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Records as stack cards

I think it would be great if Memento Database could provide an option for visualization of the records as stack cards. It would allow us to have a general view over multiple records at the same time, which is incredible if you are trying to compare different records.

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  • André Bomfim commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, that sure helps! Thanks, Pete!

    Regarding the card stacks suggestion, I've got this information from the memento database google groups' forum:

    "With the way memento is designed and written currently it would be very problematic to enact this. I wouldn't look for this option any time in the near future.
    There are many other more productive features memento could do that are feasible.

    There are index card apps out there that do these things."

  • Pete commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah I could see where that might be useful in a few use cases, especially witha tablet with more screen space.

    Not sure if it helps but I also discovered you can click on the little "column" icon in the upper left most cell of the table view and choose which columns to see, thus allowing you to narrow it down to just a couple. Then click on the column header of your lengthy field and set it's width to 400% and you've got quite a lot of room for information, though maybe still not enough if you have large chunks of text in fields.

  • André Bomfim commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi, Pete,

    I agree that it would be great to edit fields in place on the table view and I agree that it is a different problem.

    You are right to point that what I've suggested is similar with what we can achieve with the table view. However I think a "stack cards" view could present some complementary possibilities.

    With the table view, we can indeed have a general view of the database, but we can't see the content of each record entirely. This view only presents a little excerpt of each field. Since I work mainly with the memento databases for research and creative writing purposes (mainly for text!), I usually put a lot of content inside one field of a record, and this is an issue for me when I try to have a general view of my records.

    And I'm not suggesting to expand each row of the table view mode in order to accomodate the entire content of the greater field because I believe the stacks cards would be a much more graphical way to present information.

    One of my databases is dedicated to characters for example, another for chronological data (like scenes or episodes). In these cases it is common to use stack cards, and since I'm a heavy user of databases, I was wondering if that couldn't be applied to Memento.

    I would also add another suggestion: that we can create a visualization mode through which only selected fields are shown. This is specially useful when we share our databases with other users but we want to restrain what they can see.

    Best,

    André Bomfim

  • Pete commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm curious what you mean by this and how it would be different from the "Table" view already in Memento where you can see any / every field of entries next to eachother in a spreadsheet format?

    It would be nice if we could edit more of those fields in place on the table view, but that's a different problem.