Current bugs and Things To Do for SBook

SBook5.0 Roadmap

Last updated July 8^th, 2003

SBook5 is a work in progress. I have the following goals for SBook 5:

· Synchronization between multiple SBook files. (probably with a server-based solution)

· Printing 1,2 and 3-fold address books

· Better handling of envelopes

· Better support on the SBook website.

Current bugs in SBook (some will be fixed prior to version 5.1)

· SBook should not print mailing labels for entries that don’t have addresses.

· Properly handle multi-line paste when “Name XXXX” is selected. (Only the first line should go in bold, the rest should go on second line.).

· Optionally confirm delete

· Simson L. Garfinkel, M.S. doesn’t smart-sort properly.

· Dial literally for bold doesn’t work, reportedly.

· Only highlight search results on full-text search

· Dialing in the “special exchange” doesn’t work, reportedly.

· Apply Template needs to set ruler & color also.

Features planned for 5.1 Release:

· Improve SBook List: optionally show *date each entry was created, modified, or accessed; * First phone number; *First email address.

· Validate XML file after it is written

· Change font of list

· Properly import all vCards

· Properly implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, and Replace

· International dialing for UK-style numbers.

· Display all dates in book

· Remove duplicate entries

· Combine entries with same name.

· Display first phone number and/or first email in search field.

· Regression testing for parser

Printing:

· Private entries should work, and be encrypted.

· barcodes on labels, as an option

· Improved envelope printing

· printing 1-fold, 2-fold and 3-fold address books

Nice to have:

· Add Asian cities to address book (would somebody send me a list?)

· Have the MD5 of the ASCII data on save. On load, if it doesn’t match, throw away the base64 data, as it is wrong (because the ascii was modified).

Wish list for SBook5.2 Release

· Ability to specify Person/Company choice.

· Alternatively, ability to load new keywords.

· control-click on a URL or email address change what the icon does.

· Sync with Multiple SBook books. Search other books with Rendevouze.

· Need to load faster; replace current Person object with libsbook-style object.

· Merge entries with same name.

· Envelope Printing:

· Logging for envelope printing

· Replace ZIP with ZIP+4 by consulting USPS service.

· Different icons for different kinds of phone numbers.

· Handle more envelope types.

· Parsing when more than one entry is displayed at a time.

· native read-write of InfoGenie files. (as opposed to import/export.)

· Show commonly-seen entries.

· Specify # of lines into each entry for search

· Need to add a "not US" flag which disables parsing ###/#### as a phone number.

· Things-to-do and things-done in entry.

Beyond release 5.2:

· If there is only one entry displayed, hitting space in the Search field should do a page down in the entry

· Palm Pilot conduit

· categories

· Option to remove all leading white space and ">"'s on Services.

· Export to VCard needs to have an option --- all to the same file.

· Find within an entry

· Report Parser Error window

· encrypted entries (as opposed to having the entire file encrypted.)

· LDAP reading and publishing.

· Auto-capitalize

Known bugs in SBook 5.0 that will not be fixed:

· Dragging in a file in other than an image just drags in the icon associated with the file, not the file itself. This appears to be a problem with the Apple NSTextView object; please complain to Apple).

· Sending mail, send mail to “username <user@place.com>" instead of user@place.com. (Appears to be bug in Apple Mail.app API).

· Views 5-digit PO Boxes as zip codes in some cases.

SBook5 website