Video user support for Subsurface-mobile

[Hartley Horwitz]

Willem,

These videos are excellent.  I'm impressed. I can only imagine how much
effort you've put into this.  Knowing the work that goes into this, I'm a
bit reluctant to suggest any changes, but at some risk, here I go:

* Video #1.  You mention early on that Subsurface has already been
downloaded from Google Play.  I'd suggest adding "or from Apple's App
Store" to highlight to users this software is available on both platforms.

* Video #2.  When entering coordinates for a new dive, I'd also suggest
doing this later by opening up the map, and copying and pasting the
coordinates back to the dive.  That's a very visual way of doing things and
fully built into the software.  (main-menu->location->map, then zoom to the
dive site, select "copy coordinates to the clipboard" and then return to
the dive, and paste in the coordinates).

* Video #2 or Video #5.  When talking about the cylinder, it is worth
mentioning you can specify a default cylinder by editing your "settings" in
the main menu.

* Videos #3 and #4.  I think these videos should be made for iOS as well.
I assume there's more users for Android than iOS, but it is probably still
worth it.  I don't think I can do as good a job as Willem, but I can try.

As for topics -- how about undo/redo, and moving a dive to the trip above
or below.  The undo/redo is probably the coolest feature.

...Hartley


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rob Mason <robmason38 at gmail.com>
> To: willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za
> Cc: Subsurface Mailing List <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:44:58 +0100
> Subject: Re: Video user support for Subsurface-mobile
> Hi Willem - these are great. Why not publish them onto a Youtube channel
> (or similar streaming provider) and embed/link from the Subsurface site?
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, 12:56 Willem Ferguson via subsurface, <
> subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>
>> Please see the following link for five video files.
>>
>> These are not meant to be to fully cover each aspect of
>> Subsurface-mobile, but rather guide a newby to become more familiar with
>> the software.
>>
>> There needs to be a videos that cover USB dive download (I do not have
>> access to a USB dive  computer at present) and also running and using
>> the location service (I need to go do a few dives to generate the video
>> material; waiting for lockdown to end).
>>
>> Any other topics that would be highly useful?
>
>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z74vcrvjbvnb2ar/AABYsuVpsSYd4KkqGird1J4Wa?dl=0
>>
>> I am not sure how to publish this. Possibly a static page on the
>> Subsurface web site with a link in the user manual?
>>
>
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