Hi Kim,

Thanks for the mail. I allow myself to CC this email to the PoyNote mailing list, to share our discussion with others.

Here come the answers:

> Hello!
>
> The last time I wrote you, I had a Sony Clie' that crashed when using
> PolyNote. I recently upgraded to a Zire 72 and am glad I can now use
> your program!
>
> I had a question and a couple suggestions.
>
> My question is: what is the icon? I can see a man and a woman
> holding tall objects in some sort of vase? I was curious if there's
> a story to it.

I mentionned somewhere sometime long ago: it comes from the decoration on top of ancient Vietnamese bronze drums. They are doing some short of rice crushing. For better explanation (officials ones, not those that come from an tech guy), you should do some research on the net.
>
> Also, in using the program, there are three suggestions I'd like to
> make. First would be to allow users with an alarms database to be
> able to select their custom alarms, similar to what DiddleBug (the
> program I switched to PN from) does.

You mean you want to be able to select which is the alarm sound? If yes, it is already in the todo list.
>
> The other is to be able to allow users to manually order the notes as
> they'd like them to be. I understand this may not be possible, as
> I'm friends with the developer of Progect and he very intelligently
> explained to me some of the coding involved often doesn't allow for
> that sort of thing easily.

I will add this to the todo list.
>
> The last one is to make sure a person can use their old notes in a
> new update. It's a scary thought to rely on a program only to have
> it tell you to re-input information at every update...and doubly
> frustrating if it had some sort of update a person really wanted! :-)

I'm aware of this problem. I myself use the app in a regular basis for keeping important informations. It is painful for me as well each time I have to change the database format.

However, I consider the app in its beta stage, and thus the database format is not yet stabilized, that's why I spend more time on developing new features other than maintaining compatibilities with old ones.
Please grant me some more time to finalize all the planned things, and I will add the code to maintain the backward compatibilities with older versions.

Just a small note: The next version of this app will allow you to export the items' data as external card files (ie. text file for text and table items, probably JPG/PNG file for drawings as well if I can work it out). I expect that such feature would be, first, a way to maintain precious data against eventual instability of this app, against "unwanted" :-) database format change, and second, a way to manipulate the PolyNote data on the PC.
>
>
> I did note you were planning for Hi-Res already, so I won't ask for
> that...I'll just add my vote. :-)

That is coming, that is coming :-)

>
> Thank you for the work you've put in...great program with lots of
> potential to grow!
>
> Kim :-)
>
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