Use cases for Substance Notepad

[michael]

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• Meeting notes
• Idea brainstorming
• Prototyping of grant proposals
• Write simple proposals (esp. if we have little calcsheets)

Questions:

• Is it desirable to use it for full-fledged documents too (vs only for quick notes).
• How important is it to be able to print a pad
• Should it be possible to share a read-only version (that has a different sha)

[Integral]

Regarding print. If you really think of grant proposals prototyping than it most be rather exportable (you can later print exported file).

[michael]

For many situations copy and pasting to MS word will also do the job for printing.

[obuchtala]

For the meetings use-case I brainstormed with Enikö:

• in a meeting new ideas are discussed (regular prose + images)
• tasks are defined (potentially with due date, priority, and person assignment)
• progress is discussed -> what has happened since last time
• During debriefing things are refined, more tasks created, and assigned and priorised

The aim is to monitor progress, as well to have a simple means for the different participants to see what has been discussed, and which work has been assigned. It is a very light-weight version of task-management.

Some dynamic views improve the work:

• monitoring the progress since last meeting
• show my tasks

[obuchtala]

For the proposal/specification use-case:

• content is more central
• tasks play just a minor role, still they are handy
• it's more a document which needs to be easy to read and edit, and finally exported.
• only content should be exported, no tasks or comments

[Frando]

For the brainstorming use-case being able to comment and/or +1 on paragraphs would be really handy. Also being able to visually expand / collapse sections (similar, but more simple, than e.g. workflowy does it).

And a UI toggle to show / hide author colors (like in etherpad) would also be nice to see who has written what.