Special Inventory "Drops" folder

ok, I have been searching the forums and have not found anything like what I've got in mind..please share with me and the LINDENS, what you think...

I would like to have a folder in my inventory...like the objects one...where things dropped on me, online or offline, go directly to..this would include notecards, invites, objects, Pictures, files, gifts, whatever!

Being a designer, I get ALOT of stuff dropped on me, like invites to see new malls, which I suddenly "Find" 2 months after the fact. I find this annoying! I want this info, and yes, I get notified in my email that something was dropped..BUT....there's always a but....when I come into SL, many times before I'm even landed I hear "DING" and my IM's flood all over my desk...making that dropped item..quicky forgotten.

another view...for shopoholics...how many times have you been out on a shopping spree and bought everything in sight (TY btw..LOL) only to get home and forget what all you bought? hahaha..yeah, me too! Lets drop those items in that folder too!

Pictures go to textures, invitations to objects, notecards to notecards, things get delivered all over! its too easy for fun stuff..and IMPORTANT STUFF... to be missed

ok, so I guess what I want, and am sure many agree..is a folder, in our inventory, that recieves ALL incoming stuff...dropped, bought..whatever..PLEASE!

This makes sense for me too, because even when sorting by date, things tend to get cluttered up. I'd like to have everything arrive in a central DOCKING BAY folder. Even folders I receive should end up within this folder.

(Yesterday, I was doing a lot of inventory sorting, and it was rather tedious after a point... I also lament I can't preview what something is without rezzing it.)

Agreed! I'd love to have some kind of "Incoming" folder. I hate how when I buy things they usually go into their own folders, except when you buy a box which goes into Objects. Yes, technically it's an object, but does anyone think that is more important than the fact that you just bought it?

I endorse this idea. And the preview would be cool, too, not sure how technically feasible this is though. Additionally, I would also endorse a complete overhaul of the entire inventory system (might as well go for gold). It'd be nice to have something a little more intuitive. Anything, really. My inventory is a disaster, especially my textures folder, largely because it's a huge pain in the ass to do anything with.

Realistic: Something with the power of an actual file manager you'd find in your OS of choice, such as Konquerer/Windows Explorer/Whatever the Mac equivalent is.

Wishful Thinking: I was bored at work and read Burke's Second Life book the other day, wouldn't the inventory concept there be fun to have? Sure, it's horribly unpractical, but it sure would be awesome to click 'Inventory' and suddenly find yourself in a sim-size warehouse rendered by your local machine with your inventory in it (there's your preview for you), especially if you could move stuff around and organize it. Gives a new meaning to the phrase 'my inventory is a scary place.' And how cool would it be if you could invite other avatars into your inventory warehouse? (no building or anything supported, you'd just be able to delete, rez stuff in the 'real world', rename, etc, like usual.

Yeah... I am totally going in this direction too, and if not now, later. This is also decidedly connected to several other things, one of which how bland and crude the current IM interface is. It's text-only in a rich 3D world! How does that make any sense? We should able to do group IM chats in virtual conference rooms and "be in more than one place at once". Previews would also extend to clothing too, and in a way, this would function as some sort of metametaverse (to use a clunky term) or just like your avatar was using a personal PDA, much as how there are lots of stores on the Net that will offer "previews" for our offline goods.

Even if it can't be done now, if it's scalable, I'd like to see it eventually. The further thoughtline I've been following also includes making better use of multithreading on multicore processors, at least that way the "warehouse" could be offloaded without bogging down SL on the 1st CPU (or whatever the case may be).

Great idea, Kimmera - this would make it much, much easier for sorting through the constant inventory gives, and also make the mechanism by which SLBoutique delivers have a consistent destination.

*stamp of approval!*

In conjunction with this, I'd like to see them remove the automatic declining of inventory when in busy mode; I've had many customers who want to shop on the web without distractions in world. But I won't turn this thread into another rant on privacy controls.

Regards,

-Flip

RUR RUR RUR... funny, I just brought something similar up in another one of those "show as offline/chat invisibility" threads!

But it's all really quite connected.

Cool idea. Seems like a keeper to me.

I think this is a great idea! STAMP lol.

If someone makes a proposal, I will definitely vote for it!

MJ

In the mean time you could do the same thing (well opposite). You make a folder called "My Inventory" (or "My Sorted Inventory" and put things in the proper location. Basically you'd have a subset of the normal folders (or however you like). Then as you shop or get things, you'll know that ANYTHING not in "My Inventory" is something you just bought or were given and you need to decide to keep it or not.

Yup... currently for each "main", top-level system folder (i.e. Objects, Body Parts) I have a subfolder called ARCHIVE.

This would be indeed be awesome. Especially if we could friggin' detach windows and put it on a second monitor. Similarly, I'd give my right leg if they'd give us a real editor for scripts that could be detached. I mean, honestly, what's with this gimpy shit still when we're nearing 2.0? No find/replace, no line numbers, no branch collapsing, etc, etc. Why do we have something that makes Windows Notepad look good for a script/notecard editor? Also, does anyone else think the buttons at the bottom of the script window take up waaaaay too much space? Seriously, all that could be compressed into one toolbar.

I have hope someday they'll fix window minimizing too. Multiple windows stacking on top of each other when you minimize them sure is silly.

Love the idea of warehouse full of inventory! But it kind of scares me too. My invy is total chaos. I could see myself lost for months in there, like when you go searching for a book at home and run into all those old favorites and start reading bits of them and then completely forget what you were looking for.

One of the best things I've found about World of Warcraft is you can go to the Auction House and a window opens that gives you the list of stuff you can bid on/buy, and there's a little checkbox where you can preview HOW IT LOOKS ON YOU!!!

How do they do that? It's incredible (and not useful at all because nobody buys based on looks, they buy based on how powerful the weapon or armor or whatever is...) This function would be sooo much more helpful in SL than it is in WoW. Imagine if you could find out that your avi looks like shit in black leather chaps BEFORE you spend $300 L on them...

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