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In article <1992Sep03.021531.6059@brtph560.bnr.ca> pfkelly@bnr.ca (Pete Kelly) writes:
>In article <182qlvINN2e7@early-bird.think.com> Paco Ojeda,
>Paco_Ojeda_Gonzalez@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu writes:
>>I have been using Thought Pattern for storage of random thoughts and data
>...
>>nice and helpful man. The demo of Version 2.0, which will support these
>>new features was really cool and it should be out sometime this fall.
>
>And the owner (of Bananafish Software) is also *very* open to suggestions
>about what people want to see in the final product.  Not only are there
>new calendar and to-do additions but settable reminder alarms and a full
>address book function too.  

ok, here is a suggestion or two for an address book
	1) the font (and hence size of the display boxes etc.) should
		be easily chnaged (e.g. I want to be able to read phone
		numbers easily but will "look" for my notes).
	2) the fields and names and lengths of them should be vaiable
		(i.e. no fixed home, office, fax, )
	3) Fields should be of two types arbitrary text (like a phone
		number or name), and fixed text by which I mean one of
		a set of (edditable) entires (i.e. like home, office, fax, )
		The fixed part allows not only easly labeling of arbitrary
		fields, but categorizing where you are sure you are using
		the same categories (i.e. senator, not Sen and sen. and...)
	4) When printing the book, ALL entires should be merged into
		a single list. I have typically 3 types of entreis
			people, no company
			company, no person
			person and company
		    each wants to use only the fields that are appropriate
		    yet have 
			Joe Smith
			Bob Sutton, Apple
			Sure Fire Sales
		    come out as
			Apple
			    Bob Sutton (just name)
			Joe Smith
			    info
			Bob Sutton
			    info
			Sure Fire Sales

		thus you can look in your address book just like the
		Find command, it hits on any (meaningful) field, where
		meaningful for the book, name or company name.
	5) It should be integrated with fax sw to allow the a fax number
		on a selected/tagged/marked entry or set of entreis to
		be used by the fax sw, without having a second fax
		directory (obviously needs cooperation from the fax sw).
	6) it should run under A/UX 3.0

    well thats it, if it gets all of that, I am a customer for sure.
    (basically this is my gripe list from Dynodex).
	-jrg
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