06-23-2016, 09:42 AM
Hi all!
Now, I'm coming from a place where two links on a page are a lot of links (usually it's one link every couple of pages in scores that can be a couple hundred pages long), so I'd guess my needs and Skip's are probably different, but I'd like to suggest three alternatives to the split-colour idea. I'm afraid that split-colour links might be as visually distracting (to me, anyway) as including the numbers...
1. (probably easiest) All links are the same colour, which is an app-wide setting. (If I need to distinguish between links, I'll scribble some notes in.)
2. (probably somewhat more difficult) The first "from link" (the one to be tapped on) to be placed on a given page is colour #1, the second "from link" to be placed on the same page is colour #2, the first "from link" to be placed on the next page goes back to colour #1, etc. A maximum of 10 "from links" can be placed per page. Multiple "to links" (the ones where you wind up when you tap the "from link") of the same colour on a page should not be a problem since they flash when you link to them anyway.
3. (likely the most difficult, but probably the most useful) All links start out as a default colour (which can be set in the app-wide settings). A link's colour can then be changed to one of the other colours from a colour-selection dialogue accessed from the link menu. (Conversely, the user could be presented with this colour-selection dialogue when they create the link; ideally whether or not a user is asked for link colour upon link creation would also be a configurable setting.)
Thanks for considering my idea, and for making such a great app!
-Russ
Now, I'm coming from a place where two links on a page are a lot of links (usually it's one link every couple of pages in scores that can be a couple hundred pages long), so I'd guess my needs and Skip's are probably different, but I'd like to suggest three alternatives to the split-colour idea. I'm afraid that split-colour links might be as visually distracting (to me, anyway) as including the numbers...
1. (probably easiest) All links are the same colour, which is an app-wide setting. (If I need to distinguish between links, I'll scribble some notes in.)
2. (probably somewhat more difficult) The first "from link" (the one to be tapped on) to be placed on a given page is colour #1, the second "from link" to be placed on the same page is colour #2, the first "from link" to be placed on the next page goes back to colour #1, etc. A maximum of 10 "from links" can be placed per page. Multiple "to links" (the ones where you wind up when you tap the "from link") of the same colour on a page should not be a problem since they flash when you link to them anyway.
3. (likely the most difficult, but probably the most useful) All links start out as a default colour (which can be set in the app-wide settings). A link's colour can then be changed to one of the other colours from a colour-selection dialogue accessed from the link menu. (Conversely, the user could be presented with this colour-selection dialogue when they create the link; ideally whether or not a user is asked for link colour upon link creation would also be a configurable setting.)
Thanks for considering my idea, and for making such a great app!
-Russ