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Originally Posted by Ken Case View Post
OK, here are the top dozen feature requests for OmniWeb:
  1. Add a conventional tab bar (#12937)
  2. Incremental page search (find as you type) (#15247)
  3. Add the ability to block or disable Flash, QuickTime, other plug-ins without requiring regex (#4965)
  4. Undo support for closing tabs/windows (#13237)
  5. Support multiple logins (username/passwords) per website, autocomplete logins (#13995)
  6. Provide some way to sort (reorder) bookmarks permanently so they appear sorted in the menu (#240)
  7. Lock status bar icon should show site's security info/certificate (#16051)
  8. Allow moving/dragging tabs from one workspace to another, deleting them, etc. (#13082)
  9. Bring back the bookmarks drawer [bookmarks sidebar] (#13035)
  10. Confirm Quit dialog box, optionally only when edited forms exist (#3581)
  11. Suggested improvements for URL autocomplete matching (#7404)
  12. New tabs should open up as a child of, or next to, a root tab (#17671)

Wow, bug #240! That's an old one, I wonder if there are any older unresolved requests in the database… Yes, there are, though none of them have many votes:
  • Scheduled / prioritized downloads (#182)
  • Want to assign window size to specific URLs or automatically resize windows based on URL and/or store window size in bookmark (#235)
  • Untitled but bookmarked pages should use bookmark label for Window menu (#236)

Ken, I appreciate your posting this. It's interesting. It makes me wonder whether you are soliciting feedback on what improvements should be highest priority.

It also leaves me unclear about what most of these potential improvements really mean, what they really are, because they contain jargon with which I'm unfamiliar.

BTW: I'm neither an 'inner circle' OF person, nor can I afford time to study the OF forum for ideas as much as I'd like to do.

I don't have time to become an OF acolyte, because I aspire to be a user, not a researcher of OF. I've "used" OF for about a year now.

Or maybe I should say, OF has used me for about a year.
Maybe someday, if I can dodge the slings and arrows of the "inner circle" enforcers of orthodoxy, I will "grad-u-ate" and actually become an OF user. Right now, I seem to have no alternative but to spend as much time studying it and its many, many, many undocumented capabilities, as I do using it.

In particular, my focus in getting value out of OF has been to consider OF only 50% and the other 50% to focus on how to integrate my use of OF with physical reality: ie., paper resources, files; and scaling this to meet the needs of my business, as well as my personal work.

{BTW: I am NOT sold on the 43 folders idea.}

I am devising my own filing system, integrating OF with paper reality. It is providing a much needed and complementary method to the 43 folders concept/method. My system would work even better with more meta-data fields in OF's version 2.0

Accordingly, I reluctantly conclude I have a stake in these top 10 "improvements", since my life (whether I like it or not) is being held hostage by OF, and future changes to it.

Accordingly, here are some questions which are personally very, very important to me:

1) In simple English, what are these top 10 changes; in particular:

a) what do they mean? ie., in laymen's English, please; and

b) what is their significance? Especially in terms of their purported benefits to OF users?

2) True or false: You have people (your OF users) who are willing to work for you for 25 cents an hour, and you have not found a way to revise your business and revenue model, to capitalize on their willingness to do so.

3) True or false: The product of the the following:

a) the amount of time the average OF customer spends researching, interpreting, studying undocumented features/aspects of OF derived from forum posts

times

b) the number of customers who do this

times

c) twenty-five cents per hour,

is AT LEAST TEN times what it would cost Omnigroup to hire a documentation specialist to capture
this information, and to create constantly updated new documentation.

3) Would it be worthwhile to consider whether you could offer an adjunct service ("premium" level) for a monthly subscription, where customers can get all this "STUFF" that appears on the Forum, digested and made simple, so that it does not require a degree in LIBRARY SCIENCE, to assemble, cross-reference, interpret and try to incorporate into their use of OF;
and would it be worthwhile to provide "best practice" case studies of how people solve problems and how they use OF, ie., what their routines are? And would it make sense to "spiff" people who offer such "case study" material (written up in layman's English by your documentation contractor)?

4) Is there life after birth?

5) Will the Mets win the pennant?

Last edited by Brian; 2009-09-18 at 05:25 PM.. Reason: removed unneccesary size tags
 
Flexattend, do you realize this is the OmniWeb forum, not the OmniFocus forum?
 
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Flexattend, do you realize this is the OmniWeb forum, not the OmniFocus forum?
WH, good buddy! Where have you been? I haven't heard from you in a while.

Though, I could have laid money on your being the first to respond. And laid more money on your finding some "rule-based" point on which to respond.

Though you make a good point. Who knew? All I noticed was some link that brought up "today's forum posts", but I didn't realize it apparently was bringing up posts for other OG products as well as ones for OF. I presume that this not the first time someone has made such a posting error.

But, if your terse response is meant to sidestep the substance of my 'rant', then, kind sir, you beg the questions I raise.

The main objective is accomplished: to get on Doctor Case's radar, yes? He's a busy man, but I'm confident he will be interested enuf in "dissent' and, moreover, that he realizes at some level that his business model cannot rely solely on a base of customers who are predominantly caught in a left-hemisphere cul-de-sac, yes?

Now, what about that book you and I were going to co-author: "Flexible Attention and Life Design with Omnifocus." Have you completed the draft of the second chapter, yet?
 
Seeing as how I appear to have the dubious distinction of being the most prolific poster here, you could make worse guesses.

Yep, definitely a rule-based response: when someone enters a thread devoted to discussion of popular feature requests for Program X, and starts complaining about documentation and missing features for Program Y, it is likely they have failed to notice they are posting in the wrong forum. It seems to happen more often between forums devoted to different versions of a single program, where the text you might be quoting is at least referring to the same program. I do agree that if you use the New Posts link and don't bother to read the whole line to see which forum a post is in, hilarity can and often does ensue.

Sidestep the substance of your rant? Why would I need to do that? Rant all you like! Your words speak for themselves. The posts from people who just need help setting up their perspectives aren't nearly as entertaining :-)

I'm hard at work on the second chapter, as discussed, but am still awaiting those albino zebra images and the graphs of historical houseboat mooring prices in Amsterdam that you promised me. Without those illustrations, the chapter just doesn't hang together satisfactorily, and i fear we might need to revise your outline.
 
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Originally Posted by Flexattend View Post
Ken, I appreciate your posting this. It's interesting. It makes me wonder whether you are soliciting feedback on what improvements should be highest priority.

It also leaves me unclear about what most of these potential improvements really mean, what they really are, because they contain jargon with which I'm unfamiliar.
Flexattend, I did try to edit out most of the jargon when posting that list, but since it's referring to OmniWeb features like Workspaces and Shortcuts (and not OmniFocus features like Perspectives and Quick Entry) it makes sense that you would be confused when wondering how they apply to OmniFocus—since they don't. Hopefully people who are familiar with OmniWeb's features aren't too confused by the contents of that list.

I will also mention that while we do consider the popularity of a request when deciding our development priorities, the popularity of a request doesn't determine its priority. (Otherwise, we would have had conventional tabs in OmniWeb and a priority column in OmniFocus long before now.)
 
 


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