Yes! We’d really love to get the Sticky-Note implemented in O3! :
It’s heavily used for practical team communication by teams that use O2 (e.g. UgandaEMR sites on O2 use the sticky note a lot to share miscellaneous notes that are important to the rest of the team; I was amazed during in person visits by how helpful it was for intra-discipline comms, e.g. doc to social worker etc; or for ensuring better follow up at the next visit, e.g. “ensure ask about food need next visit” etc).
This is also a truly MVP way to get started on a care plan. Literally minimum viable but way better than nothing.
Designs
So we do have designs for it, we just haven’t had anyone with bandwidth/interest to implement it. I’d love to see this in the product!!
- Designs: https://zpl.io/o1gG7zv
- Styleguide components: https://zpl.io/y1JJ8Rw
Weaknesses
There are just 2 weaknesses in my mind, though I’m not sure they should stop us:
- In O2, no saved history: When you edit the note in O2, the previous words are forever erased - but the fact that it was not logged nor had any saved history of edits didn’t seem to be a problem.
- @slubwama @mmwanje is that a fair assessment, or did your users wish that the notes added to the sticky note could be saved somewhere?
- @ddesimone @ball did you find your O2 system users wished the history was saved? I see in your Hum-demo environment the sticky note is not available; was there a concern about it?
- I worry that the O3 design is a bit too hidden, compared to how in-your-face the O2 UI is (if there’s an existing note). See the comparison images below, where you can see in O2 the note is blindingly obvious as soon as you open the patient chart (like a real sticky note on papers!); whereas in the O3 design a note with info in it just has an icon suggesting it be opened.
O2:
O3:
To be clear: I don’t think either of these weaknesses should stop us from running with these designs. We can always improve!