need help w freeware citizen diary - willing to pay, now with Mega links to the clone
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:51 am
I need help with a freeware laptop citizen diary and I am willing to pay if necessary.
I am an (old) danish researcher in psychology. Since the 70's I have focused on the HOME, the domestic sphere.
At the University of Copenhagen Institute of Psychology I developed an "Experimental home", a small furnished apartment including IT of the time, e.g. timelapse video. With students we built a small physical model of the apartment, where we attempted to develop condensed videos of familymember movements and activities.
This was the context, where the notion of pictograms for homelife activities came up.
The experimental home had to be closed, due to missing funding.
I took the first steps in developing a laptop citizen-diary in 1997.
Several versions has since then been tested, evaluated and reworked.
Credits are due to resources from the communities of "HyperCard" and "Revolution" developers, among these foremost Mark Schonewille (Economy-X-talk.com) Sarah Reichelt and her DateTime.rev collection, Richmond Mathewson for his Paint widgets, Eric Chatonet, Klaus Major, Mark Talluto and others.
The present version 19.8.2 has been in continuous daily use by myself through more than a decade.
It is important that a new user of this application understands the founding principle: that the body-household, the domestic household and the information household are parallel threads of most human's lifeworlds.
And it is important that the design of the clone offers the new user the possibility to furnish and inhabit the standalone after personal taste and preferences.
The freeware clone is meant for all kinds of users in force of its extensive flexibility.
Let me list:
* The diary creates automatically a new daycard with weekday, date, month, year, week-number.
* On return a precise timeadress is written after which the user can write text (in any language!)
* A "RETRO" button offers the user to select an earlier time address for text referring back to earlier in the day.
* Supplementing the use of textwriting the user is offered to install and use pictograms (glyph-buttons) from 12 categories/fonts (Body, Child, Social, Household, Food, Cultivate, Smoke, Info, Outside, Sport, State, Reflection) each of which can be used in different sizes, different colors and with different placements. Those that I considered to be the most relevant are available at-hand on your daycard-window, but can be deleted. All can be attained via the “Glyphs”-menu. Which glyphs are available at-hand, and which glyphs are in the catalogue, can be continuously revised by the user.
* The user can be informed on how to use these features in the "Tricks"-menu.
* Each has an english tooltip that will show, when holding the cursor over the pictogram.
* This is also the case for various other buttons and fields.
* The user can also, via the “Tools”-menu, produce and install text-buttons (in any language) with the same options.
(When clicked they will be copied in the present daycard at the present time. But the user may also insert them at alternative timeadresses by pressing the RETRO-button, for insertion to previous time.)
* A button "Addresses " opens a stack where the user can collect (and search in) addresses, mail and mobile numbers to relevant people, firms or institutions.
* A button "Calendar" is an option for the user to make use of an updatable calendar for remembering events and/or for being reminded of expectancies when a new daycard is opened.
* The "GO" menu gives access to:
Making textdrafts in any language of any length, baptize them, accumulate them and print or copy them to mailsystem.
Mindmapping, producing textbuttons (in any language) and connecting them with lines (This is one of the functions which have to be repaired!)
Go to a specified daycard in the users own diary.
See the result of parsings (The parsing function also have to be repaired)
Go to my cyberspaces, an internet browser connected to one or more pages for the user to assemble links to personally relevant internet-sites in one or more personal cyberspaces.
* Directly below the central window of the daycard there are 5 small fields assembling data for number of cigarettes, number of drinks, number of medicines, length of sleep and time of blodpressure. There are glyphs for cigarettes, drinks, medicine, and two glyphs, one for "sleeping" and one for "stand up", which, when clicked in the following day will count the hours and minutes of sleep. Especially for the three first it is possible, when clicked by the user to update the count manually. The last about bloodpressure relates to a table, which the user can open through a button "Statistics", and input the details of bloodpressure-measuring, pulse, body-temperature, exercise, sugar and weight. This feature can also be used to monitor other functions.
