(cool) Hector wrote:
Which rich text functions do you need? If it's bold, italic, underlined, and hyperlinks, maybe we could use html tags like with this forum.
Html tags should work fine. In addition to bold, italic, underline, and hyperlinks, it would also be helpful to have bullets and numbered lists.
(cool) Hector wrote:
I doubt that Coollector will someday become an elaborate text editor.
That's fine. I'm not expecting it to.
(cool) Hector wrote:
Why would someone write a script for a new movie in the MyPlot field of an existing movie? MyPlot doesn't mean it's your own script, it just means that it's a plot different from the one provided by our movie database.
Yes, of course. I wasn't trying to suggest that authors would write scripts in Coollector. I was only trying to suggest that writers will appreciate being able to add their own writing to the database.
(cool) Hector wrote:
Maybe it's because I'm not a writer myself, but I don't see the point of all this.
Well, I don't have any hard evidence to prove that my point applies to anyone other than myself, but my basic idea is that Coollector includes better support for writers than its competitors, which suggests to me that you might want to emphasize Coollector's support for writers in your marketing copy.
For example, after I watch a movie, I like to think about it. When I think, I like to write. But because I do so much writing, it's all too easy to lose track of what I've written or where my writing is located. Coollector helps me with those problems because I know that my writing about movies and television are filed away in my movie and TV database (Coollector). Then, if I want to watch another movie, I know exactly where to find my notes about movies I've already seen. After reviewing them in Coollector, I can use the database functions in Coollector to identify the next movie I want to watch.
If I write in Coollector about every movie I see, in a few weeks, months, and years, Coollector will be as much a database of my writing about movies and television as it is a database of the shows themselves. Gradually, as I review my writing in Coollector, I identify themes that I want to develop in greater length in longer pieces of writing elsewhere.
In other words, in addition to remaining a robust database of shows that can be used equally well for either entertainment or research purposes, Coollector can also become like a notebook or journal about those shows. Most writers use notebooks and journals to sketch out their ideas before committing them to writing in greater depth later.
So, I'm not proposing that Coollector try to become a text editor. I'm just saying that if you keep developing support for writers (through exporting, rich text, and hyperlinks), more writers are going to become interested in Coollector because it has built-in support for our workflow.
Must not there be other writers out there who would appreciate these functions in Coollector?