MyBase 5.5.1, continued
Started by JJSlote
on 6/14/2010
JJSlote
6/14/2010 9:49 am
Perhaps we can give myBase 5.5.1 its own discussion thread, rather than perpetuate that expired sale notice for TreeDBNotes.
Key points made thus far:
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Jerome> MyBase absolutely shines through the richness and quality of its tagging and cross-referencing, using internal links as tags rather than the Label mechanism. Full tagging has proven much more valuable than an item?s position within the hierarchy. But my 5.51 trial has been crashing too frequently to commit to just yet.
Cassius>I?ve been running MyBase 5.51 since it became available with no problems. I am running Win XP SP2....MyBase also needs a better, Boolean search function.
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I?ve reported the following to WJJ: Version 5.5.1 locks up for me on the Clipboard Monitor when 1) The first line of the copied text is blank, and 2) I select "Paste as New Child Item" or "Paste as New Sibling Item" on the Clipboard Monitor Menu. Do you get this as well?
You're quite right that search needs improvement. It should be field based, so we could search not just for "NY" but for "State=NY". MyBase's field capabilities are presently supported, to my knowledge, only in the half-baked "Export DB records to CSV/XLS".
Jerome
Key points made thus far:
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Jerome> MyBase absolutely shines through the richness and quality of its tagging and cross-referencing, using internal links as tags rather than the Label mechanism. Full tagging has proven much more valuable than an item?s position within the hierarchy. But my 5.51 trial has been crashing too frequently to commit to just yet.
Cassius>I?ve been running MyBase 5.51 since it became available with no problems. I am running Win XP SP2....MyBase also needs a better, Boolean search function.
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I?ve reported the following to WJJ: Version 5.5.1 locks up for me on the Clipboard Monitor when 1) The first line of the copied text is blank, and 2) I select "Paste as New Child Item" or "Paste as New Sibling Item" on the Clipboard Monitor Menu. Do you get this as well?
You're quite right that search needs improvement. It should be field based, so we could search not just for "NY" but for "State=NY". MyBase's field capabilities are presently supported, to my knowledge, only in the half-baked "Export DB records to CSV/XLS".
Jerome
Cassius
6/14/2010 4:30 pm
JJSlote wrote:
Jerome,
I must admit that I don't use the Clipboard Monitor. So I tried it and, yes, I have the same problem that you do. There is a bug or a conflict with another program. (I use the application ClipX, which allows me to save numerous clips and choose among them for pasting.)
I?ve reported the following to WJJ:
Version 5.5.1 locks up for me on the Clipboard Monitor when 1) The first line of the
copied text is blank, and 2) I select "Paste as New Child Item" or "Paste as New Sibling
Item" on the Clipboard Monitor Menu. Do you get this as well?
Jerome
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Jerome,
I must admit that I don't use the Clipboard Monitor. So I tried it and, yes, I have the same problem that you do. There is a bug or a conflict with another program. (I use the application ClipX, which allows me to save numerous clips and choose among them for pasting.)
JJSlote
6/14/2010 6:06 pm
Cassius, thanks for corroborating. Clipboard Monitor saves steps in specifying how the clipping is to go in, whether as a new note or text within the note. It's also the most convenient way to transfer items from Stickies, the sticky note manager. Both programs use RTF for notes; Stickies exports to CSV but myBase doesn't import CSV. And in a two-step export/import via Outlook, you don't get live RTF items but text items with RTF codes.
MyBase's symbolic link system, where an item can bed edited directly from a shortcut, has a speed and simplicity advantage over recursive multi-parent systems. It feels more like a flat file, rather than a system of pointers to records in an auxiliary file. But multi-tagging is quicker, more spontaneous and more reliable than multi-parenting anyway. A tag is a persistent property of an item, whereas a multi-parent relationship is a representation of where you happened to drag the item.
Jerome
MyBase's symbolic link system, where an item can bed edited directly from a shortcut, has a speed and simplicity advantage over recursive multi-parent systems. It feels more like a flat file, rather than a system of pointers to records in an auxiliary file. But multi-tagging is quicker, more spontaneous and more reliable than multi-parenting anyway. A tag is a persistent property of an item, whereas a multi-parent relationship is a representation of where you happened to drag the item.
Jerome