* The lower part of the daycard offers options for accumulating notes to a wide range of user-labelled subjects, friends, family-members, projects, tasks. (38 just numbered buttons, which can be baptized by the user)
* "Detailed preferences" lets the user decide which of these shall be visible on the daycard-window.
* The user is also offered an option for opening a table for collecting own user-names, account numbers, pincodes, passwords etc. Because of the vulnerable character of these data, access to this table is slightly complicated, via a search button, which is normally used for testsearch, parsing and codesearch. But beware the danger of hacking. The most vulnerable data can be omitted and just handwritten on a printout of the table.
WHO - IN ANY COUNTRY - MAY BE MOTIVATED TO START USING SUCH A DIARY?
A) Those whose everyday is complicated by old & new disabilities, aging, chronic diseases, acute illnesses, symptoms, tests, waiting periods, treatments, exercises in physical therapy, medication, therapy, medication side effects, health care, patient transport, appointments, addiction rehab etc.
The tool could serve such users to remember – and document – their experiences.
B) Relatives and personal caretakers for severely disabled and chronically ill patients, who feel responsible for their everyday life, at home or in nursing homes, and thereby not only have to overcome the patient's body care and monitoring, timing and administration of the patient's affairs and agreements, transport and economy - but also - in addition to general and special household (shopping, cooking, cleaning, washing) must administer their own body-household, personal finances and (more or less digitized) information-household (telephone, SMS, email, radio, TV).
C) People who are very much alone, and people who are easily bored.
They may here be provided with a platform to "talk with themselves" and, through recording of their factual around-the-clock experiences, come to look at their own priorities, habits and everyday life in slightly new ways.
This must also apply to persons in programs like AA, and prisoners and clients in institutions for re-education/rehabilitation, where the aim is, that they reflect, change their mind and reach a higher level of self-understanding and mindfulness. Here (as in all contexts) the promise of non-disclosure and privacy will be essential.
D). People who want to learn more about IT and accumulate experiences in developing either basic or higher levels of digital literacy, across the handling of text, images and sound, calendar, contacts, SMS, mail, internet etc.
By opening a 24/7 diary-trail along the everyday life´s journey, where events, challenges, time consumption and general "informationhousehold" is contextualized, the user ensures her/himself at least a marginal documentation-power in face of the offers, demands and allurements of an ever accelerating unscrupulous global information society.
E) People, especially elderly, who have a hard time facing the many obstacles in the IT community, remembering instructions, procedures, PINs and passwords, delays and postponements, due dates and deadlines, changing relationships with the public social and health administrators, support and help contacts, subscriptions and payment arrangements.
F) Teachers and students in graphic design and other areas, who here will find meaningful tasks in the pictogram design for glyphs (pictograms, having regard to everyday events) that challenges their creativity, and which can be subjected to qualitative evaluation.
Also cross-cultural aspects could here be taken into consideration.
I permit myself to go into all these details to be sure you understand the nature of the global freeware application I strive for.
(I am painfully aware that the 12 glyphfonts as yet are missing many, but trust, that users after me may create those they are missing.)
The ultimate goal is the testing and launching of freeware standalones for Apple, Windows and Linux. To realize that goal, I do need help in the following:
* I took steps to eliminate the built-in function of creating safety backups, as these would be meaningless in standalones, but I am uncertain of the outcome.
*Further I wondered whether the process of parsing the appearances of words or glyphs in the text of accumulating daycards could be re-engineered without en external folder, and the result still be displayed in the stack "Parseviewer".
* Last in my to-do list is the repair of the mind-mapping function. There is a handler with that title, and there is a substack with that name, the first card of this: "Instruction" displays complex mindmaps, and a mindmap palette, which however when clicked gives the response "The front script for this palette hasn`t been loaded".
So I need help!
You will find downloadable "Diary.livecode.zip" and "PCGlyffont.zip" in a folder: "Files for Phenomenalog"at "mega.nz".The link to download this is https://mega.nz/folder/Krx3DRBT#dAyij0nirO-9DvQghmOKTg
You can also access an (old) website concerning the project, www.phenomenalog.dk , not yet revised to fit the new versions of standalones.
