I’d love something that automatically saved each note, allowed me to tag keywords automatically and would link names and Email addresses to other notes. Even two of these three would be great.

For everyone who’s interested, contact me at bramduvigneau+toodledo@gmail.com. As I said, there’s nothing to see yet… but would be nice to see how much people are interested.

Bram

Sounds like a great idea. I’ve not used that site myself but as I never really got on with remember the milk it sounds like something worth checking out.

keep us posted, or send us a URL when you want testers, you’ve got one here and I’m sure several more from reading these comments!

Sean.

I just started working on an offline client to http://www.toodledo.com. First of all it’s a to do application. But you can attach notes to tasks and give tasks a -1 prio and let them stay in the system, searchable but not in your to do lists. Furthermore you can tag every task and attach a context to it (@home, @work etc) and put tasks into folders. I just started working on this and it will take some time. I’m now doing the low level stuff to talk with the website, when that’s done, I can start with the program itself.

And because I’m a blind computer user also, of course the thing will work with screenreaders.

I think a search tool that can find notes with multiple tag criteria would be nice, sort of like how labels work on GMail. I work for my dad, so he’s family, and he’s my boss. I need to tag some notes about my dad with both work and family tags sometimes because the lines get blurry. Sometimes I may need to find those notes where both of those tags exist while not showing notes that just have one of those tags on it.

It would be great if the notetaking system is able to handle/recognize URLs and email addresses with a keystroke to launch the address in your default browser or email client. I constantly take down someone’s email address while on the phone, and I write it in Keynote because it’s much faster than bringing up the Outlook Contacts form. Then I get busy and never seem to get around to putting the person’s address into outlook. I waste more time than I should just hunting for email addresses and URLs I’ve saved. It would be nice to have a view that shows notes that contain email addresses to zoom in on the information quickly.

Hmm. It would be cool to make it possible to set a customized default view for the program when it starts. It might be nice to be able to save certain frequently used tag/date searches too.

If a person used a tag of “remind,” and a note contained a date in it, could the program have an optional remind list that could display notes that have the current day’s date in them? The list could be something that shows as a small panel below the tree as a sort of today’s preview that you can tab over to for a quick glance.

I’m told that Microsoft’s OneNote can do many of these things. Unfortunately, FS hasn’t done much scripting in it, and the program itself is rather expensive. I have it, but I am not proficient with using it. When all is said and done, I go back to Keynote because I haven’t found something that works well with speech and does the things I need.

Do you think there is an open-source program that comes close to these things that we could adapt to work well for speech users? I tried one called WikiPad, I think. It did some of these things, but I didn’t know how to get JAWS to speak the screens for me. I think it has promise as a program. I couldn’t tell how scriptable for JAWS it was though.

Then I made a note called, say, “things to do tomorrow” with text:
1. eat.
2. call Bob Smith about funny smell in RCC194B.

The words “Bob Smith” in the note text would become a link to the Bob Smith note, so I could just click the link and have the contact details I needed. Kind of like a wiki, accept I didn’t have to remember to do anything special to get the links to appear. It would also detect the “things to do tomorrow” name and send me an email the next day, reminding me about my things to do. It could also show related notes, IE notes with a similar set of tags. So when viewing a note tagged “shopping,” I could see a list of other notes I made about “shopping” under the text of my current note. Stikkit was my God. When it went away, I nearly cried. Seriously. I morned for over a month. Now I use dotproject to organize my to-dos, and keynote for everything else. But it’s not the same! It’s just not the same! Stikkit could do absolutely everything you want. And more! But it’s no longer online. ‘xcuse me. I’m going to go have a drink.