Modern projects are complex. While external tools can go a long way towards alleviating some of the coordination work associated with managing complex projects they are often poorly integrated with Revit iself, resulting in frustration and waste of time. We need a way to manage that complexity within Revit itself.
For my first idea in this series of ideas I propose a general purpose TODO/Notes facility be added to Revit. This facility needs to be general enough to allow each user to implement their own workflow on top of it, rather than imposing a particular workflow on everyone. This idea comes from my own workflow as well as observation of very experienced architectural technicians whose monitors are plastered with sticky notes and desks are littered with hand written todo lists. It's a mess and it's impossible to know who is actually working on what.
While general in purpose, such a feature should integrate with Revit in some specific ways. For example, I should be able to associate notes with views/sheets and see in the project browser that a view/sheet has a note assigned to it. Notes should have authors, automatically based on the current user, creation date and modification date. As far as formatting goes, notes should allow me to type in free form text with some basic formatting as well as have a TODO format where I can create a list of items that can be visually marked as "done". I should be able to insert hyperlinks into the notes. In fact if you were to adopt a simple markup language (e.g. Markdown) that would be great.
I think that even a very simple implementation of this idea would go a long way towards helping individuals manage complexity of modern projects.
This idea is more like a start of a conversation about where this might go rather than a request for a complete feature. Please contribute.
