Read Thread: Geographic "Notes"
Geographic "Notes"
Board: Suggestion Box
Jan 25, 2009 12:02pm
I really like the Notes feature -- very useful for solving Mystery clues in advance, and storing the solution for later.
What would be REALLY slick, would be to have an additional "Geographic Note", that allows me to input the address (or city, whatever) of the box, similar to Notes where it is only visible to me.
And, that "Geographic Note" would be searchable just like the actual box address... like it would override the box address. So, if I figure out that box X is a few towns over, next time I do a search for boxes near that town, box X would pop up on the list, show up on the map, etc. Obviously most mystery boxes won't show up when doing a local search, especially Mystery, State, or Mystery,Mystery boxes. Plus many boxes have a starting address that is just approximate.
Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to do a search for all boxes that I've written a personal note in -- that way, if I'm travelling, I could check that list for any nearby boxes. (yes, I know tags would be the way to do this, but I always forget to set tags, and what my tag colors mean!). Even better would be the ability to search within my notes -- i.e. search for text in all notes I've written. So, if I'm travelling to New York, I could search notes for NY, and then any mystery boxes that I've written out the address for in NY would pop up, a smaller list at least that I could then go through manually to see if they are near.
What would be REALLY slick, would be to have an additional "Geographic Note", that allows me to input the address (or city, whatever) of the box, similar to Notes where it is only visible to me.
And, that "Geographic Note" would be searchable just like the actual box address... like it would override the box address. So, if I figure out that box X is a few towns over, next time I do a search for boxes near that town, box X would pop up on the list, show up on the map, etc. Obviously most mystery boxes won't show up when doing a local search, especially Mystery, State, or Mystery,Mystery boxes. Plus many boxes have a starting address that is just approximate.
Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to do a search for all boxes that I've written a personal note in -- that way, if I'm travelling, I could check that list for any nearby boxes. (yes, I know tags would be the way to do this, but I always forget to set tags, and what my tag colors mean!). Even better would be the ability to search within my notes -- i.e. search for text in all notes I've written. So, if I'm travelling to New York, I could search notes for NY, and then any mystery boxes that I've written out the address for in NY would pop up, a smaller list at least that I could then go through manually to see if they are near.
Re: Geographic "Notes"
Board: Suggestion Box
Reply to: #342320 by BumblebeeBunny
Jan 25, 2009 12:22pm
Interesting idea. I've pretty much given up on mysteries since 99% of the mysteries turn out to be too far from me, so it ends up being a waste of time figuring them out. I'd like some way to narrow them down (if the lister wanted) to all the mysteries in my county. Maybe there is and I just don't know it.
Re: Geographic "Notes"
Board: Suggestion Box
Reply to: #342320 by BumblebeeBunny
Jan 25, 2009 2:23pm
That's an intriguing idea..... =)
-- Ryan