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    André Bomfim commented  · 

    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."

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    André Bomfim commented  · 

    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

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