Some suggestions

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Miguel

14 Jul, 2012 02:52 PM

Hi there.
First of all, english is not my primary language, so I will make some mistakes or make phrases difficult to understand. Sorry about that, and please if you have any doubt just write me.
I've using Mental Case intensively during the this last academic year. I'm a medical student, and my results using this program were excellent. Doing and studying almost 6000 notes allowed me to detect some flaws in the program, and miss some features I'm going to share with you and hoping you will consider them.
- The program really needs a printing option to allow print the notes as a list, so you can have a quick reference for review. The option that almost do that is "8 by 2", but the number of notes in a page is low and the text is too small. I've tried exporting to comma or tab separated field and print in other programs like Excel, but it's messy when you have notes with more than one line (as do almost all my notes). I have to say, I really need this option to review subjects I'm studying now in future courses. - The program lacks a way to "preview" or "inspect" a note, something like "quick look". If I'm in list view in the library (which is the most useful view when you have a lot of notes) and I want to see the note, because it has an image or the text exceeds the space, now I have to enter the note to edit mode, and even then the image is really small or I have to navigate to see all the text. The only way I now to see a note in a proper way is entering study mode and search it, which is slow and tedious. - There is a little bug in the custom study menu: in advanced options, shuffled order is activated for defect, but expanding the menu reveals that "order in stack" is also active. If you in fact want to activate "order in stack" you must select first shuffled (so now it is the one activated only) and then select "order in stack". It's not a big deal, but maybe you can correct it. - Being able to study only flagged items in a stack (or a case, even better) is missing, and it would be an awesome option to review important notes from a subject. - Maybe this is stupid, but I think it would be useful, during studying, using a slideshow mode, as a "repass/revise mode". That also, I think, would allow to program better the time for study in "some of those crazy moments during the day". - In the list view if the answer has lines than doesn't fit they are set immediately after the last line that fits, which would be really good if there was a separator of some kind (a symbol or something). There is another weird thing I've noticed. I guess it has a purpose I don't get, but in the list view the last 2-3 letters of the text, when it doesn't fit the vertical space, is substituted by three dots even if there is room to print it on the screen.

Well, I think thats all. I hope you don't get mad. Overall I think the program is awesome and is helping me through my studies just as it is, but with some modifications I think it would be perfect (for me at least). Also, I know it is impossible to create a program that fits all the users. I only hope you find that some of my suggestions useful.

Best regards.
Miguel

  1. 1 Posted by support on 16 Jul, 2012 06:58 AM

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    Hi Miguel

    Thank you so much for all the suggestions, we'll definitely look into them.

    Sofia
    The Mental Faculty Support

  2. support closed this discussion on 16 Jul, 2012 06:58 AM.

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