Re: Interesting new software with really bad name

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-10-07 16:05:15

Here’s some correspondence with the developer of MLN that I don’t think they would mind my sharing. I got the response within hours of sending the question, and various blogs speak of exchanges with the developer, so your experience would seem atypical perhaps.

This is the exchange:

Stephen,

Thanks for your feedback. Fortunately we have good news. The next release of Miss Lonelynotes (1.1) allows users to assign cards to more than one category. In the Deck view the individual categories look like small tags or boxes in the upper left of the card. Miss Lonelynotes 1.1 is currently in QA and slated for release around October 15th. It will be a free upgrade.

Mindola Software
http://www.mindola.com

—————Original Message——————-
Subject: Feature Request
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:07:29 -0700
From: “Stephen R. Diamond” <

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Your Miss LonelyNotes program is elegant. I have only one criticism, but for me at the moment this single factor seems to tilt my decision toward a competing product.

Here it is. The program uses outlining for two purposes: to organize a writing and to categorize the material. Essentially the process is the same for both, but it should be different. In an outline of a writing, any segment will occur only under a single heading. But to categorize the material to find it quickly, it is useful to apply different key words to the same material. Doing so is the equivalent of placing one piece of material in multiple categories, which MLN doesn’t allow.

Any chance you will all a one-to-many mapping from items to categories in future versions, to make it consistent with the latest thinking concerning applying facet analysis to knowledge management.

Stephen R. Diamond

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