Sorting.
Now, when you log into hngry and get your restaurant list (either paginated or all on one page), you can sort your restaurants by rating or alphabetically (ascending or descending). Just click on the column title in the blue header (to sort by ratings, click “Rating”) and it’ll sort your list in ascending order. Click again and it’ll sort it in descending order. That’s it!
I made a few little fixes here and there today too, just making the site more stable and (hopefully) easier to use.
If you have any suggestions for things you’d like to see, feel free to leave a comment here. I’d love to hear them.
May 17th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Great feature! Now that my list of restaurants is growing, this is very helpful. I have a request: I like the “View all at once” feature and would like to be able to select that as the default. As it is now, if I do a lookup on one of my tags (another great feature!), and then go back, it reverts to the multi-page mode, so I have to click on ‘home’ and then ‘view all at once’ again.
Do you have thoughts on sharing entries and tags with other users? It would be cool to see who else has stored a particular restaurant in their hngry list and what reviews of favorite dishes they like.
Have you thought of a way to print the restaurant list, either as a whole or by tags? I could see this useful if I need to carry around the phone numbers.
I started using your site a couple of months ago. Now that I have a number of restaurants listed I find this to be very useful. I don’t use one of the key features, which is entering the amount of money to spend. I’m mainly using it to catalog all of my favorite restaurants.
Tom Buckley
Indianapolis
May 17th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Tom-
Thanks for the comment!
I’ll work on implementing a default list view in the near future. I’ll announce it here when I do. However, you don’t have to click the home button to get back to a place where you can choose the paginated or full list view.. There’s a link on the paginated restaurant list page named “View all on one page”, underneath the home “button” that allows you to switch views from that page without going all the way back. That should take out one step for you for the time being. The exact opposite is true if you’re on the full list page. There’s a link in the same place on that page named “View all on multiple pages”.
Yes, I definitely plan to make restaurants/tags sharable and searchable sitewide in the near future. I want to get the core features out first though, and make hngry as useful as possible for the individual. If it’s not useful for individuals, it won’t be useful to a community, I think. I’ve only got a few more features that I’d like to get out before that, such as coupon tracking (so hngry can remind you before your coupons expire), and coupon search (so that you can search for coupons on hngry before you go out to eat, print them out and save some money.)
No, I hadn’t thought about printing out the restaurant list. I’ll put that in my list of features to include. It shouldn’t be hard to implement at all.
Yeah, hngry hopefully has/will have enough features in the near future that anyone can use it in their own way, to make their life a little easier. I’m not expecting many people to use all of the features, but I would like to make it as useful as possible with a full feature offering that people will use a good number of them.
I’m absolutely thrilled that it’s working well for you.
May 27th, 2006 at 5:04 am
Richard, Thanks for your reply. Hey, I have another thought. Last night I needed to pick up Indian food to go from a restaurant about 20 minutes from where I work. As with many small ethnic restaurants, they have no web page. I fished thru the take-out menus I keep in the car, but I didn’t have theirs. As such, I had to drive there, order, and then wait for the 25 minutes or so while they prepared the food. I could have just ordered the usual, but we all wanted something different this time, not the usual chicken curry and naan.
At home I sometimes scan in take-out menus so I’ll have them handy. Unfortunately, that’s just on my home PC. It would be cool, I thought last night, if I could not only get the phone number from my Hngry page but also pull up the PDF scan of the take-out menu. And have that file accessible to others if they want to see it. I realize that this involves hosting files and that’s probably not something you want to do, but could it call or link files from some other source? Like on my company blog (www.exacq.com/blog) I link to pictures on my company flickr site. Is there a flickr-like site to share and call PDF files or other types of files that could be used here? I would think the link could be inserted in the web page field and work that way. Any thoughts? This would be a cool feature.
Thanks again. I really appreciate everything you’re doing with this.
Tom Buckley
Indianapolis
May 28th, 2006 at 2:45 am
Yeah, implementing something like that had crossed my mind at one point, and that would be a useful feature to have. I do not plan to host any files at the current time… however I will look into partnering with a company that does, so that I can make the process of adding a menu to hngry more automatic than having to upload files to a flickr account or other hosting. Photobucket (http://photobucket.com/) was made especially for hosting files that you’d like to link from some other web service. If I were you, I’d try that first.
You are correct, though in assuming that you can put a link to the menu in the web page field. It will take any valid, full web address (including http://) and create a link to it. You can definitely use that field for that purpose (I should probably rename it something a little more descriptive.)
Thanks for the input!