App ideas

[Cheechwhiz]

Is there anybody out here that would like an app idea. I'm not programish.
I want a "Daily Deep Thoughts [my own selections] Pop-up-on start/Recur yearly/ insert-when-you-find-one" program". There are lots of things out there that do parts, but none that do it all.
There are lots of folks who use a daily meditation to kick-start their day, so , this seems like a good one.
Make it for me and it's yours to do what you want...........

Cet on this thread and we can kick it around.............

[Eric S]

Where's that jaw-hitting-the-ground smiley? I've got about 50 items in Bonsai about just such an app, and I really NEED it. And I can program it. If Datebk5 won't do what I need, I will write it.

My working title for the program is GeekNag. The geek may go (one of my many job titles is geekzilla), but the Nag stays, because I need something annoying enough to keep my life in line.

I'll post my ideas when I get back from lunch :)

[Eric S]

First question is what you really want here. I don't think we're looking at exactly the same program, but I think the functionality you're looking for is almost a subset of what I'm looking for.

I'm looking at something that will nag me into doing certain tasks. Get the garbage out, pay the credit card bills, take my medicine, that kind of stuff. A quote of the day would be easy to add into that infrastructure, if that's what you're looking for. Set it up for a random (or rotating) message pulled from a database on a daily/weekly/whatever basis, and you're ready.

That might be a good learning program for the full program, since it involves playing with a few features that PalmOS3.5 didn't have, and that's all I've programmed for up till now (my HandEra 330 wasn't upgradable, but it served me well until I gave in and picked up an NX60).

Now, for the nag functionality.

I want something that will keep a list of two things.

1) items:

Name/description
Due date/time
Notification date/time
Repeat interval
Repeat count
Repeat from due time or from completion time
Alert methods
When not to alert for this item (don't bother telling me to take the trash out when I'm at work)
Default snooze (not just a 5-minute snooze)
Collision management (multiple instances of the same item are currently active, what to do with them?)
External program to run (do we really need/want this?)
Number of instances to keep live
[Keep newest/oldest instances live
Times to check for notification
Minimum time between notifications.

2) instantiations of items: (most of this wouldn't be user-set)

item this instantiation corresponds to
Time of last notification
Time snoozed till

3) When to check for new instantiations or alerts on existing instantiations

First power/on of the day
Poweron when no check has been done within last X timeframe
Specific times/days of the week to check


That's all I have time for right now, I'll come back and edit this later, and if we're thinking in compatible directions, we can bounce ideas off of each other.

edit: O.K., who got lazy and didn't allow for nested lists? who wrote vBulletin?

[Cheechwhiz]

Been slow to come back to this.
I'd love to bounce it around wid ja.......
What I'm after in this would have:

user determined data- I want to input [copy/paste/or draft] my own selection of "Deep Thoughts" from what is important to me.
It would be great if it had room for several meditations cued to the same day.

Important- that it NOT feed the selections into the Palm datebook/memo/ToDo list format....I can do that now. I don't want to have to scroll thru awhole lot of stuff to get at my appointments etc. and don't want it to transfer into the third-party things like Agendus. I want to read it and move on with my day.

pop-up daily- on start up and/ or at pretetermined times.['course you can always start up the program on its own]. The ability to cycle randomly would be a great secondary feature.

I would like it to go to the reading immediately- just "boing" and there it is- no start screens to cycle thru. My default would be for a full year of readings/data repeating on that same day next year. I have a number of "daily meditations" books that I go to each day. This is their format.


I like your idea of a "nagger". I get the feeling that your focus is more toward that, WordSmith lets you toggle with a "tab" at the top of the open screen to go from big texts to the built-in memos. Mebbe there could be two functions - reading and nags- that popup and you could switch. I need a nagger too.

I'll look back in on this as I have ideas. My wife said something at lunch just now and I went,"Great idea for the DeepThoughts program." NX was on the cradle, so it's search-that-memory time now.........

[Eric S]

Check out http://geekzilla.org/projects/geekmotd/ and let me know if I'm on the right track. Just changed something, i was originally planning on allowing it to pull messages from MemoPad categories in addition to having its own databases. I might still do that, but I decided that the ability to import from MemoPad would be more important. Maybe an option to export a specific Message to MemoPad, but certainly not SOP.

[Eric S]

P.S., if anyone else has any requests for simple programs, let me know. If they ignite a fire in my imagination, it could just happen.

[Cheechwhiz]

Eric- ThanX, I'll keep back here more often............
more thoughts-

the built-in "categories" out of Memo/ToDo ought to be a quick solution to having different user designated thoughts-nags- reminders.

mebbe "run if [PALM] idle for xx hours"- this is in the MyWeek program off of PalmGear.

Haven't thought of what my wife said yet.............

[thack]

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic...

I would like to use such a program also. However, the program under discussion is still under development. Are there any similar programs that are available now? They might not be the same thing but might be good enough until the program discussed is completed.

Thanks,
Terence.

[jeffrey]

P.S., if anyone else has any requests for simple programs, let me know

What I need and can't seem to find is a good alarm clock. No Currency converter, no multiple time zones, temperatures, clothing size converter, or anything like that. Just a plain and simple 320x480 digital clock with red LED-style numbers and black background and an alarm, suitable for use as a nightstand alarm clock in a hotel that doesn't provide one.
Every other other clock I've seen is either low-res (the glare from the exposed Graffiti area would keep me awake) or so awash in unwanted features that it wasn't worth it. The only other feature I would want is the ability to snooze the alarm by touching anywhere on the screen.

Jeff

[Trp]

Use the "world alarm clock" that comes with the clie, to snooze, press the power button. and having it as a nighstand... your battery would run out.

[jeffrey]

The World alarm clock is no good. The clock display is much too small. All I want is a dirt-simple clock with no fancy features. As for power drain, I can plug it into the AC adapter.

[Narniahopper]

Originally posted by Eric S
P.S., if anyone else has any requests for simple programs, let me know. If they ignite a fire in my imagination, it could just happen.

You've really opened a can of worms there. :p

An address book with pictures that can be stored on the memory stick. Something like a combination of the built-in address book on some Clies, and AcidImage. See, how tough can that be? ;)

[Eric S]

Originally posted by Narniahopper


You've really opened a can of worms there. :p

An address book with pictures that can be stored on the memory stick. Something like a combination of the built-in address book on some Clies, and AcidImage. See, how tough can that be? ;)

Don't get me started. I'm close enough to writing my own addressbook just to be able to sort by first name!

Has Sony documented their extension to the address book database format anywhere (for backward compatibility)? That and the specs to PGP formated pictures would be the biggest hurdles I see for that project, aside from time.

Heck, I've even got a skinnable calculator on my todo list, and I don't skin anything :)

[M@C]

My Wish list:

There are only 2 apps that I REALLY want:
1) TTS email
This isn't as bad as it sounds! It's not even really that much of a PalmOS app, except for the conduit portion.
I want a conduit that will go to my mail, convert the email to MP3 and save it to the MSAUDIO dir on the MS. I've found one app that does TTS and saves it as an MP3 http://www.v3mail.com but you have to cut and paste the email to make it work.
I've also found this person who did somthing similar under UNIX and saving everything to a CD-R http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2002-May/000340.html
So it's possible.. but as someone who just installed cygwin and prc-tools for the first time yesterday I'm not really feeling up to it :o

2) A VRML viewer for PalmOS 5
With the new OS5 devices we should have enough power to view a VRML file. I wrote a VRML export for work, and would love to view those files on my NX. There is a pretty good VRML view for PPC http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortonace and now that Sony has given us the power it would be nice to see one for the Clie.


M@