2024-01-26, 10:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-01-26, 10:29 PM by theskyhound.)
Ok, well now I get it. It doesn't seem like there is necessarily an actual use for this feature in SkyTools--except that the existing notes brief is too short to hold all of your information.
Adding a special association feature would help, but looking at the big picture, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to add a custom capability for every type of information one might want to add. That would become unwieldy, and it makes the attachments more complicated, which is pretty much the last thing I want to do. I recently spent a lot of time trying to simplify them in the hope that people would actually use them.
Expanding the brief is also not a good idea. This is a brief for a reason: there is only so much room on the screen or paper.
So... that leads us to the way its intended to be used in the first place: put most of your info in the notes rather than the brief, leaving the brief for only those critical (and short) items. I think maybe you are so used to having it all in one place that you may have missed how nice it is to be able to access much more information outside of the columns of the planner. After all, the Object Info partly exists because all that info won't fit in columns.
Allow me to imagine how that might work for you. You are doing one of your live sessions. You have duly of the associated data in in the notes part rather than the brief, by selecting each object and pressing "i" and typing/pasting away. During the session you want to refer to this information to read to your audience Presumably the object you are working with is already highlighted in the planner. Press "i" and read what you have entered.
What is the drawback to that?
Adding a special association feature would help, but looking at the big picture, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to add a custom capability for every type of information one might want to add. That would become unwieldy, and it makes the attachments more complicated, which is pretty much the last thing I want to do. I recently spent a lot of time trying to simplify them in the hope that people would actually use them.
Expanding the brief is also not a good idea. This is a brief for a reason: there is only so much room on the screen or paper.
So... that leads us to the way its intended to be used in the first place: put most of your info in the notes rather than the brief, leaving the brief for only those critical (and short) items. I think maybe you are so used to having it all in one place that you may have missed how nice it is to be able to access much more information outside of the columns of the planner. After all, the Object Info partly exists because all that info won't fit in columns.
Allow me to imagine how that might work for you. You are doing one of your live sessions. You have duly of the associated data in in the notes part rather than the brief, by selecting each object and pressing "i" and typing/pasting away. During the session you want to refer to this information to read to your audience Presumably the object you are working with is already highlighted in the planner. Press "i" and read what you have entered.
What is the drawback to that?
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound