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stefano started following the idea "Duplicate items" in Delicious Monster.

stefano replied on November 01, 2009 14:59 to the idea "Preference to trim the displayed details" in Delicious Monster:

Jessie-that works for books already in the database; then only the details I need remain. But when I scan a new book, I still get the entire list of all possible details, even though I only really care to enter/update/edit (as the case may be) a small fraction of them.

stefano replied on October 22, 2009 20:50 to the idea "Autofill in search" in Delicious Monster:

As I noted in another post, I have a lot of older items with no UPC and so use command-n and then search a lot. Sometimes this gives me a LOT of possible choices. It would be very helpful to be able to sort the choices offered (eg by author, title, date, etc) to make it easier to find the one I want. Again, if I want to add my old, no-UPC copy of Asimov's Foundation and search for "Asimov Foundation" I get a VERY long list of options, including multiple editions of Foundation, plus multiple editions of all the other books in the series, plus academic books that talk about them (you'd be surprised how many). Finding the one I have, or one close enough that I can edit it, is very difficult, particularly as most older versions don't have cover art. Being able to sort this list would make finding the right one immensely easier.

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Sort possible items when searching.

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stefano replied on October 20, 2009 22:07 to the idea "Numbering system" in Delicious Monster:

Well, I for one have numbered series that include more than just a single number. I have series for example, where the numbers are something like 2009-1, 2009-2, etc. If I just drop the "2009" they will sort incorrectly relative to the other books in the same series that are numbered 2008-1, 2008-2, etc. I also have books in a numbered series where the numbers are 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2C, etc. Again, these are not numbers that I'm making up, they're the actual numbers in the series that I need to catalog.

stefano replied on October 09, 2009 20:15 to the question "Sorting by series number" in Delicious Monster:

OK, tried that. It does seem to work -- Thanks.

But it doesn't update automatically, it seems. If I have books sorted by series and then I go in and change the series number of a book, it remains in the same place on the shelf. If I then sort by something else, then return to sort by series, the series are now sorted properly. That's probably why I thought that sort by series wasn't working for me.

stefano replied on October 09, 2009 18:03 to the question "Sorting by series number" in Delicious Monster:

Just to amplify my problem. I have a large collection of French comic books, and many of the series have had different authors over the years. The books themselves are periodically reprinted, so the year of release of the specific copy I have is unrelated to the order of the series. So I need to sort by series, and then by number in series. If there is a way to do this, I cannot see it.

stefano asked a question in Delicious Monster on October 09, 2009 17:58:

Sorting by series number

Sorting by series number seems to sort all issues 1 of all series together, followed by all issues 2 of all series together, and so on. This is seriously not useful. Sorting by series number ONLY makes sense within a series. Is there a way to do this that I am missing?

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stefano replied on October 08, 2009 18:00 to the idea "Preference to trim the displayed details" in Delicious Monster:

Back in NeXT days, I'd occasionally go in and edit the .nib files. These days I'm not that foolhardy. So I guess I'll wait for the DM team to implement this.

stefano replied on October 08, 2009 17:06 to the idea "Return of the 'Recently Added' shelf?" in Delicious Monster:

Yes, but after mass scanning a "recently added" shelf would have, well, a mass of items. So finding only those that need attention would be hard. Better if one could tag the items that need attention, and then have a smart shelf for them. That way it would also catch things you scanned a long time ago and for whatever reason haven't cleaned up yet.

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stefano shared an idea in Delicious Monster on October 08, 2009 14:43:

Autofill in search

I have a LOT of older books that either don't have a UPC code at all, or have one that is no longer recognized and brings up an erroneous item. So I end up using command-n and searching for the item quite a bit. It would be great if the search field here remembered my orevious searches (like the search field in Safari, for example), so that I could select a recent search to re-use, or edit it. For example, I have an old edition of Asimov's Foundation series that has no UPC. To add them, I have to type in "Asimov Foundation" each time (3 times for the original trilogy, 3 for the second one). If the search field worked like Safari's, as soon as I started typing "As..." it would offer me the previous searches that fit that pattern, and I could select one, and then add "second", "and earth" or whatever. Much faster.

stefano shared an idea in Delicious Monster on October 08, 2009 14:37:

Preference to trim the displayed details

In the details pane, there are a great many details that are of absolutely no interest to me, and the long list of possible details makes it hard to find those that are of interest to me. It would be great if there were a preference to turn on or off whether any given detail is displayed in this pane, app-wide.

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stefano replied on October 08, 2009 14:26 to the idea "Return of the 'Recently Added' shelf?" in Delicious Monster:

If the point is to be able to return to items that might have a problem (wrong artwork, whatever), then a recently added shelf isn't the solution. Better would be the ability to tag any new item in some way -- a flag that says "needs attention", or even something more specific ("wrong art" etc). Then a smart shelf would bring all these items up, no matter when they were added.