Sorry about this long post. I keep trying to shorten myself...but I just have had no luck lately. I have written so many attempts on this topic and trashed them all because they were sooo long and dumb. I am finally just going to give up and send this now... Again, sorry I can't seem to be brief lately.
I am not yet sure about if XY was ready for me to use immediately. I will think about that more later.
I can't remember right now.
'New to this program' is what I am calling a Newbie
Some folks, perhaps, will have experience with other, less Zen-like management programs but they are still going to head to Newb Corner for answers, I bet. (If we have one.)
Nobody is too excited about Newbie Corner but me, eh? Well, can I still try to make a case for having one? I can't give up quite yet. I think it would be more on the plus side than on the negative side. (But, don't get me wrong: No offense taken. I don't really care all that much. I'm not MARRIED to the Newb Corner Idea. I will give up after this.)
Newbie Corner - <linking> will help, won't it? So what if same questions are asked over and over? GOOD! Shows what a newb first is confused by. Encourages new buyers to have a place to ask embarrassing questions and feel at home amongst other newbs. Basically, it says: it's ok to be anxious to get to USING XY right away and u just need some quicky answers...maybe you haven't a clue WHERE to go look up the answers. Let us help (or point you to place where that discussion has been discussed <thread> -- or is illustrated <main webpage>-- or is explained <Help or Wiki). Would be awesome if in Newbie Corner we could build threads about each topic. <I think..but what do I know? I am still so new here>
Newbie Corner use also: New folks come HERE first! This is your spot to get first answers!
Ask questions or just chat, e.g., What are your computer uses? What do you want from this program? How much do you like the color choices aspect of XY? How long you been computering? Whatever folks, all folks, feel like telling and asking. Just comfortable area for new folks to first come to - and old-timers, too. A place for ALL but focusing on new users and new prospective users.
Might be good for prospective buyers to see Newb Corner...they could also learn USES of XY. AHA moments.
Now, after seeing some of these ideas and uses, they MUST have this product or life isn't complete!!!
Maybe THEY will want to Ask PRE-PURCHASE questions in Newb Corner.
So what if same questions?? We nicely point <link> to thread of similar questions and answers. "Welcome Janie. Check out this thread <link> where others have asked about that same issue. Something there might help." (And then, hopefully, that thread will be the place the subject is mostly talked about. Will make a great reference someday... place to find chat about one topic...all grouped together.)
I see we already have some really wonderful helpers like Wiki. Why not offer links to specific sections of Wiki? (I have read thru Wiki several times now..maybe Wiki helps folks who have been at it a week or so? I feel much more empowered to go there and actually UNDERSTAND much of it now.)
And like:
http://www.xyplorer.com/shots_preview.htm
http://www.xyplorer.com/shots_latest.htm
http://www.xyplorer.com/shots_findfiles.htm
http://www.xyplorer.com/shots.htm
Why not link to some of those above? (Who did those up? They have helped me. Love em. MORE of those...more details in the text that accompanies them -- lovely stuff. A couple of them I didn't understand.)
Ya, terminology. Glossary. That sounds good.
And maybe we could just take those photos above and work up more similar quality screenshots and beginner-speak text accompanying them. Then, we could make more use of LINKS to them. Love pictures!
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My history with some non-file management software:
I've been using one commerical program for 11 years and have helped make a software utility program for it and write the instructions and help users of both programs. Our homemade manuals and the commercial manuals, no matter how wonderful...seem to be **invisible** to new buyers!!
Maybe it's human nature to want quick answers or to have living people's hands to hold while learning? Maybe they don't know WHERE to look when they are trembling with excitement and desire to get ON using the new program??
Our findings: new users want to ask questions/qet quick answers rather than read. And heck, they are paying customers who expect answers. If they don't get them right away, often, they will write OWNER with basic questions -- tying up HIS time. We still point, but generally just answer on our support forum and have given up expecting them to read, read, read. It's beating head on wall to expect them to read at first, especially.
I have seen that if people get discouraged by not understanding how to use their new program, i.e., don't get easy answers, they sometimes abandon the software. Some even bad-mouth it. (Often totally misunderstanding it's uses and mis-informing others about it.) Bad advertising for great product. Discouraging. So, to me, anything we can do to GET PEOPLE HAPPILY USING is a plus all the way around.
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Ya.... the words..they blur when you haven't a clue about the terminology. Maybe a "New to This Type of Software?" section in the sales literature sections and in Help and in Wiki??
You guys are fun to be with. (and nice.)
I am still so excited about this program. WHY would one NOT want it (??), I keep asking myself.
UNDO... Yes!!! We need undo. Especially us newb random button pushers. 
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