I guess this is more directed at MC than you Andy, but do you think it might be possible to simply add a check-box to a note if you wanted it displayed in the Note Widget? This way we wouldn't have to worry about whether "HUD" was in the title or not.

I would imagine that would involve changing the data model for the Note, and seems a little too specific just to cope with my lil’ ’ol HUD

Looking at the Data Description for Notes, you could use the ‘isSyncNote’ field, and have that do double-duty, but that somehow doesn’t feel right.

Without a series of specific customisable check-boxes I could key into, it looks like parsing the title for a specific string—once I crack it—is the most data-model-friendly and open-ended solution.

The only other option might be using the Category pop-up, and key on a specific Category, but I'm not sure if that would break things elsewhere; or if it isn’t an appropriate thing to do, as it makes things less flexible. Thoughts?

But I'm open to any and all suggestions for improvements.

Yeah... I can see using the 'isSyncNote' field or categories causing too many headaches and reducing flexibility. Don't sell yourself short on your Note HUD though. I think it's going to be a very popular feature and one that I will be using extensively. A little check box when creating the note to "Include in Andy's Note HUD" would be great! I'll send the 'feature request' to MC.

It's worth pointing out that if you do want to use a different title for the Notes to indicate that they should be shown in the HUD, it's very easy.

Simply open the file

~/Library/Application Support/DayLite/HUDTemplates/HUDNotes.dlwkt/Template.html

in a text editor (like TextEdit), change line 22

<$if note.title == "HUD"$>

To

<$if note.title == "Your Chosen Title Here"$>

Save the file and re-start Daylite.

Now the HUD will show all those Notes with the exact title ‘Your Chosen Title Here’.

Simply use whatever you want for your own title between the quotes, as indicated; that way you can name your ‘HUD Notes’ more specifically for your needs.

Cheers

Andy... great suggestion! Thanks.

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Originally posted by Martin:
Maybe the guys at Marketcircle could add something to the next DL version, that:

Thanks for the suggestions. We have indeed considered the same things and are looking at how best to implement these for a future release.

Yes, just love the widget & would like to be able to do something similar with FORMS. It strikes me there are 3 concepts in play here; (a) the idea you can just have one default? "note" that highlights important/critical information (b) a filter system like tick box that makes available "relevant" notes & (c) having access to all notes. A similar approach is needed for emails - the Activity list can get very long - how great if "important" emails were available - so you could for example quickly find that protocol or procedure - specified by that contact rather than searching down a long activity list. At the moment its copy & paste this stuff into HUD widget. ;-) And oh ... what happens when I commit to using HUD Widget & Marketcircle come up with their variant? The cost of progress? ;-)

Gary

If you are comfortable editing Widgets, my FTP Login Widget shows the syntax for getting similar info from custom Forms and displaying it in the HUD, and can probably be modified to handle any type of Form.

I'm looking into the feasibility of adding Javascript into a Widget to handle more involved logic, but it's still early days on that score, so ‘intelligent’ filters on titles and contents is still some way away…

But, in theory, there is no reason why it couldn’t be done.

How about this... could the HUD Notes Widget work by searching the category rather than the note title?

If so, then just add a category called HUD and we're in business!

Just tested, and it works!

Change this:

 <$if note.title == "HUD"$> 

to this:

 <$if note model.category == "HUD"$> 

And create a category called HUD - then notes assigned with that category will show up.

Looks like I spoke too soon

Upon further investigation, it looks like I've ended up with ALL linked notes showing up in the HUD Notes Widget when I changed that code -- it seems it should work, at least in theory... perhaps the notation for the note category is wrong?

I also now see you (Andy) mentioned the idea of a category pop-up (I need more sleep so that I'm sure to read everything before writing!) -- did you mean a pop-up in the widget itself? Or the same thing I was trying to do?

My sense is that having using a category specifically for "HUDNotes" would allow for flexibilty in titling the notes (important especially for sync notes - can't deal with dozens of notes called "HUD" on the palm), but I realize it reduces the usefulness of categorizing notes for other purposes.

What if MC added the abiltiy to add keywords to notes and then you keyed on those? Keeps the title area free and clear. Keeps the full usefulness of categories. Requires a change to DL beyond just creating a widget.

Perhaps the idea of keying on HUD as "part" of the title is still the best approach.

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The correct code, should someone wish to use the category rather than the note title, appears to be

 <$if note.category.name == "HUD"$> 

So far in my testing this results in only notes assigned the category "HUD" showing up in the HUD.

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I also now see you (Andy) mentioned the idea of a category pop-up (I need more sleep so that I'm sure to read everything before writing!) -- did you mean a pop-up in the widget itself? Or the same thing I was trying to do?

My thought was what you have done, so that’s one less job for me

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My sense is that having using a category specifically for "HUDNotes" would allow for flexibilty in titling the notes (important especially for sync notes - can't deal with dozens of notes called "HUD" on the palm), but I realize it reduces the usefulness of categorizing notes for other purposes.

That too was my reservation; I tend to categorise Notes by other things, not all of which I’d want to appear in the HUD. Using categories simply doesn’t work for me (though it might for some).

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What if MC added the abiltiy to add keywords to notes and then you keyed on those? Keeps the title area free and clear. Keeps the full usefulness of categories. Requires a change to DL beyond just creating a widget.

That's a cool idea, and very in keeping with the rest of the app; have you cc’d that request to daylite-feedback (at) marketcircle.com? If not, I’d suggest you do.

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Perhaps the idea of keying on HUD as "part" of the title is still the best approach.

And one I’m still looking at.

Cheers

I love this widget. Thanks!

Tim

Tim

Thanks

I don’t know which version of the widget you are using, but there are a couple of other versions (2.0 and 2.1) mentioned in another thread, that allow you to key on a particular title, so you can choose which notes appear in the HUD. I suggest you read the thread for more details, in case one of those versions (assuming you are currently using version 1.0) might be more suitable.

Cheers