User notes (like the existing user tag system, but with a larger text box) [Feature request]

ProlificAxons commented 9 years ago

User tagging is great, but I'd love to be able to make reminder notes about specific users. It would be awesome if a paragraph's worth of text (or more) could be saved/edited by clicking a new button next to the "tag" button.

r/Toolbox has a great usernotes feature, but that only works for a single subreddit, and it can only be used by moderators.

Because usernotes would be added manually, I hope that they wouldn't use much of RES's data storage capacity.

What non-moderators might use an extended usernotes feature in RES for

Keeping track of people you need to respond to in the next few days, and what your response to them is about
Keeping track of what aspects of a subreddit a moderator manages (if the moderators have divided duties)
Making notes about why you ignored or friended someone
Keeping track of online meetup times and alternate user IDs for games
Keeping track of important posts by a user (e.g. frequently edited/updated selfposts about needed assistance/advice, selfposts about a user's personal preferences in NSFW subreddits)
Keeping track of verification links (such as when consent is required in NSFW subreddits - e.g. couples' photo or audio verifications) - This is important for general users as well as mods

jewel-andraia commented 9 years ago

@creesch informs me that toolbox's notes are either "personal scratchpad" or "shared mod notes on a particular user". So, it sounds like there's still a need for "user tag extended description"

jewel-andraia commented 9 years ago

Let's clarify the requests. So far I see:

extended text attached to user tag (let's say it can be parsed as snudown and displayed in the user info hover pop-up)
reminders attached to user

ProlificAxons commented 9 years ago

I was using "reminders" in a general sense - like writing "WoW Raid Leader for Jan10/2014 6pmCST" in the extended textbox. I think that adding individual hover-reminder notes would be cool, but they could also get extremely cluttered (in the UI/icon sense, and in the fact of having a ton of separate dialog boxes to manage). It seems simpler to me to just have a single expanded textbox.

Edit: Also, I'm not asking for stylization options. I'm happy with just writing on one continuous line without things like paragraph breaks (though the ability to start a new line within the textbox would be a nice bonus).

Example

Submitted verification post at (httplink) on Jan7/2014 -- Personal user scratchpad post at (httplink) updated frequently -- Email address is (address), Skype ID is (Skype) -- Friended May16/2014 after a long discussion about (details of discussion) ++ Moderator at (httplink), needs help with CSS - hope to get (CSS code description) completed and offered as a draft by Jan27/2015 ++ Will be at (subreddit event - live chat) on Feb2/2015 - find a video clip to lighten the mood if that night is stressful

jewel-andraia commented 8 years ago

How about this spec:

Change the user tag text from a one-line text input to a multi-line text area.
(Make user tagger form a little taller and wider.)
For displaying tags, only show the first line of text inline. If there's more than one line of text, add ... at the end. (Maybe better to implement in JS than CSS.)
Show multi-line tags on tag's title (hover tooltip). Make sure line breaks work.

honestbleeps commented 8 years ago

Not sure about the first line thing personally. What about just two fields.... Tag and note?

Anything that requires the user to think / memorize a formatting convention may ultimately lead to confusion, tech support requests etc.

Imagine a user types a really long first line as a result of seeing the bigger field. Well get an ellipsis request right away because they didn't realize they can hit enter to break off the tag.

On Oct 2, 2016 1:31 PM, "Andy Tuba" notifications@github.com wrote:

How about this spec:

Make user tagger form larger

Change the user tag text from a one-line text input to a multi-line text area.

For displaying tags, only show the first line of text inline. If there's more than one line of text, add ... at the end. (Maybe better to implement in JS than CSS.)

Show multi-line tags on tag's title (hover tooltip). Make sure line breaks work.

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jewel-andraia commented 8 years ago

We could also add the text-overflow: ellipsis (optional, default on) to that first line right off the bat.. :trollface:

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User notes (like the existing user tag system, but with a larger text box) [Feature request] #1913