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I like to stay organized so with the old site I would copy and paste my reviews in OneNote. I would categorize them by work  and reviewer for later reference. The new site makes it harder and in places prohibits this process. I love the in-line reviews but they're impractical for my old method. So a feature I'd like to see, is the ability organize the reviews we give and receive. Icons are nice for the latest but a list is more informative when you get into the hundreds.

How about the ability to download reviews in a Word or CSV format? It's a bit more complicated for in-line reviews but we're thinking of a couple of different ways to do it.

Sol

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If you're going to offer downloads, how about an open document format?

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If you're going to offer downloads, how about an open document format?

Sure, good idea.

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njc wrote:

If you're going to offer downloads, how about an open document format?

That would be really useful.

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Where do I find responses from the author to reviews I give?

Memphis Trace

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On the list of new works for review, could we add the date when it was put up and the chapter and revision, if any?  Just to help us keep track?

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When you are displaying a multi-chapter work for reading/review, the chapter scroll bar at the top is full width.  The one below is flanked by Previous and Next buttons.  Could we make the top bar like the bottom bar?  I suppose this might count as simplification, too, but I chose to put the request here.

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On the messages page(s) there's a button marked 'sort'.  You have to push it to find that it reverses the sort order.  Could we change it please so that experimentation is not necessary, perhaps by having it read either 'Sort Newest First' or 'Sort Oldest First' according to what it's ready to do?

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Could we skip the BasicInfo/Cover/Content/Publish dance when we are just updating chapters?  When I go to edit a chapter, I get put into the process to create the whole work.  This might be hard if your data model and matching code aren't just right, so I won't hold my breath.  But when my mind is on the chapter, I don't need to have something demanding that I think about the cover and lose what I'm holding in my mind.

A different kind of enhancement: a 'notebook' that can have multiple 'pages' with titles.  Each page can hold text, images, and most important of all, links, links to forum posts, links to specific chapters of works (these might not be a simple HTML link format, or if they are, they might be formatted for special interpretation), links to things internal and external.

It the 'pages' could further be organized into titled entries, and if an entire entry could be PM'd to another user, it could be especially helpful.  Likewise if a PM received could be routed directly into a notebook entry.

Being able to move entries from page to page would allow the writer to move things not currently needed off into a page for later reference.  Of course, this could be elaborated on indefinitely, but this much would add a nice capability.

Searching on titles and content would flesh the whole thing out.

You've got a lot on your plate now, but I wonder how many other people would find this useful in the long run.