@eastgate Thank you for replying so promptly to my message, and for showing interest in how I would like to use Tinderbox.
When I wrote my original message, my immediate aim was to keep a record of notes I have viewed recently, as a memory-jog to help me when I’m writing up my work progress in my journal or preparing progress reports for my manager. In DEVONthink, I accomplish this by using Smart Groups to review files I’ve viewed today or this week. If a colleague distracts me with a question and to help them I need to look up a PDF or an email in DEVONthink, I don’t need to take extra time to note this down before continuing with my work. This is a great time-saver, and I would love to be able to do it with note-level granularity.
I do have some other ideas for how I would like to use this feature. Off the top of my head, here are some other possible uses:
- I’d love to implement a note-history agent as a navigational aid to help me quickly jump back and forth between recently-consulted notes.
- I’d like to keep a record of notes frequently viewed within five or ten minutes of each other which aren’t otherwise linked, so I can be prompted to consider whether to formally link them or combine them.
- I’d like to see a list of notes I haven’t viewed since creating them, so I can consider whether they’re still useful to me.
- It could be useful to me to implement more complex cosmetic “ageing” of notes than that which is available natively in Tinderbox.
- This is a slightly more job-specific goal and a little tricky to abstract, but given an arbitrary software feature, I’d like to view a list of notes concerning the feature that I last viewed before a historical change to the feature about which I’ve belatedly become aware. (I’m sure this sounds contrived, but I can promise you that all technical authors are familiar with this scenario!)
I can think of ways I might accomplish some of these aims using Keyboard Maestro, although this would introduce maintenance cost and extra potential for human error. I would find it so useful to be able to implement some of this functionality within Tinderbox itself using OnVisit and $Visits.
I’ve since read @mwra’s response and will respond separately — but assuming this isn’t something Tinderbox can do at present, will you please consider this message a feature request for OnVisit functionality?
Thank you again for your help,
Gabi