Right now I'm reading the book "Presentation Zen" by Garr Reynolds. Its a great book about 
creating meaningful presentations. In the current chapter the authro
described how to approach the creating of a presentation. He states that
you should use brainstorming and mindmapping before you design your
presentation instead of of creating bullet lists over and over.

This made me think. Adobe has this Spring Graph component in the community 
exchange. Wouldnt it be great to have a brainstorm(mindmap)  mode in Adobe 
Presentations which lets you collect ideas, structure them (scribbles of 
images, keywords etc) and then create a presentation from your main nodes
of your mindmap. The mindmap shouldnt have a lot of features like icons , richtext etc. Just the possibility to structure and cluster your ideas.

Right now I'm reading the book "Presentation Zen" by Garr Reynolds. Its a great book about 
creating meaningful presentations. In the current chapter the authro
described how to approach the creating of a presentation. He states that
you should use brainstorming and mindmapping before you design your
presentation instead of of creating bullet lists over and over.

This made me think. Adobe has this Spring Graph component in the community 
exchange. Wouldnt it be great to have a brainstorm(mindmap)  mode in Adobe 
Presentations which lets you collect ideas, structure them (scribbles of 
images, keywords etc) and then create a presentation from your main nodes
of your mindmap. The mindmap shouldnt have a lot of features like icons , richtext etc. Just the possibility to structure and cluster your ideas.

If you start offering a service like ProofHQ.com that works directly with acrobat I would be extremely happy. 

Designers point of view:

Create PDF. Open in Acrobat. Tell it to post to Acrobat.com and email a list of recipients to review the pdf by x date. As the owner of that PDF I can see who has reviewed, made changes and/or approved. Or an email is sent to me when all recipients have reviewed. From login you can see a list of documents you have sent out for review.

From the reviewers point of view:

They receive the email, log in to acrobat.com and there's a list of all the documents they have received to review and their review due dates. Once they've selected a file to review they can do comments and mark ups, with those comments tagged as being from that specific user. If they don't review by the date specified they receive a reminder email.

If you really wanna be schnazzy have the option to place an icon in the menu bar that gives an at a glance look at the number of pdfs sent

If you start offering a service like ProofHQ.com that works directly with acrobat I would be extremely happy. 

Designers point of view:

Create PDF. Open in Acrobat. Tell it to post to Acrobat.com and email a list of recipients to review the pdf by x date. As the owner of that PDF I can see who has reviewed, made changes and/or approved. Or an email is sent to me when all recipients have reviewed. From login you can see a list of documents you have sent out for review.

From the reviewers point of view:

They receive the email, log in to acrobat.com and there's a list of all the documents they have received to review and their review due dates. Once they've selected a file to review they can do comments and mark ups, with those comments tagged as being from that specific user. If they don't review by the date specified they receive a reminder email.

If you really wanna be schnazzy have the option to place an icon in the menu bar that gives an at a glance look at the number of pdfs sent

Hi,

This may fall into the realm of some ideas already mentioned -- along the lines of a "to-do list" or workflow management system, but I'd like a separate area where multiple authors can jot down questions, comments, suggestions for revisions, actual document revisions, etc. so as to have a common area for brainstorming/collaboration before/while making changes to the document itself. This area would help keep the working document more clean, since users could vett ideas before they get incorporated, and the overall scope would be kept more clearly in mind when composing. Individual author comments don't currently provide the same kind of structure and can get lost in the shuffle. The group I'm working with is currently using email to fulfill our need for this kind of space.

Thanks for your consideration!

Sarah

Hi,

This may fall into the realm of some ideas already mentioned -- along the lines of a "to-do list" or workflow management system, but I'd like a separate area where multiple authors can jot down questions, comments, suggestions for revisions, actual document revisions, etc. so as to have a common area for brainstorming/collaboration before/while making changes to the document itself. This area would help keep the working document more clean, since users could vett ideas before they get incorporated, and the overall scope would be kept more clearly in mind when composing. Individual author comments don't currently provide the same kind of structure and can get lost in the shuffle. The group I'm working with is currently using email to fulfill our need for this kind of space.

Thanks for your consideration!

Sarah

For more process oriented documents, I'd like to be able to create simple reusable workflows that I could apply to my documents.  For example, I could create a review workflow where the document is created/authored in step 1 (by users I specify), then there is a review step, if the document is approved, then the workflow is complete, otherwise it goes back to the authoring step.

What would make this even better is that in my review step, I could set up a review meeting in Connect Now that gets associated with this step.  When a document is moved from author to review, a meeting gets created in Connect Now were assigned reviewers can review the doc in real time together.

For more process oriented documents, I'd like to be able to create simple reusable workflows that I could apply to my documents.  For example, I could create a review workflow where the document is created/authored in step 1 (by users I specify), then there is a review step, if the document is approved, then the workflow is complete, otherwise it goes back to the authoring step.

What would make this even better is that in my review step, I could set up a review meeting in Connect Now that gets associated with this step.  When a document is moved from author to review, a meeting gets created in Connect Now were assigned reviewers can review the doc in real time together.

Idea is to be able to create a group of users with specific role and then create a workflow online. Having ability to add documents to this queue via mobile device and notifications about actions required would be great.

Idea is to be able to create a group of users with specific role and then create a workflow online. Having ability to add documents to this queue via mobile device and notifications about actions required would be great.