InfoQube as a 1-pane outliner

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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 3, 2009 at 07:22 PM

InfoQube Version 0.9.24H is now released with many new features making it an excellent 1-pane outliner:
(warning: This is a product pitch!)

- Rich-text 1-pane outliner
(font face, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, grow, shrink, foreground color, background color)
- Hoisting (supports hoisting more than 1 branch at once)
- Flat view or (normal) hierarchy view
- Unlimited hierarchy depth
- 1-key expand to any hierarchy level
- Optional columns
- Cloning (i.e. multiple parents)
- Split and Join items
- Toggle case
- Easily move items around the outline (keyboard and through drag-drop)
- Smart / Search Folders
- Hyperlinks in the outline (to others items, outlines, web pages, files)
- Multiple outlines per IQBase (i.e. per file)
- Dynamic outline tree through filtering and sorting
- Apply changes to many items at once
- An optional separate note pane
- Live-search (search as you type)
- 1-key web word look-up (Google, definition, synonyms)
- Zoom In / Out
- Print-Preview
- Multi-windowed Tab workspace (can view many outlines at the same time)
- Auto-load the previous file and outline and selecting the last focused item
- Many Import / Export options (including Ecco, URp, Tab-Delimited, OPML, Tab-Indented, HTML)
- Auto-backups, optionally with date-time stamps
- All changes are date stamped enabling such things as a journal view (view content by date created or modified)
- Multiple instances of the program can be opened with the same IQBase in read-write
- Totally portable (i.e. USB ready)
- True industry-standard database storage
- Encryption and password protection
- Multilingual for both content and UI (Unicode)

http://www.infoqube.biz

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 3, 2009 at 08:17 PM

This is probably a stupid question (and definitely doesn’t reduce the value of a very impressive product) but, with all these improvements, why is the version stuck in number 0.9.24 with only the last letter changing? Does .25 somehow symbolize completeness in some special numbering system, so after 0.9.24Z the program will suddenly jump to version 1.0 and be commercially released?

(I said it was probably a stupid question )

BTW, the program seems mature enough by my standards; any ETA (Expected Time of Arrival) for its ‘official’ launch?

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:32 PM

Mostly laziness on my part. The overall roadmap hasn’t been updated recently. It is defined in Mantis here:

http://mantis.sqlnotes.net/roadmap_page.php

And version 0.9.25 is “Completion of the Calendar”. Work on the Calendar has started (and it is already partly functional), but not completed.

I should take the time to update the roadmap and push the Calendar to some later version number, but instead, I chose to add sub-versions and we’re up to H right now. :-)

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