I have a few suggestions:
I don’t know if this is because I am using my tablet or phone instead of my computer, but I will have an item that I have just entered with magic input that is missing a few fields. So I go to the website to pick up things that are missing, go back to put it in my Stash Hub entry that I left up, and it is back to the main fabrics or patterns page (whichever I happen to have set it to) instead of the specific entry I am working on and I have to find it again before adding to it. This makes it quite time consuming, especially if I am adding several things to it, which is usually the case, so my first suggestion would be to make that be part of the choices of where to have Stash Hub automatically open to (in this case, last entry/page opened, or something to that effect, instead of just the main pages like patterns, fabrics, or projects.) I hope that makes sense.
The next thing I would like is a place to add links to site videos, tutorials, or YouTube videos that pertain to the pattern or fabric. Or is that what “Attachments” is for?
One other thing that would be very helpful, would be more spots for photos, line drawings, and charts. I often have to leave half of them out because there are only 4 spaces for each and I tend to buy patterns with several views of line drawings because there are a lot of options that come with it (some companies don’t put them all on one picture, but do each individually instead, and more than 4 charts if the pattern is for 2 or more genders or age groups, plus I like having examples in the photos of varying body types, and fabrics used to make up the patterns.
If these have been mentioned by other people already, I apologize. There are a lot of entries to read through.
Great suggestions and thanks for sharing. I’ll comment on each point below:
- Sometimes, when your phone is resource constrained, it will kill off apps in the background. So when navigating away from Stash Hub to a website, your phone might terminate the Stash Hub app. One way to prevent this is to clear any apps running in the background every so often. I will look into an option to restoring the app to the last opened page though.
- The best place for storing links is the Description or Notes fields. You can add clickable links in them.
- I hear you regarding number of images. What do you think would be the maximum number you’d want?
P.S. Attachments are for storing Pattern files.
Thank you. That is really helpful to know. I’m not the most tech savvy person.
As for images and line drawings, about 8 or 10 spaces for the line drawings and 10 or 12 for the images would probably be really good. Probably 6 would be enough for the charts most of the time. However, the more the better for any of them. Most of the time I do have enough space in the line drawings and charts but not usually in the photos. I know I have had at least 8 line drawings in a few of my patterns and some of the wardrobe builder ones have double that or more, but most of the time, they do fit. Of course the books and e-books are a different story. They usually have a several more, and it would be nice to be able to put all of the line drawing and chart options from them into Stash Hub too, not just the book cover and a single view of a couple of the patterns. They definitely have more than 6 charts too. I’ve ended up putting anything that I didn’t have room for from some patterns into some of the other windows out of necessity.
This is off sewing, but would there ever be a chance to have yarn and knitting and crocheting patterns included, or even a second app for them? I have other apps like that for my yarn and patterns, but they don’t hold a candle to what you do with Stash Hub. I probably shouldn’t even ask for that. I doubt you have time to eat or sleep as it is with all you do on Stash Hub.
Okay thanks. We’re going to increase the image count limit to 8.
Definitely. Once we’re happy with where Stash Hub is for garment making we’ll definitely be expanding to other crafts.