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Hi Scott,
The developer(s) monitor the threads very closely, in fact I'm surprised Dominic hasn't chimed in already. They maintain an ongoing list of feature requests and work them in as they can. I imagine that they prioritize based on demand/support for specific features.
In regards to your question one thing that I would like to comment on is that in HIP even though you can have multiple colors in the summary and you can define those colors as you wish they do not get organized by color in the summary (as far as I know this isn't an option currently). Currently the report summary is organized by page number and item number only, so you would have your minor concerns or suggestions mixed in with major concerns or defects for example rather than having a group of low priority comments then a group of high priority comments. Depending on how you look at it I suppose this has it's benefits, but personally I think I'd like to be able to have two separate lists or at least that option.
For this reason I'm with you, having the option to have a couple of summary sections would be cool such as a; "Minor Concerns and/or Suggestions" summary and a "Major Concerns" summary, especially if you could view both together in the summary portion of the mobile apps. Another options that would work similarly is just to have the summary sort first by color then by page and item number, but again, having both together and grouped by item may be preferred by some.
I tend to mark most everything as "major" while onsite, so that I can quickly view them in the summary portion of the mobile app as I do a walk-around with the Client, but then I go back and change them so that the summary section doesn't contain suggestions and/or what I call 'punch-list' items that the Client may want to be aware of upon move-in, but that are not necessarily bargaining/negotiating material that might get shared with others.
If you're not familiar with HIP and/or Dominic I must say that above all the HIP Team is extremely responsive and it is very apparent that continuous improvement is a priority. I've received quick responses at all hours of the day and night and over the past couple of years of using HIP I've seen a lot of features be added and improvements made. It is already a great desktop software package and the mobile apps are very nice as well. That said I'm excited to see where it goes in time and as they continue to improve it.
My two bits...
Cheers.
