mhailes wrote I think the cube names are a bit technical again. Most users will have no idea what a data cube is.

But a cube is not necessarly technical, my 4 year old has cubes (for those that do not know, OLAP cubes are the same as pivot tables -- used in SQLNotes --, hence are an aggregate/analysis tool)

The cube, or box, is a container for information. You pour information into the cube. The cube faces display some of the information in the cube, and each face can display it in a different way (outline, grid, calendar, rich-text word-processor, etc). And users can control what information is displayed on each face, to give different perspective to the same information, or to see different/complementary information.

A great difficulty users are having with SQLNotes, the application, especially non-Ecco users, is the disconnect between the data and its presentation. So many users have written to me that they had lost their data, when it was simply not displayed on the grid (or cube face). The data was still in the cube, but was no longer displayed.

Users are not used to this disconnect between data and presentation. An Excel sheet looks the same everytime you open it. The data is an integral part of the Excel sheet. Sure you can filter, hide columns but data nevertheless belongs to the sheet. Delete the sheet, gone is the data. Same for a word-processor. Other information organizers too. Ecco is the only one I know that was like SQLNotes.

The concept of cube, or box, can, I think, really get users going: I have all this information in the cube, which part do I want to display on this face (i.e. this grid) ?

Of the various cube/box variations, the one I like most is InfoCube.

Unfortunately I don't like any of the names.  Daou and ZePim I like best of these.  If you try to be too descriptive, it sounds boring.  Go for fun!  Think of the short names of web apps that have gained popularity - Google, Soho, Flickr, Picasa.  Think of a name that can be used as a verb - like "Google it!"  Here are names of products out there: Stikkit, Todoist, Backpack, Jott, Zoot, Digg, Remember the Milk, etc.

So why not make it fun!

How about

Squogger

Squall (SQL + All) (a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed)

Sqweal

Mister Peabody (famous dog genius)

Peabody

Landskape

Atomik

Dabomb

Smarteepants

Wyzeguy

CranaPPL

SnaPPL

CuPPL

DimPPL

PPLeez

Anybody like ZeCube or CubeView ?

I'm copying and pasting my own ideas from the Donation Coder forum to here, but I have to admit I like the sound of some of these cube-inspired names, and I agree with mhailes that the two-part names (like my suggestions) can sound dull and technical and possibly turn people off.

I really like Qube and Kyoob.  Very Lifehacker, very marketable.

For the record then, my suggestions from earlier today:

I was thinking of how to show that it deals with all your data in different forms, and that it not only shows it but can manipulate it and calculate from it.

From the idea that you can view your data from different angles, I thought of holographs - so what about Holodata, or Holonotes?

On the same lines, I thought of Amphidata or Ambidata (since it works as database, spreadsheet, outliner etc).

Then on the theme of meshing and intersections, how about Filodata, Cordodata, Datacrux or Datasect.

As to analysing notes, how about Notalyser (or Notalyzer)?

... hummmm... but the problem is that qube is used a lot already. Oh well.