Hi, I would like to propose a new idea for open office. I believe that the "save as" feature is out of date and for it to be replaced with "journals".
This is a simple idea let me explain. Whenever you are starting a new document or opening an existing document it should open up a window called your "journal" this will organize, tag, index, sort, whatever all your documents and provide the user with every single change that has taken place in your document, what time that change took place and possible even with more than one user working on the document it could show who made the changes. The advantages of this is the ablitiy to find what your after within a document easily, compare documents easily!, take note of all your changes in your document and be able to revert to any time and see that state of the document then, no more worrying about where you kept your documents, no need to back up your documents anymore. Situation 1: You are working on a big letter to a long lost friend. You originally wrote down what you did that weekend and how your family is, you take a coffee break and return to find you no longer want to include what your family is up to and remove it and instead wrote about your career. Later that afternoon you return to your letter and you find you in fact do want to include how your family is.. if you didnt "save as" a backup, you would now have to retype all that. but with journals you simply open up your journal flick back or rewind to the date/time you previously added how your family was (which will be automatically done noting every change) then copy it into your current new document and send away!! Situation 2: You are writing a large business proposal removing, adding, editing, (fonts colours etc) all your text very frequently and your are consistently getting new input from other people. With journals you will no longer have to "save as" a frequent back up every small or large change without worrying if it should or should not fit with the final copy, you will no longer have to open lots of previous backups to find that small change you later removed that suddenly became necessary. Instead of lots of saved documents you will have just one journal. The journal will record every single change and you can rewind through time to grab any changes you have previously made, you can search for changes compare what differences you have made throughout the time on working on the document. It will help in many scenarios that are similar! Dont waste time wishing you had backed up your previous document or waste time searching through many backed up documents to find the right change.. instead skip through time with the journal.. Thanks open office team, get back to me if you decided to use my idea or anything similar cause i wanna know for self satisfaction. -- - Tama
