OK, so can we assume that most people, when they are looking for a chat log will know exactly who the chat was with??? ...and roughly when the chat was... give or take a month or two. This is true for all the times i've been looking thru my chat logs.
I think this is the default??? 'Save By Date' i.e. the out-of-box experience
code:
...\My Chat Logs\December 2006\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com.ple
...\My Chat Logs\December 2007\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com.ple
...\My Chat Logs\March 2006\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com.ple
...\My Chat Logs\March 2007\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com.ple
This is
not very useful and
not logical.
Having to look in several folders, just to see if there is a log for the person you were chatting to...
Trying to find the right month in the year you were talking to them... and then trying to find the next month, or the previous month... skipping backwards and forwards thru the list as it's out of chronological order...
Now we have the other option, 'Save By Email'
code:
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\April 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\April 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\August 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\August 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\December 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\December 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\February 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\February 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\January 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\January 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\July 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\July 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\June 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\June 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\March 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\March 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\May 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\May 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\November 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\November 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\October 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\October 2007.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\September 2006.ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\September 2007.ple
More user friendly, as all the logs for one person are in a single folder.
But they in the totally wrong and illogical order.
Not easy on the eyes and
not easy for searching thru... As with the first example. OK, singularly, the filename is very descriptive, but if you have more than one file in the folder, it then becomes confusing.
OK, the ISO Date format is not being used in it's full.
The idea of talking about the ISO standard is to use the fundamental features of it that will make all this easy.
The five 'Advantages' listed in the document on the standard are all relevant here:
quote:
* Easily readable and writable by systems
* Easily comparable and sortable
* Language independent
* Larger units are written in front of smaller units
* For most representations the notation is short and of constant length
So we could have something that is very easy on the eye, something that sorts naturally (alphanumerically=default on all systems), very easy to scan down to find what we are looking for, as it all lines up... Irrespective of where in the world you live.
So we could have it looking like this. All logs for one person are in a single folder, that works well as seen above. Then the monthly filenames are in the form: Year, then month number followed by the Month Name (which will help us with trying to remember which month is which number
). Naturally sorts correctly and can not cause any confusion with any user, of any level
code:
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-01 (January).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-02 (February).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-03 (March).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-04 (April).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-05 (May).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-06 (June).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-07 (July).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-08 (August).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-09 (September).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-10 (October).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-11 (November).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2006-12 (December).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-01 (January).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-02 (February).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-03 (March).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-04 (April).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-05 (May).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-06 (June).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-07 (July).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-08 (August).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-09 (September).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-10 (October).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-11 (November).ple
...\My Chat Logs\fred.bloggs@hotmail.com\2007-12 (December).ple
User-friendly
The fact that we have the ability to change the registry to make Messenger Plus! do the above with the folder/file naming must mean that it is a rather easy job for Patchou to make this change such that Messenger Plus! is
user-friendly out-of-the-box for everyone.
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