Implemented features in Phenomenalog v.18.0.4, numbered to facilitate
further discussion):
* 1) Freeware
* 2) Cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux
* 3) Automation of time indexing,
* 4) Feature of searching , backwards and forwards
* 5) Feature of parsing, -producing a file of all timeindexed
lines (with n lines before n lines after) where a word or a glyph appeared in
the accumulated diary
* 6) Integration with calendar (for fast access to previous
days in accumulated day-cards – for swift brief quoting to calendar –and for
reminders, to be quoted on opening a specific later day)
* 7) Integration with address book, (with search function)
* 8) Options for quoting to and from the diary
* 9) Options for easy assembling time-stamped notes/quotes in
a large number of separate accumulating thematic fields - be it symptoms,
promises, books read, films seen, passwords and pin-codes to be remembered,
relatives, collaborators etc
* 10) Option for printing text of any accumulated thematic
field
* 11) Options to print full diary text from single day or
span of days
* 12) Option to supplement text-entries with entries of
pictograms (Glyphs) for recurrent typicality’s of situations, actions and events
in everyday life, as a kind of shorthand,
* 13) Option for personally selecting which pictograms from
an expanding library of glyphs user finds it worth to use screen space for on
his/her intra-personal dialogue –scene.
* 14) Options for user to alter and redesign the interface
* 15) That diary automatically - for each day - accumulates a
row in a table of data from
a) daily counts of use of selected glyphs (e.g. medicine,
alcohol, cigarette,)
b) typed physiological data (e.g. blood pressure, weight,
temperature)
c) typed word-described symptoms or other cue words: e.g.
weather.
* 16) The option for user to create links (for single days-
or permanently) to any file, folder or program/application in the laptop. (Use
of such links automatically to be indicated in the diary to make the personal
information-handling more transparent in its time-perspectives).
* 17) Functionalities for email by clicking e-mail address
and for visiting homepages by clicking it, on namecards within ones own virtual
address book
* 18) Inclusion of browser functionality enabling user to
accumulate and organize Internet bookmarks in 2D and 2 ˝ D cognitive maps. (Use
of such links also automatically to be indicated in the diary)
* 19) Accumulation of a single, daily growing, Journal
htm.file, containing the content of diary text of consecutive days
* 20) A superordinate metacognitive field/file, permitting
time indexed quotes from any previous daycard and reflective comments
* 21) An option for any user to publish a clone of the
program as designed for a chosen target-group, e.g. pre-distribution of most
relevant glyph-buttons, hiding unnecessary features for that group and naming
thematic fields for the expected needs of that group.
* 22) An option for any user to offer and cooperate on
developing a translation of the user-interface to other languages.
* 23) An option for any user to suggest/co-design new glyphs,
found to be missing
* 24) A forum, accessible to all users, to discuss their
experience, problems met, and ideas for improvement.
* 25) A “Hide-button” which immediately empties the screen
for any trace of the diary, except its shortcut on the bottom panel, meaning
that its use can alternate with all other uses of the computer, while quickly
hidden, if others approach to inspect the laptop screen.
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26) A retro option to insert text&glyphs to earlier times same day, - to the
extent user cares to detail the chronology of the day
* 27) An annotation option , enabling time-indexed reflection/commentary to be
inserted after any line in the diary ( I dont know, whether this can be
considered as the tagging Janice Ropers suggests, - else quoting to the
superordinate metacognitive field (20) is another tagging-option
* 28) Supplementary backgrounds, one click away, for logical distribution of
glyphbuttons on backgrounds like: virtual body, virtual home, virtual garden,
virtual neighbourhood, virtual workplace etc.---
* 29) One thematic field is constructed as a (resortable) table: The personal
treasure of usernames, accountnumbers, accesscodes, passwords & pincodes
* 30): Options for updating the count of cigarettes, drinks & medicine
* 31) Option for suspending the time-indexing, - usefull when user wants to
compose a letter, a poem, a response to a discussion etc
* 32) Automatic saving at user defined intervals
* 33) Option for extensive hiding unwanted fields and functions
* 34) Automatic backups for last three complete diary savings
* 35) Installer for windows
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All these features are realized in the latest version of “Phenomenalog