice. If you have any
>questions please let me know and I’ll try my best to answer them.
>
Posted by Martin Pilkington
Nov 30, 2020 at 06:47 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Hi Martin,
>
>Good to see a developer in the forum! Coppice is a nice new find
>– I’ve been toying with it over the past couple of
>days. There are a few bugs (notably a rather odd one where the width of
>the actual text inside a (text) page gradually grows narrower and
>narrower until the app crashes), but on the whole it’s working
>very well.
Thanks. I’m aware of this bug and have tried to hunt it down but it can be very temperamental. I’m still trying to find a fix for it but I’m hopeful I’ll find one soon
>Couple of other things to mention: the way branches work is a little
>counter-intuitive. After you create a link to another page, the branch
>between said pages doesn’t actually appear until you close one of
>them and then click the link to reopen it again. Or at least,
>that’s the way it’s working for me!
Yeah, that’s the way things currently work. The honest answer for why (as with a lot of decisions in this initial version of Coppice) is it’s the simplest method to implement and still get the necessary functionality. I wanted to get the foundations of pages, canvases, linking, and branches all in place to begin with, but I have plans to massively improve and refine all of them. Being able to create a link on a Canvas between two existing pages is certainly one of many improvements I want to make in the future.
>And the search function could do with being slightly boosted. I like the
>list of results in the left-hand bar, but highlighted hits would also be
>nice (they do briefly “flash” as the search is completed,
>but then the highlights disappear again).
This is sort of similar to above. I do want to improve searching in the future. I’ll add this to the todo list and see what I can come up with (though I can’t say exactly when I’ll get round to searching as there’s a lot of work to do all over the app).
>But overall, looks like a nice addition to the Scapple/idea-mapping
>space. I hope you’re contemplating an iOS version?
I don’t have any concrete plans right now as I’m focused on the Mac version, but I can definitely see the potential for Coppice on an iPad.
Franz Grieser wrote:
tightbeam wrote:
>>I hope he’s contemplating a *Windows* version.
>
>Well, let’s ask him: Martin. What about a Windows version?
Unfortunately a Windows version is unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future. I’m primarily a Mac/iOS developer so don’t really have the experience or tools for developing on Windows. I can’t rule out there ever being a Windows version, but if it does happen it will likely be long into the future.
Amontillado wrote:
Martin, great to see you here.
>
>I know you have about a million hours of hard work in Coppice. I hope it
>sells like wild fire.
>
>The page-to-many-canvas paradigm is brilliant. Curio won’t do
>transcluded notes, which I’ve always thought of as a shortcoming.
>
>The shape resizing stuff is probably pretty tricky. Curio has had its
>share of glitches in that department, too.
>
>Best wishes from a soon-to-be customer!
>
Thanks. It has certainly been a lot of work getting Coppice ready. It’s an app I’ve wanted for myself for a long time and I’m glad so many others are liking it too!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 2, 2020 at 09:42 AM
Yes, the transclusion is a very neat feature – simple but effective (like all the best info management apps).