LibraryView (testing, ideas, and feedback needed)

[jessegrosjean]

Thanks for trying it out, and glad you like the idea.

@HYR

Is it possible to implement a library view like Ulysses and Quiver? So the Library and groups are on the left and the documents are in the next pane to the right and the editor is in the pane to the right of that.

Possible… but I don’t think that view works well for my apps/preferences:

1. I don’t like that style… those views confuse me! I like to understand what and where my files are… I see them as the underlying unit of organization and work. But with fully source list style UI’s like Notes.app or Ulysses.app filesystem information is all hidden away. I’m not actually sure if either of those apps stores files on disk, or hidden away in a database. I’ve tried to design my sidebar to be a very strait forward view of the Finder.

2. An important feature of my apps is the existing sidebar generated from the document content–currently showing projects, searches, tags. Ulysses doesn’t have that, so following the Ulysses design means that my apps would need the 3 Ulysses panels, plus one more to show that extra list. I think that’s to many.