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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Wallet Label Export Format: A Proposal by Craig Raw
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NotATether
on 06/09/2022, 15:07:14 UTC
I wouldn't worry too much about human readability so much as human usability.

The proposed two-column format allows for a trivial CTRL-F to locate any specific desired one-off info, should someone want/need to find something directly in the raw CSV file (most likely looking up by addr or by label text).

And I don't think it's a reasonable use-case/design constraint to try to insure that the format be easy for humans to directly edit or add to themselves. Manually logging inputs or outputs is going to be incredibly error-prone regardless of how the format is defined. Excel or Google Sheets is fine as a convenience viewer, but manual editing only really makes sense within some kind of dedicated Bitcoin-savvy helper UI that can look up each txid entered, etc.

Ongoing management via direct human edits isn't practical (or at least wouldn't be a recommended practice) so let's not agonize over it.

Specifically related to the last sentence, do you think that adding a prefix at the beginning of some data will hamper the human usability? I'm starting to think that might be the case, assuming people autofill such data from other sheets.