Formbook 4+

Nice app, needs more computation

Nice app. Supposedly privacy preserving, can export your data for using elsewhere... But if you are here to really manage your data / process, you will run into gaps quickly.

Dev, perhaps consider...
- date math in calculated fields (i.e. 'days to arrive' based on 'order date' minus 'arrival date'). right now you can only do math on number fields.
- system variables (i.e. 'days until harvest' based on 'today's date' minus 'expected harvest date'). no way to implement as far as i can tell.
- more complex reporting functions, such as 'average germination rate' not being the average of my germination rate field (this is possible today, but 'wrong'), but 'sum of all germinated' divided by 'sum of planted' across all notes in a notebook
- dynamic fields, where if a condition is met, the field appears, otherwise, it is hidden. (consider the 'days until harvest' 10 years from now, we would have huge negative numbers here, unless we could say 'disable if 'harvested?' = yes, or something along those lines. or how about 'if the user said x, then they also should be asked to provide y?)
- minor graphical glitches resolved. unsettling to have obvious bugs where something important may be managed.
- moving 'groups of fields' at once. maybe by section, if using the section functionality.

Nice concept

I’ve been looking for a simple, yet customizable, and easy to use database for planning and tracking group Bible studies. I just downloaded this. I like it so far. But I see a few glitches. There are some editing problems. For example, I have separate “notebooks”, which seems to be the equivalent of a table / form. I’ve referenced my Names notebook from my Attendance notebook. When I modify a name in the Names notebook, it doesn’t change in the Attendance notebook. And there’s no unselect. I can recreate a NEW name with the same spelling as the 1st name, and then unselect the original entry in the attendance, but that’s an annoying work-around.

It seems this app has a lot of potential. I’ll continue playing with it for now.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your comment.
The bug that you describe is now solved in the new version 1.5.0.
If you need further information, you can interact with our team through the contact link of our website.

Wondeful app, needs a few features and maybe some polish.

First off, the potential for this app is great, and I appreciate your vision for the app.

Please consider implementing a few features to import data - so we have a good starting point.
It would also be nice to have a few additional data types - lists/sets of objects of same and dissimilar types, file data type, reference to another note (from any other notebook), rich text/markdown editor for a long text field, and finally (probably into the far future, or if it is possible at all) - visualising those connections between notes. This would make this notebook app a Zettelkasten that's got super powers!
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful app, and wish you a very happy new year 2022!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your comment. I'll definitely take into account your comments! And happy New Year to you too!