Feature Request: Warning if Duplicates Detected

[gerryflux]

I have been enjoying using Binary Eye for about 2 weeks now.
I understand of the Ignore Duplicates and History Feature. Currently when those two features are enabled and a duplicate is detected, it's ignored silently.
The request I'm making is a build-up on these two, if there could be a toggle to allow the app to show a warning pop-up with or show some visible feedback when a duplicate is detected.
I have tried to make a mock-up of the pop-up below:

Don't mind the sloppy design ;)

[markusfisch]

Sorry for the late response. It would sure be possible to add such a dialog!

Currently there are two settings for ignoring duplicates: The app can ignore duplicates that happen directly after each other or avoid any duplicate in the whole history. I think such a dialog would probably only be useful for the latter option.

Still, I am wondering if a dialog is the best choice here since it would require some user interaction. Which could get annoying, I'm afraid. So maybe a (toast) message would be better if you are just interested in when a duplicate was detected?

[gerryflux]

Sure a toast notification could work. About the annoyance should it otherwise be a dialog box, that can be solved by having additional options in the settings under "Ignore Duplicates" such as:

• Ignore Silently (how it works now)
• Ignore with Toast Notification (your proposal)
• Ignore with Dialog Option (the proposal)
  In the end the user chooses the level of 'annoyance' they want, as for me I don't mind it ;)

[markusfisch]

Well, with the existing three possibilties:

• Consecutive duplicates
• Any duplicates
• Accept duplicates

This would result in something like this:

• Consecutive duplicates (silent)
• Consecutive duplicates (toast)
• Consecutive duplicates (dialog)
• Any duplicates (silent)
• Any duplicates (toast)
• Any duplicates (dialog)
• Accept duplicates

Feels a bit like feature creep to me 😉 Of course, the silent/toast/dialog option could be another setting.

[gerryflux]

Sure, that'd be a lot to take in and ruin the simplistic nature of the app:
What I'd propose would be a re-organisation of the feature:

1. Renaming the Feature
   Ignore Duplicates ❌
   Duplicates ✅

Under the Feature, I'd keep these options

• Accept (with toast - always nice to have visual/audio/haptic feedback 😉)
• Ignore
  • Ignore (Toast) - this would play two roles, silent and notify - while also not affecting the overall flow of use.
  • Ignore (Dialog) - this would offer the flexibility to choose whether to "Skip" or "Add Anyway"

I have tried to design a mockup for it to show what I mean: