Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Version 0.6 works well now!!

Cheers

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

I'll add my three cents and say that scout would be a perfect app to become a "global search" of a device. Just a simple and convenient app to search many different (yet configurable) content types across the device - including applications, bookmarks, maybe even files (although that might be an overkill). I think it would be particularly bad idea to create separate apps for contact/messages search, separate for application search, separate for bookmarks etc. It's not a kind of user experience users (including me) generally expect.

I am anxious everytime I need to launch an app from my applications list, as there are zillions of icons not sorted in any manner. Frankly speaking, the ideal solution for me would be implementing a simple type-ahead search in just that view, so I tap upper-left corner of screen, all app icons show up and then I start typing name of desired application. Having Scout doing that type of search across applications and perhaps bookmarks would make my day.

Anyway, it's your app, your decision which way you want to follow, and ultimately we have very little to say. It's only about you hearing our voices (or not).

Update: I didn't read the whole thread through, I've only discovered Scout by accident (browsing through apps submitted to competition) and first thing I wanted to discover is whether it does support applications search.

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Mh, yes... A good Idea. I would like to see searching for Bookmarks in Scout, too. :rolleyes:

Hmm... good Idea, but I'm afraid to say Scout wouldn't manage it this way... and I don't think it is a good idea to integreate it into Scout. :(

It's a hildon thing. Perhaps what about creating a Bug report, feature request against the hildon desktop and report it to Nokia?

Hmm... okay, I guess they won't do it... but plugins at the app launcher are, as far as I know, also not possible. :(

Perhapt a Widget could do it in a comfortable way?

What about asking the programmer of ApMeFo? :)

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

I am not saying Scout should do exactly it this way - that was just my "ideal" solution. I'm happy for Scout to be a separate application (ie. not integrated directly with system UI) as long as it can browse through applications.

Besides, creating internal index of launchable applications should be easy, isn't it?

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

App Search Widget

nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

You have made my day, thanks!

Btw, you should update your signature. ;)

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Oookay, my proposal was at the 26. July 2010 and you announced it at the 23. of July... you own a time machine, aren't you? :D

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

The current version 0.0.6 is in extras-testing.
Please test and vote for it.

New features will be added after the coding competition is over.

Upcoming features:
restrict calendar search by entry type,
(search only notes, or tasks, or events)
restrict calendar and conversation search by time
(search last x days, week, month, year or other
timeframe

maybe?
restrict conversation search by contacts
edit calendar entries
(for example, use the detail view for notes to
edit and save it, the same for events and tasks?)

Further ideas or suggestions?

regards
Nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

What about restrict calendar search based on calendar? :)

I've got several calendars. Maybe I want only to search in my private calendar and not at my work calendar?


And my next suggestion is to show up some settings in the result window before the search.
Mmmh... do you understand what I mean? :D

Startup Scout. You have in the middle a empty space where the results are shown after the search. If I want to search only my contacts I have to go now into the settings, deselect all expect the contacts. Go to the main screen again and apply the search.

With my suggestion the user has only to start up the application, click on the settings he want in the middle of the screen, has to enter in the bottom what he wants to search and after the search has began the settings will disappear and in this area the results are shown up.

This will improve the procedure enormously. If the user want's to change his setting after the first search he has to go to the settings as in the actual implementation.

What do you think? :)

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Yes, this is/ will be part of the calendar search option,
search only in specific calendars.


Yes, I already play with this option in my developer version. Three toggle buttons at top of the window to toggle search categories.
But they stay there, and the result list is a little bit smaller.

regards
nicolai