HUD mark hand for review feature request

[Coffeetime]

Hi there,

I love the ability to give hands flags (good/bad/review/strange etc) after you've played them so you can find them later. But I'd like to be able to write a brief note to accompany the flags on a hand too, so I can remember what exactly it was about the hand I wanted to check out. Just a few words would do. Sometimes/often there is a particular thing about the hand I want to think about, but if I go back to it later it just looks like any other hand but I know there was something particular I wanted to think about when I marked it while playing... but what was it...

Also, less important but a slight niggle: it'd be nice to be able to mark a hand with multiple flags at the same time through the HUD. At the mo it seems only possible to mark one flag at a time before the HUD menu closes, which while perfectly workable, is a bit annoying as it takes time to mark each flag individually (and often if something happens on another table, the HUD menu will close, meaning I just get into confusion and fluster while I reopen it again and go to mark the flag).

[kraada]

An area that might be useful to you is the View Today's Hands report in the main PT4 window - you find this on the Play Poker page

For the tasks you are describing, if you right click a hand you can click Edit Hand Note to take a note on the hand (including specific comments about streets or whatever you'd like). You can also add multiple tags from the right click menu there.

In order to streamline your workflow you might want to try using this page with Show Marked Hands Only checked - then you'll only see hands you marked in the HUD and you can quickly add notes (or secondary tags) as you'd like.

[Coffeetime]

Hi Kraada,

Thanks for the reply on this one. I've checked the feature you're describing out and found it, and yes, I can see that works. But I already have multiple tables tiled on my screen, and normally a note tracker window and hand history window, too. I don't want to have to find my PT window, bring it up, and have it obscure the action on all the tables (and seriously break the flow) while I go through my hands looking for the one to make a note on. At that point I might as well tab out to a text document to make the same note, which would be quicker given I wouldn't have to find the specific hand while I'm playing, but still obscures the screen and breaks the flow of play.

What's happening at the moment is that I'm trying to focus on specific areas of my play, and I'd really like to be able to add a quick note to the specific hands I had a chance to focus on X specific area so I can look back through my hands later and easily find them, and review how I did with the thing I'm working on. Unfortunately at the moment I generally don't have time to alt-tab and then scribble down "I did X thing in this hand!", which is really frustrating because when I finish and go for post-game evaluation I know there were some hands in which I went for X specific play, but I've got a foggy-at-best idea which hands those were and I don't want to spend all my theory/evaluation time going through every single hand and trying to work out which are the ones I'm searching for. Yes, sometimes tracking a hand as a good/bad/review hand helps, but even then I might look at a tracked hand and think "what was it about this hand I marked it for?" All in all, it's making it harder to track my learning progression.

With that in mind, would it be possible to adjust the HUD tag-hand-in-progress menu to be able to add just a few characters so I'd be able to make the briefest of notes, please? If it's a royal pain in the behind to add to PT's code, then I understand and will have to find a work around. But if it's doable, it would be a major quality of life change for me as it would really help me track these crucial and very specific hands, which I don't currently have time to do.

Thanks for reading :)

[Coffeetime]

I've just had a follow on idea. Another way to achieve this would be the ability to add a custom flag/marker to a hand. So instead of just marking it as a generic "good/bad/review/strange" etc hand, the feature would allow me to specify my own flags, which I could then apply to a hand. So for example, if I wanted to mark a hand out as one where I tried working on stealing blinds, I could add a new flag, call it "blindsteal", and then when next a fitting situation came up while playing, I could flag the hand with my new custom blindsteal flag.

This would not only allow me to find that specific hand that I'd wanted to check out anyway, but also (if it was added as an extension of the current flagging system) would allow me to build up a list of hands in this category so I could review the whole list in post-session evaluation in the main PT window; like I might review a list of flagged good/bad/review or strange etc hands in post-play evaluation via the main PT window. This could be an amazing feature to help us track learning progress in specific areas of our play that we can define ourselves, just by being able to define custom flags or marks, and then apply them while playing using the HUD, as we would currently apply a good/bad/review etc flag.

Does this make sense?

[Sattva]

configure - tags - add
and you can add as much tags as you want, is it what you need?

[Barlin63]

I also think that it is too much of a burden to mark the hands while playing as it is today. It is possible to mark the hand that you are playing but if you are not fast enough the hand is already gone. I would also like to have something in the HUD or so where I with one click can click to mark the current hand or the previous one or the one before. Would it be an idea to have it in the HUD together with the outcome of the last three hands?

[Sattva]

I also think that it is too much of a burden to mark the hands while playing as it is today. It is possible to mark the hand that you are playing but if you are not fast enough the hand is already gone. I would also like to have something in the HUD or so where I with one click can click to mark the current hand or the previous one or the one before. Would it be an idea to have it in the HUD together with the outcome of the last three hands?

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and I've already ask for this feature ;)
https://www.pokertracker.com/forums/vie ... 59&t=40199

[WhiteRider]

Although it isn't with one click, you can already do that via the left hand PT-icon. The last few hands are shown there and you can tag them. We do this via the menu rather than on the table to avoid clutter and keep the interface clean. We realize that it takes a couple of extra clicks, but for most users having less extra "furniture" on the table is preferable.

[Barlin63]

Was not aware of this option and it does work for me! Thanks.

[Coffeetime]

Although it isn't with one click, you can already do that via the left hand PT-icon. The last few hands are shown there and you can tag them. We do this via the menu rather than on the table to avoid clutter and keep the interface clean. We realize that it takes a couple of extra clicks, but for most users having less extra "furniture" on the table is preferable.

Aye, though I think there are only the basic options of marking a hand as "good, bad, <ugly> review, tilt, strange"... am I right? What i'm asking for is basically the ability to define extra, custom, flags :) i.e. "loose co blind steal attempts" (long but you get the idea)

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and I've already ask for this feature ;)

Nice one :)