MyInfo 7 now available

Posted by WSP
Dec 21, 2020 at 02:29 AM

Daly, although I use MyInfo (and other similar apps) heavily, I am aware that most of my work consists of fairly simple notes and some bibliographical lists. Hence I’m sure there are many advanced procedures in MyInfo that I simply don’t turn to very often.

But these are the features that I now use regularly:

(1) In earlier versions, if you wanted to break down a group of notes into several sections, you had to create separate notebooks and keep them all open at once. Now you just create one notebook, and within that notebook you create multiple sections, with the tabs (all, if you wish, pleasantly rendered in different colors) running across the top of the note column.

(2) The program is for the most part tremendously speedy and can handle very large notes.

(3) You can attach other documents (such as PDF or Word) to individual notes, and then words or phrases in those documents will be found when you do a search of the full notebook.

(3) The (left) column that lists the titles of notes can now be organized in various sophisticated ways — some involving the “perspectives” menu.

(4) You can, if you wish, display and manipulate all tags in an optional column at the right. I found that useful occasionally.

(5) This may sound trivial, but sometimes I accidentally create two variants of a tag. If I want to combine them into a single tag, it’s now very easy.

(6) If you’ve used MyInfo in the past, you will already know that Petko is exceptionally sensitive to visual matters. MyInfo 7 is simply the best-looking app that I use. That may sound trivial to some people, but when I sit in front of it for hours at a time, it’s wonderful to be looking at such an attractively-designed app.

(7) Petko remains one of the most courteous and helpful developers I’ve ever encountered. One trivial example: a month or two ago I complained on the MyInfo forum that I was having trouble with the left-hand margins in notes pasted from Evernote, and within two days Petko had released an update that fixed it!

I think you’ll enjoy trying out version 7. MyInfo of course still has some weaknesses — such as lack of OCR of pasted texts and no iPhone or iPad versions — but it is an outstanding app.