On 14 Feb 2008, at 17:09, Tim Madden wrote: I'm unbelievably late in responding to this - sorry!
> I looked at the manual + associated docs and found that they are > very thorough and strong improvement over the prior. Thanks! > A few things I noted in my read through: > • No mention of installation on Linux. There is a solid guide here > for 1.043: > http://www.cooldown.com.ar/2006/12/16/install-tracks-on-ubuntu-or-debian/ > . Maybe it could be updated with the particulars of the 1.5 and a > link added to take users there? c00i90wn you out there? The best > would be to package it as a .deb or .rpm and then it would be a snap. That would be great if someone could update that. I'm not a Linux expert, so I'm probably not up to dealing with the details myself. However, if someone could come up with a chunk of helpful text, I'll update the manual with it. > • in the section for upgrading the 1.043 database to 1.5, I think > it could be more explicit that this is to take a 1.043 database to > 1.5. I mentions it in the section above that links to here, but if > the user did not come from there, they might not have seen it. > Here: /tracks/doc/manual.html#rake_upgrade Good point. > • The manual should make mention that the application support > mobile access for installations accessible from the internet. The > URL ishttp://yourdomain.com/mobile/ . Also, it would be good to show > some information on the applications preferences page as to what the > link is. Better mobilizing this app could be a powerful growth area > for the project. Agreed. Though I'm also planning a screencast which would cover this. I do also now mention it on the project home page as one of the features - but you're right - it could be more prominent. > • One area that I think we could grow this documentation area into > is user instruction. The best might be if we put together a video > tutorial or two. It could walk the user through adding a couple > actions, projects and contexts etc. The great part of tracks is it > does need much in instruction, but it might put new users at ease > and speed adoption. Does anyone know of any good screen capture > software (open source hopefully :) that would be need for the video > part? Absolutely. I bought a copy of Screenflow with Tracks donations (since we don't seem to be getting much closer to our goal of buying laptops, it seemed a good intermediate buy for the project), and I'm in the process of making a few screencasts. I'm going to do an introductory one covering the basics of starting with an empty database, moving around the interface, adding projects, contexts and actions etc. Then I was going to cover more specific stuff like tags, the stats page and the mobile interface. But if anyone else wants to create some, I'd be happy to host them. Rather than releasing whole new minor versions of Tracks with updated manuals, I think it would be a good idea to update the HTML manual on the site and the downloadable PDF manual linked on that page, then include the changes on the next point release of Tracks. cheers, bsag -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
