patagoniadave
2006-08-10, 12:42 PM
(warning this is a random thought, totally unresearch)
Ok, I was sitting in class yesterday learning about keynotes, not really paying attention because we don't use them. The intructor, almost in passing, showed us the three tag options, with a box, without a box, and text instead of numbers. Whoa, all of a sudden I was paying rapt attention and scribbling furiously in my notebook. Text instead of the numbers? I started having a fantasy about never having to annotate a set ever again, which is probablly my least favorite thing to do in acad. In my fantasy a little upfront legwork assigning information to materials, and playing around with the family, and I could account for 90 percent of notes that may come up, and be able to willy nilly add notes just by touching things in my drawing. Even better, I could "gasp" have a note in more than one place in a set and never have to worry if I found them all when it changed.
So, I know I am not the first person to think this would be very cool, is there a good blog or post where I can read about what others are doing along these lines? I think detail components would be the tricky part? Thanks for any help or thoughts.
Ok, I was sitting in class yesterday learning about keynotes, not really paying attention because we don't use them. The intructor, almost in passing, showed us the three tag options, with a box, without a box, and text instead of numbers. Whoa, all of a sudden I was paying rapt attention and scribbling furiously in my notebook. Text instead of the numbers? I started having a fantasy about never having to annotate a set ever again, which is probablly my least favorite thing to do in acad. In my fantasy a little upfront legwork assigning information to materials, and playing around with the family, and I could account for 90 percent of notes that may come up, and be able to willy nilly add notes just by touching things in my drawing. Even better, I could "gasp" have a note in more than one place in a set and never have to worry if I found them all when it changed.
So, I know I am not the first person to think this would be very cool, is there a good blog or post where I can read about what others are doing along these lines? I think detail components would be the tricky part? Thanks for any help or thoughts.