Re: ndxCards

< Next Message | Back to archived message list | Previous Message >

Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 3527

Posted by graham.smith
2005-07-22 14:50:44

Its difficult for me to say as I have been running the beta of 1.93 since I bought it.

However, the support forum provides this info (which hasn’t pasted very well):

Release notes for Beta version 1.93.

Bug fixes:

* The note typing area was shrinking if you changed the note type rapidly from one note type to another many times for the same note (we donít know why you would do this ñ but someone did, and found a problem that we have since corrected).
*

Features:

* The Source Card:
o The source card will be a bit bigger and has additional fields.
o There is a separate list for Editors from Authors ñ this is pertinent when your Source is a section of a Book, or an article in some Proceedings. You will use the same field to enter the editorís name as an author, but check the editor box.
o There are two new fields ñ Custom1, and Custom2. (We are exploring the possibility of letting you name these fields). You can store additional information in these fields and may find it particularly useful for new Source Types that you define (see below).
* New Source Types.
o There are additional Source types included ñ Edited Book, Report..
o You can add your own Source type (there is a new tab in the Properties area to do this). When you add a Source type, you should specify equivalent Reference Type name used by EndNote, if you are interested in importing / exporting using the Refer format.
* Formatting Citations
o ndxCardsô now supports custom formatting for reference citations.
o Turabian style has been added to MLA, APA and Chicago styles. You can also add citation formatting styles (e.g. Harvard White Book). You will now have pull down list to select default style or the style for a particular project.
o You can specify how a reference should be formatted given a Source Type and Style (e.g. Book / MLA, Article / APA ). For each such combination, you can select the elements that are part of the citation (Author, Title etc.), and how they should be formatted (ëunderlinedí, ëin quotationsí, ëpreceded by Ed.í etc.). Once you save this, this formatting will apply the same way ndxCards uses source citations now (in your Projects etc.)
* Those of you with the Superset license can import from, and export to EndNote using the Refer format.
o The menu choices will be seen when you right click on the Source List.
o The import command will take you to an Import Wizard which will guide you through the process. You will be able to ignore comments, substitute EndNote keywords with your own etc. Please look through your EndNote documentation / help files as the steps to get a Refer text file from the selected references vary depending on the version of EndNote you are using.
o The Export command will output a text file in the Refer format exporting those sources that you highlight.

And for 1.94 they list:

There are some significant new things with this release. I am listing a few here, and am opening the question whether each of them deserve its own topic, or should we leave them under this topic (Version 1.94).

* Named Filters - You will be able to create the criteria to filter notes and name it. That way you don’t have to create the same filter over and over again. There will also be improved searching, e.g. search for text in a note card that can include boolean logic (e.g. Find notes with “Planning” AND “War”)
* Work Area (or Work Space we can’t seem to decide what to call it) - This would expand the concept of the Project today, and extend the metaphor of electronic index cards. You can work with a subset of the notes list in this work area (you create this subset by using one or more named filters, and/or by dragging from the notes list on to the work area). You can name this work space, store it and bring it back to continue working on it. The work area can be an outline (the same as is available today), a Flash card module to learn/review your flash cards, an area to remember a number of specific notes - a ‘pinnable’ collection if you will - so that you can use them as a daily planner/tickler for example. We are also working on a work area where you can represent a note card using shapes and analyze relationship visually, drawing lines between them, placing them on background images etc.
* Improved printing - ability to decide what you want printed on the note card (e.g. leave out Keywords, Subject, print a caption along with the picture etc.)
* Spell check
* Improved flexibility while using notes in documents - e.g. ability to have document’s format override note’s formatting.
* One more step to Unicode support

No offer to try out the beta of 1.94 yet.

Graham

Back to archived message list