As y’all kick the tyres of this thing, the first bit of feedback I’m interested in is how you’re navigating the site.
From my own use I know there’s room for improvement. I was leaning heavily on search. But I thought I’d wait and see how the real world used it before doing anything else. Also I ran out of time.
So, all feedback welcome here. It’ll influence what I do next.
You should be taking a break but …
I really like the website. As an information structure geek, I appreciate how you’ve found this minimal design to convey the essence of what this is all about. I don’t mind extra clicks to open footnotes and such; it makes the site feel ‘solid’ in my opinion.
I do feel ‘lost’ when I’m down in the details. The vertical hierarchy (vertical breadcrumbs 
?) helps, but the the visual hierarchy could maybe be tweaked a little.
I would consider the effect of horizontal navigation aids. Not so much to actually use – clicking through a category’s IDs in order is not really useful – but for providing a little more orientation as to where the user is in the system.
Just a thought.
I like the search a lot. If people in general use this, I would put effort into making it more structured. So you can use the numbers effectively; now, if I type 12. I get the IDs under 12 but not in order … Maybe even make it more of a filter-as-you-type interface. That would also help with my issue of disorientation; you’d see the full structure to start with, and then irrelevant sections disappearing as you type.
Sometimes it’s like you can read my mind.
All good so far, I drib and drab from one thing to another - trying to prioritise paperwork/digital work and decorate the house amongst a number of ongoing challenges and a slipped disc. But so far so good with SBS. I think my biggest problem is the number of folders and ID’s, when I only really need access to a few admin IDs and all of the financial IDs…I saw on discord you said delete folders you dont use, but keep the structure and not replace them..I think this will help. What I love about the SBS, is if I make the decision to eventually go self employed, I will feel like I have a head start regardless of what sector I go into.
Pretty much also my take on search. It would also be great if an ID is typed e.g. 12.11 then only the matching ID should be shown (kind of a “quick jump” feature).
Apart from that I’m still not done digesting it all but so far I like it really much. Great work!
Thanks! Yeah this ‘quick open’ is what I’ll build next. Our minds are aligned.
