Software roadmap

Development Plan

Phenote: Search field for character list tables. Filter out table rows by simple text matching.
Phenote: Ontology mode for search field. Show only rows using a term descending from the search term.
Phenote: Character matrix view of entered data. Read-only.

Phenote: Improved menu handling.
- User should be able to access common application commands while any window is in front.
- On Mac, menu should properly use Quit menu and other standard menu items.
Phenote: Improved document opening/saving functionality.
- User will be able to quickly save a document to the same file it was opened from.
- User will be able to open multiple documents simultaneously.
Phenote: Editable character matrix for data entry as well as viewing.

Phenote: Annotation using temporary terms, when an appropriate term is not available in an ontology. Ability to update these terms to official term once it is available.
Phenote: Should be feature-complete for essential character annotation work by curators.