UI Idea : Need a general/index/summary view
Created by: jerrydiff
Let me start from the begining, when you enter paperwork, you are directely in the action, you arrive in the middle of your last documents, and .. thats it. I've seen poeple start paperwork and dont understand it was a document archive tool, because it mostly looks like an explorer windows with a research function. For some poeple, its an interface for scanning that lets you see the last document you have scanned.
It feels to me that it lacks what could be named a summary, or an index, a view that would provide with a glance what actually is in store, that provide a classification and reassure the user that his documents are indeed well organised, well classified, accounted for.
Here are a few starting ideas for this view, it should help reply to this question : how much documents are in each category, what are the main categories, how much documents have failed the automatic tagging (and if there's none, say it !), how many electric bills do i have stored, how many documents are in a single / multiple categories and so on
Users are very used to being abused by softwares, silent errors, lost datas without warning, etc. they need some kind of metric and feedback to be assured it is actually working. Sometimes, a stupid green indicator saying all stuff are ok since last time goes a long way. I must say paperwork works honnestly quite well, I know it, but it does not advertise in anyway during the time you interract with it. A summary would help in that regard, it gives the feeling that everything is well organized