My mail is "kresten.bjerg@psy.ku.dk
I am an (old) danish researcher in psychology. Since the 70's I have focused on the HOME, the domestic sphere.
At the University of Copenhagen Institute of Psychology I developed an "Experimental home", a small furnished apartment including IT of the time, e.g. timelapse video. With students we built a small physical model of the apartment, where we attempted to develop condensed videos of familymember movements and activities.
This was the context, where the notion of pictograms for homelife activities came up.
The experimental home had to be closed, due to missing funding.
I took the first steps in developing a laptop citizen-diary in 1997.
Several versions has since then been tested, evaluated and reworked.
Credits are due to resources from the communities of "HyperCard" and "Revolution" developers, among these foremost Mark Schonewille (Economy-X-talk.com) Sarah Reichelt and her DateTime.rev collection, Richmond Mathewson for his Paint widgets, Eric Chatonet, Klaus Major, Mark Talluto and others.
The present version 19.8.2 has been in continuous daily use by myself through more than a decade.
It is important that a new user of this application understands the founding principle: that the body-household, the domestic household and the information household are parallel threads of most human's lifeworlds.
And it is important that the design of the clone offers the new user the possibility to furnish and inhabit the standalone after personal taste and preferences.
The freeware clone is meant for all kinds of users in force of its extensive flexibility.
Let me list:
* The diary creates automatically a new daycard with weekday, date, month, year, week-number.
* On return a precise timeadress is written after which the user can write text (in any language!)
* A "RETRO" button offers the user to select an earlier time address for text referring back to earlier in the day.
* Supplementing the use of textwriting the user is offered to install and use pictograms (glyph-buttons) from 12 categories/fonts (Body, Child, Social, Household, Food, Cultivate, Smoke, Info, Outside, Sport, State, Reflection) each of which can be used in different sizes, different colors and with different placements. Those that I considered to be the most relevant are available at-hand on your daycard-window, but can be deleted. All can be attained via the “Glyphs”-menu. Which glyphs are available at-hand, and which glyphs are in the catalogue, can be continuously revised by the user.
* The user can be informed on how to use these features in the "Tricks"-menu.
* Each has an english tooltip that will show, when holding the cursor over the pictogram.
* This is also the case for various other buttons and fields.
* The user can also, via the “Tools”-menu, produce and install text-buttons (in any language) with the same options.
(When clicked they will be copied in the present daycard at the present time. But the user may also insert them at alternative timeadresses by pressing the RETRO-button, for insertion to previous time.)
* A button "Addresses " opens a stack where the user can collect (and search in) addresses, mail and mobile numbers to relevant people, firms or institutions.
* A button "Calendar" is an option for the user to make use of an updatable calendar for remembering events and/or for being reminded of expectancies when a new daycard is opened.
* The "GO" menu gives access to:
Making textdrafts in any language of any length, baptize them, accumulate them and print or copy them to mailsystem.
Mindmapping, producing textbuttons (in any language) and connecting them with lines (This is one of the functions which have to be repaired!)
Go to a specified daycard in the users own diary.
See the result of parsings (The parsing function also have to be repaired)
Go to my cyberspaces, an internet browser connected to one or more pages for the user to assemble links to personally relevant internet-sites in one or more personal cyberspaces.
* Directly below the central window of the daycard there are 5 small fields assembling data for number of cigarettes, number of drinks, number of medicines, length of sleep and time of blodpressure. There are glyphs for cigarettes, drinks, medicine, and two glyphs, one for "sleeping" and one for "stand up", which, when clicked in the following day will count the hours and minutes of sleep. Especially for the three first it is possible, when clicked by the user to update the count manually. The last about bloodpressure relates to a table, which the user can open through a button "Statistics", and input the details of bloodpressure-measuring, pulse, body-temperature, exercise, sugar and weight. This feature can also be used to monitor other functions.
* The lower part of the daycard offers options for accumulating notes to a wide range of user-labelled subjects, friends, family-members, projects, tasks. (38 just numbered buttons, which can be baptized by the user)
* "Detailed preferences" lets the user decide which of these shall be visible on the daycard-window.
* The user is also offered an option for opening a table for collecting own user-names, account numbers, pincodes, passwords etc. Because of the vulnerable character of these data, access to this table is slightly complicated, via a search button, which is normally used for testsearch, parsing and codesearch. But beware the danger of hacking. The most vulnerable data can be omitted and just handwritten on a printout of the table.
WHO - IN ANY COUNTRY - MAY BE MOTIVATED TO START USING SUCH A DIARY?
A) Those whose everyday is complicated by old & new disabilities, aging, chronic diseases, acute illnesses, symptoms, tests, waiting periods, treatments, exercises in physical therapy, medication, therapy, medication side effects, health care, patient transport, appointments, addiction rehab etc.
The tool could serve such users to remember – and document – their experiences.
B) Relatives and personal caretakers for severely disabled and chronically ill patients, who feel responsible for their everyday life, at home or in nursing homes, and thereby not only have to overcome the patient's body care and monitoring, timing and administration of the patient's affairs and agreements, transport and economy - but also - in addition to general and special household (shopping, cooking, cleaning, washing) must administer their own body-household, personal finances and (more or less digitized) information-household (telephone, SMS, email, radio, TV).
C) People who are very much alone, and people who are easily bored.
They may here be provided with a platform to "talk with themselves" and, through recording of their factual around-the-clock experiences, come to look at their own priorities, habits and everyday life in slightly new ways.
This must also apply to persons in programs like AA, and prisoners and clients in institutions for re-education/rehabilitation, where the aim is, that they reflect, change their mind and reach a higher level of self-understanding and mindfulness. Here (as in all contexts) the promise of non-disclosure and privacy will be essential.
D). People who want to learn more about IT and accumulate experiences in developing either basic or higher levels of digital literacy, across the handling of text, images and sound, calendar, contacts, SMS, mail, internet etc.
By opening a 24/7 diary-trail along the everyday life´s journey, where events, challenges, time consumption and general "informationhousehold" is contextualized, the user ensures her/himself at least a marginal documentation-power in face of the offers, demands and allurements of an ever accelerating unscrupulous global information society.
E) People, especially elderly, who have a hard time facing the many obstacles in the IT community, remembering instructions, procedures, PINs and passwords, delays and postponements, due dates and deadlines, changing relationships with the public social and health administrators, support and help contacts, subscriptions and payment arrangements.
F) Teachers and students in graphic design and other areas, who here will find meaningful tasks in the pictogram design for glyphs (pictograms, having regard to everyday events) that challenges their creativity, and which can be subjected to qualitative evaluation.
Also cross-cultural aspects could here be taken into consideration.
I permit myself to go into all these details to be sure you understand the nature of the global freeware application I strive for.
(I am painfully aware that the 12 glyphfonts as yet are missing many, but trust, that users after me may create those they are missing.)
The ultimate goal is the testing and launching of freeware standalones for Apple, Windows and Linux. To realize that goal, I do need help in the following:
* I took steps to eliminate the built-in function of creating safety backups, as these would be meaningless in standalones, but I am uncertain of the outcome.
*Further I wondered whether the process of parsing the appearances of words or glyphs in the text of accumulating daycards could be re-engineered without en external folder, and the result still be displayed in the stack "Parseviewer".
* Last in my to-do list is the repair of the mind-mapping function. There is a handler with that title, and there is a substack with that name, the first card of this: "Instruction" displays complex mindmaps, and a mindmap palette, which however when clicked gives the response "The front script for this palette hasn`t been loaded".
So I need help!
You will find downloadable "Diary.livecode.zip" and "PCGlyffont.zip" in a folder: "Files for Phenomenalog"at "mega.nz".The link to download this is https://mega.nz/folder/Krx3DRBT#dAyij0nirO-9DvQghmOKTg
You can also access an (old) website concerning the project, www.phenomenalog.dk , not yet revised to fit the new versions of standalones.
My mail is "kresten.bjerg@psy.ku.dk