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== Note-Taker Software--The Missing Piece ==
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Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jun 23, 2009 at 02:52 AM
Less than full rich text formatting. You can choose font, font size, bold, italic, underline, bulleted lists, numbered lists (numerous formatting options for these), indent, outdent, font color, and highlighting. The model is to supply as much formatting as might conceivably needed for notetaking as such, but to expect you to do the actual document formatting in Word.
Posted by Jack Crawford
Jun 23, 2009 at 07:16 AM
And OneNote’s outlining capabilities are rudeimentary.
Jack
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 30, 2009 at 06:44 PM
MyInfo 5.0 was just released and the developer says that it has this functionality now. I haven’t checked it out, but trust this developer.
Steve Z.
Chuck wrote:
>Can someone here _Please tell me which Note-Taker (aka: Info-Manager, Outliner,
>Knowledge-Base) includes this ONE Feature ::
>
>In Paragraph 2 of Note-A you mention a
>subject Fully Discussed in the 24th Paragraph of Note-K; SO in Note-A’s Paragraph 2
>you blithely insert a Hyperlink to JUMP to Paragraph 24 of Note-K.
>
>A bit more data::
>For years, I used the above precise Feature in AskSam, but I now Need to Migrate to a Two-
>(or more) Pane App that offers good formatting ability.
>
>PLEASE Sirs, What App Links
>to a Specific Paragraph in Another Note ??!
>
>(Note: Apps I have not yet tested for the
>above feature include MyBase & WhizFolders.)
>
>Your Help will be Greatly
>Appreciated !
>
>Chuck
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 30, 2009 at 06:48 PM
After checking the main MyInfo page, I realize the developer has not yet publicly announced the new release, so for the moment it is limited to those of us who have already have a license. I imagine the official public announcement will be made soon. Meanwhile, here is what the developer says about this new feature:
Link to paragraphs
Again, one of the top requests on our feedback page. MyInfo 4 is excellent at creating links to topics and documents, but many people wanted to be able to link to exact place in the document, especially when they have many long text documents inside MyInfo.
Now in MyInfo 5, this is easy like the other Copy Hyperlink commands. Just click on the exact spot where you want to link to and select Edit > Copy Link > Copy Link To This Paragraph. This will create an anchor in the text and copy the link to the Clipboard. Now, you can link to this spot of your document from any Windows application that supports hyperlinks.
Posted by Chuck
Jul 4, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>After checking the main MyInfo page, I realize the developer has not yet publicly
>announced the new release, so for the moment it is limited to those of us who have
>already have a license. I imagine the official public announcement will be made soon.
>Meanwhile, here is what the developer says about this new feature:
>
>Link to
>paragraphs
>Again, one of the top requests on our feedback page. MyInfo 4 is excellent
>at creating links to topics and documents, but many people wanted to be able to link to
>exact place in the document, especially when they have many long text documents
>inside MyInfo.
>
>Now in MyInfo 5, this is easy like the other Copy Hyperlink commands.
>Just click on the exact spot where you want to link to and select Edit > Copy Link > Copy
>Link To This Paragraph. This will create an anchor in the text and copy the link to the
>Clipboard. Now, you can link to this spot of your document from any Windows
>application that supports hyperlinks.
Stephen,
Thank you for your reply.
It would appear that my pilgrimage in pursuit of the perfect info-manager is quite similar to yours.
As with you (if I recall correctly), my search for the holy grail seems to have come to its conclusion when I pitted David (MyInfo) against the lumbering behemoth, OneNote. But unlike the Biblical narrative, in this case, David’s 5 stones did not fell the monster.
The difference, however, in your path in this conquest and my own was that I took a far simpler view than you seem to have. For example ...
> MyInfo has outstanding tag support & awesome filtering;
> But a Tree-based interface simply does not compete with the Sharp, five-level organizational layers offered by OneNote (Multi-Notebooks, Sections, Pages, Plus 2 Subdivisions). {Too bad though that its exporting options are horrible.)
> And finally, hyperlinking in both of these august products now resolve to paragraph.
And so (hope, hope), it appears that, at least for now, I have reached trails end. I walk in peace with behemoth.
Chuck C.