forum Site-specific suggestions

Started December 23, 2017 by @Werevampiwolf

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I AGREE WITH ALL OF THAT IT WOULD BE SO SO HELPFUL!!

just a thought that came to me just now, would be a function in the forums that allows you to see all the threads you've posted in. Doesn't matter how long said thread has been dead, it still turns up in the list. Maybe have it sorted by how long it's been since there was a post, what board it's in, or whether you were the last person to comment or not, and whether you are following it or not.
I think this would be very helpful for keeping track of RP's, and other chat threads, especially if you need to go bump the RP thread, or you've lost it and can't find it via search….

@starry This suggestion would go in the Forum-specific Suggestions thread, but I agree, that would be handy.

Big agree(even if it is in the wrong thread)

Ok so a lot of people(including myself)have suggested a Family tree, but a way to map out relationships between characters who aren't family would be nice too. Like a way to keep track of who's friends with who, who hates who, who dated who, that kinda thing.

Like we should be able to add little bubbles with characters names in them, that link back to the characters pages, with different colored lines going from each telling you their relationship with another character.

Yes, this please! And having it auto-position the various bubbles would be super handy.

Another idea that I thought up while doing character design:

How about a Tab for 'Clothing'? I feel like authors that play around with different cultures could really use something like that. Where we can describe textiles, color schemes, post pictures of ideas and such.

Maybe I'm just going too in depth with my insanity, but I thought I'd throw it out there!
:) Thanks andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)

Another idea that I thought up while doing character design:

How about a Tab for 'Clothing'? I feel like authors that play around with different cultures could really use something like that. Where we can describe textiles, color schemes, post pictures of ideas and such.

Maybe I'm just going too in depth with my insanity, but I thought I'd throw it out there!
:) Thanks andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I COULD USE THIS!!!

How about a Tab for 'Clothing'?

@Starlight_I_love_Magic and @FaeEris-LadyOf-47Protons

With the ability to add our own tab categories and fields this is definitely possible! I’ve added a field called “Clothing Style” under the Looks tab on my character pages, but if you want a whole tab for it with different fields you could certainly add it! I reckon adding it to a Location could work if it’s clothing for a whole culture or region.

is there a way to have multiple different categories open at once (without having to open different tabs on whatever server people use) for references so I don't have to keep remembering to save my pages every time I have to go out and look something up? for example I want to look at location #1 whilst I'm working on location #2 but ill have to leave location #2 to look at location #1

@StevenUniversefangirl not at the moment, as far as I'm aware of. For now, you'll just have to keep multiple tabs open.

That's a good idea, @StevenUniversefangirl. I'm working on some big UI changes soon that I'll try to work something like that into. For now I usually open multiple pages (like location #1 and #2) in multiple tabs so I can flip between them quickly.

If y'all have examples of other timeline systems you've seen/liked and/or timelines you've drawn by hand for planning, I'd love to see them. Timelines are technically super hard to build, but designing a timeline system that works for everyone without being so complicated only some people can use it is also pretty hard. It's a design work in progress, but I'd definitely like to do timelines sometime. :)

I personally would use timelines for two things. First, the overall history events which would be great to implement with a calendar system. Second would be for plotting a storyline.
As for timelines I liked - bibisco (http://www.bibisco.com/) and plotist (https://www.plotist.com/about) come to mind. bibisco has a nice and simple way to lay out events while plotist amazed me with their colorful and easy to handle drop and drag design.
Timelines are one of the few things that I would love to be able to create on this site, so I hope you find a way to implement them :)

I also would like to suggest to be able to edit the type of page one can add to a template? I'd really like to change up some link pages, since my story involves gods being leaders in their own politics and such, so changing character link pages to deities link pages would be super helpful. Would that be possible somehow?

I would like to be able to reorder the fields in a category.

Hey @InfiniteDream, you can do that by dragging on the 3 horizontal bars next to any field to reorder it. It works for categories also. :)

@andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) Thank you!

Hey! @andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)

I had a thought whilst aimlessly working on some stuff today.
For those of us that have collab universes with other users, I thought it would be super helpful if we got a notification when the other person made edits anywhere in the universe. That way both users can know who's working on what, etc.
I also thought it would be pretty helpful if maybe each user in the collab had a different font color, so it's easy to see who has done what and the like.

Just a little wish list for organization!

Thanks :D

A roadmap type thing would be nice, So we know what new features are being planned and worked on

@FaeEris maybe not a different font color, but maybe an underline color or something (since page links are already colored).

I think it should be possible to create one of all pages that require a premium subscription. Only one, of course. I personally cannot subscribe at the moment, but some of those pages would be very useful.

New idea!!
Premium user only forums
Writing forums that contain a surplus of writing advice, high quality RPs, a way to try out a notebook.ai update before it’s released, etc. Maybe even a forum where you can get solid writing advice (but in order to post your own forum, you first have to give advice/comments on other people’s writing?)
It might be a way to get more users to pay for premium, idk though

i don't like the idea of singling out the RPs, but otherwise the rest sounds awesome

I don’t mean that RPs would be a premium thing only
Idk it’s hard to explain what I meant lol

A roadmap type thing would be nice, So we know what new features are being planned and worked on

Fun fact: Notebook.ai is entirely open source so anyone can work on anything at any time. However, I do have a board of priorities here that I direct people towards when they want to help out. The columns left-to-right separate projects by size (small, medium, large, etc) but top-to-bottom in each column is the priority, so there's a good chance the top issues will get worked on first.

Hey! @andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)

I had a thought whilst aimlessly working on some stuff today.
For those of us that have collab universes with other users, I thought it would be super helpful if we got a notification when the other person made edits anywhere in the universe. That way both users can know who's working on what, etc.
I also thought it would be pretty helpful if maybe each user in the collab had a different font color, so it's easy to see who has done what and the like.

Just a little wish list for organization!

Thanks :D

@FaeEris I totally agree. I've been thinking about a notification system for a while and what kinds of things would actually belong in one, and that's definitely up there. I'll see if I can get something penned out to work on soon. :)

One thing I’d really like would be having the ability to disable certain types of prompts like ‘notes’ and ‘private notes’.

One thing I’d really like would be having the ability to disable certain types of prompts like ‘notes’ and ‘private notes’.

This please.

I once wrote "it doesn't make a good back scratcher" in the private notes of a sword just to stop it from popping up in my prompts

@FaeEris I totally agree. I've been thinking about a notification system for a while and what kinds of things would actually belong in one, and that's definitely up there. I'll see if I can get something penned out to work on soon. :)

I figured you were already on it, I just thought I would second the motion. XD Thanks!

I once wrote "it doesn't make a good back scratcher" in the private notes of a sword just to stop it from popping up in my prompts

Yeah, now I mostly just put an x whenever it comes up.

• It'd be cool to be able to search for users
• I think having the option of placing bookmarks in discussions could be cool. Like, "oh, someone complimented me on page 64– Let me put a bookmark there so I can look back at it!!" It could just be a little square around the page number, and maybe you could even name it {i.e. under the marked '64' it could say 'Compliment from ___!' It could be useful in a lot of situations.
• We NEED the option to see a list of discussions we're following/have commented on, even when there are no new notifications.
• Maaaaybe having the ability to follow people and be notified when they create new public content {IDK about that one though} or being told when they're online