Various improvement requests
On the Mac:
1. search => works, but I don't know in which case is the result. There should be a column identifying the case path
2. there should be a way of going through all the notes in order. Just for reading purposes, not studying. "View notes in case" function doesn't give a linear read.
3. Ability to hide the learning / info box on the data entry form. Takes up too much space on a small monitor.
4. Ability to disable to switch off transferring lessons to iPhone / iPod. I have an iPhone where I study case by case, topic by topic. I don't need the lesson collection. It makes my database at least twice as big on the iphone
On the iPhone:
5. Proper database management. I have 14000 flashcards which could grow to 50000 easily. (Spanish example sentences and so on). Why can't I have the whole thing on my iPod? The database is 6 MB on the Mac, it doesn't take up much space. On the iPod I have 8GB just for flashcards! I need the ability to have more flashcards and a more robust database management
6. Search function would be needed
7. Ability to jump to a question by entering the page number. I have sometimes 300 flashcards in a case. I'd like to go to the middle I have to flick the screen 150 times in the study mode!
8. Study mode => use the full screen! When you hide the top and bottom menu bars, resize the text to fill the screen. Sometimes I have lots of text on a card. Why hide the menu bars, if you don't use the space anyway??? lol
Little help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the tool, it's really great!
Mentalcase is the single, most useful app in the AppStore!
Re: Improvements
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on version 2.0 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad at the moment, and it will change a lot from the current version. I think we are planning improvements to all areas you mention.
A few things to note:
- You can look in 'Info' in editing mode to see which case a note is in.
- If you don't use the lesson, you can turn it off on the Mac in preferences by setting the schedule to 'None'. That way the notes will not go to the iPhone.
- There is already a search function on the iPhone. In any case, including All Notes, just go right to the top.
- We allow you to hide the menu bars in order to concentrate more on your card content, and not be distracted. Even if we reclaimed that space, you wouldn't get much more text on the screen anyway, and it would not be very aesthetically pleasing with text right up to the border. In any case, this will also change in version 2.
Thanks for the feedback.
Drew
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Drew McCormack
Mental Case Developer