I sent theApplication out to get pizza, so I have some time to articulate without it’s constant interruptions.
First, thanks to Amorya, step, Kobayashi, wynlyndd. I really appreciate your input and I am trying my best to take your suggestions to heart.
I think I may have a new name for “Pile o Cards”—SavantCarde.
Savant - a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar
Avant Garde - the advance group in any field, esp. in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods
Card - a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder
(all from dictionary.com)
So: Savantcarde. or SavantCarde. or Savant Carde. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
Going through this naming process has helped me to coalesce my thoughts a little better about what the application is:
Cards are a good metaphor. As long as we understand the idea of them containing anything which can reside on the system. (text, media, applications, scripts, etc.)
Savant means that the cards are smart! They can recognize types of data and sort through information. (automatic information recognition engine (AIRE) - attention: marketing people.) This means they can intelligently filter addresses, bibliographic information, tabular data. In this regard “stacks” of cards can function as databases, with really simple front ends but the ability to organize and sort data intelligently.
But this also means that cards can contain all different kinds of scripts, Automator actions and application specific “hooks” (thanks wynlyndd) which are just waiting to process the information on other cards or stacks of cards.
Again, if we remember that “information” means anything that can reside on the system, we start to break out of the database analogy, although that seems to me a good underlying foundation.
Avant Garde. I really want this to remain experimental and somewhat abstract. (The application, not my description of it.) I am most interested in how this can help to push the creative process. For instance, I would love to be able to do things in Adobe Illustrator, and have SavantCarde be sending bits of it to Photoshop and screwing with it somehow. I also envision this as a non-sequential writer’s tool (or brainstorming tool) with the ability to hold and link a variety of information and find new ways that it would connect. (And then stick it into Word or Inspiration as an outline) I also am excited in the way I can see this as a useful media hub, for processing, organizing, keeping a library.
More to come.
And your feed back is much appreciated.
Pizza here, gotta go.
Robert
