Amalthea
01-01-2006, 02:01 AM
First, I'd like to say, since this is my first thread, that I LOVE this program! It was the first program I bought for my palm when I got it last christmas, so I have reached my one year anniversary of using and loving BookBag!
As for my suggestions:
I've noticed that when you sort your entries by Series, it sorts the books within the series by alphabetical order. I would prefer to see it sort by volume order (which it does when you sort by author), because the whole reason I do a series search is to see what order the series goes in!
My second wish is more of a doozy. I wish that we could customize what we see in the View screen for records. I like to have all the fiddly info entered in case I should ever need it (ISBN, pub date, etc.), but I don't really want to see it every time I view a record. Plus it drives me crazy that the order is Title, Description, THEN Author, because I like to type in enough of a description that I remember a bit about the story line (I'm a bookseller, and sometimes use this program to reaquaint myself with books I've read so I can recommend them), and so most of the time I have to scroll down to see the Author. And if I could edit other things about the view screen (like the fact that it always says Author 1 even when there's only 1 Author, or if I could choose to make the field names in bold or underlined so they stood out more). Basically I guess I want a totally customizable View screen, which is probably a complete impossibility, but hey, a girl can dream!
Happy New Year!
P.S. I use this program exclusively on my palm, and haven't monkeyed around at all with the PC version yet. Mostly cuz I can't take my PC to work with me! So what I've said applies to the palm version. :)
As for my suggestions:
I've noticed that when you sort your entries by Series, it sorts the books within the series by alphabetical order. I would prefer to see it sort by volume order (which it does when you sort by author), because the whole reason I do a series search is to see what order the series goes in!
My second wish is more of a doozy. I wish that we could customize what we see in the View screen for records. I like to have all the fiddly info entered in case I should ever need it (ISBN, pub date, etc.), but I don't really want to see it every time I view a record. Plus it drives me crazy that the order is Title, Description, THEN Author, because I like to type in enough of a description that I remember a bit about the story line (I'm a bookseller, and sometimes use this program to reaquaint myself with books I've read so I can recommend them), and so most of the time I have to scroll down to see the Author. And if I could edit other things about the view screen (like the fact that it always says Author 1 even when there's only 1 Author, or if I could choose to make the field names in bold or underlined so they stood out more). Basically I guess I want a totally customizable View screen, which is probably a complete impossibility, but hey, a girl can dream!
Happy New Year!
P.S. I use this program exclusively on my palm, and haven't monkeyed around at all with the PC version yet. Mostly cuz I can't take my PC to work with me! So what I've said applies to the palm version. :)