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Posted by Ian Goldsmid
May 17, 2006 at 12:17 AM
Further:
A neat additional goodie I’ve found, is dragging and dropping the local URL for Google Desktop Search into the selector as a Topic. Then any GDS result found can be dragged and dropped into the Selector as a Topic (or into a Note as a hyperlink). Then you can return the GDS Start Page Topic to its Initial URL with a right click as mentioned. This now means I’ve got really fast access to any data or file, inside or outside IS, using IS Search or GDS within IS. I’m quite thrilled with this!
Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>Hi Daly and all
>
>I wrote to IS 9 support about this today, and they replied to me in a
>matter of hours. In fact, if you navigate away from the original URL contained in and as
>the Topic, you can right click on the topic and choose “return to original URL - and you
>are promptly returned to where you started! Voila! Cool hey?
>
>Regards, Ian
Posted by Jack Crawford
May 18, 2006 at 03:08 AM
As a user of IS 2 through 6 I feel a CRIMP attack coming.
A couple of questions if I may ...
- Has Micro Logic done anything about the god-awful GUI?
- What exactly is a “Preliminary version”? Some sort of beta?
TIA
Jack
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
May 18, 2006 at 05:23 AM
Jack
The GUI is still basically the same. Funny thing is though, even though there are programs that excel at having a beautiful and ergonomic GUI - and I’ve bought, or tried them all, it still seems to me that I can work with all my stuff, more intuitively, and faster with IS9 (even email - and I’ve been using Outlook for years!). I am though still keeping parrallel running of some of my stuff, especially email, with Outlook, and Omea Pro. The Omea Pro bunch seem to have woken up again, and things are looking pretty interesting there actually. For saved web pages, I have a choice NetSnippets, Firefox Scrapbook, or the Omea Pro Firefox web clipper (and then then I have the option of easily and quickly exporting all of that to html on my hard drive - and that way I can also find and access it with any desktop search program of choice .... The reason for this is I have found that searching for (non saved) web pages in IS to be strangely slow - and it doesn’t save all the content of web pages anywhere like as accurately as the aforementioned - so I am avoiding putting too much of that type of content into it for now. However, once html files are on disk, I can drag and drop them as IS Topics, and that works really well.
If you download the product without paying for it, and when it asks for a password you just click cancel, the application opens in read only mode with a sample file that has a selection of everything you can do in IS9 - so in other words, you can in fact take a read only look without paying to see whether you like it or not.
They state on their IS 9 ‘home’ page that development for this version is going to be complete by mid July or so. Perhaps they are all out working on some new stuff at them moment I don’t know. There don’t yet seem to be a lot of bugs to fix - or at least nothing that appears major, and they’ve stated they will announce new releases each two weeks, so we’ll have to wait and see I guess. The next release should be later this week or thereabouts.
IJG
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 18, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Well, I succumbed to my CRIMP nature and upgraded to Version 9. Jack, if you stopped using IS after versions 6, you’ll likely find this latest version much more powerful. The GUI is still much the same, but there have been many useful features added in versions 7-9. The editor is more powerful, and provides many new formatting options, including a crude outlining (introduced in V8). It still lacks extended selection, which is annoying to me.
I have actually always liked the IS selector, what other programs refer to as the tree pane. My problem, just as it has been with most tree-based PIMs, is that the tree gets crowded and overwhelming awfully fast. I am hoping that the new context tabs will help to mitigate this problem in IS.
I assume that a preliminary release is just a fancy term for a release candidate beta. But who knows?
Steve Z.
Jack Crawford wrote:
>As a user of IS 2 through 6 I feel a CRIMP attack coming.
>
>A couple of questions if I may
>...
>
>- Has Micro Logic done anything about the god-awful GUI?
>- What exactly is a
>“Preliminary version”? Some sort of beta?
>
>TIA
>
>Jack
Posted by Captain CowPie
May 18, 2006 at 02:39 PM
I like the ideas that Dominik and Kenneth wrote about using a template that has Category, Date, Author, Keywords, etc. already in them. I have found that I type keywords into the selector or note itself on most occasions, without it being as formalized as this. I think I am going to try this approach instead.
The new version seems to be pretty good, although I would have liked a bit more. Maybe a feature or two will be added before July! The main one I am looking for is tables inside of notes, and possibly enhanced outlining capabilities in the note itself. This would really enhance the program IMHO.
Vince
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>First, I create a template for notes where the
>following items are listed (on top or at the bottom of the note - this is up to you). I am
>using small letters only to simplify the typing:
>category:
>date:
>author: