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Posted by Eduardo Mauro
Sep 2, 2010 at 06:19 PM
Hi Quant,
Let me try to address some of your comments:
- deleted one item, moved around, got error message ?invalid class typecast?
- one click doesn?t seem to do anything on the navigator
True. If you double click a topic it will be presented in the viewer.
- moving item reorganizes items in such a way, that I was lost (maybe just needs time to get used to)
The graph is reorganized automatically after an it is moved using a force related algorithm.
- couldn?t find the zoom and rotate for navigator (is there?) and how many connections the graph should display
You can zoom using the mouse wheel. There are two buttons in the toolbar that can be used to rotate the graph.
- the biggest problem was that I could not find a way to connect two items in the navigator, tried holding, clicking, shift, ctrl was connecting something, but I didn?t figure out what, definitelly not the item I had selected and then clicking on the other,
You can’t link two topics using the navigator because ConnectedText is a wiki system. Connections are made in the text using [[ ]]. The navigator just shows the how your topics are linked. It is not a tool for linking them. In Personal Brain you can link two topics. In CT just enclose any word or words with [[ ]] and a link is created which will shown in the navigator. It is a different concept. May work for some users and may not for others.
I will be glad to answer any question regarding CT. I know that documentation may be a deficiency of CT. All information about it you can found in a project that is bundled with the program. It is also functions as help through F1 key.
Eduardo Mauro
ConnectedText
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 2, 2010 at 08:48 PM
Manfred - you don’t need what any longer? I can tell you’re upset, and that I am the cause.
If I offended you, I apologize. I had no intention to do that, or any reason to - I have long respected your contributions to the forum.
My criticisms were directed at Connected Text. Some of us need help files to survive, and for me with wikis that is the case.
I was spurred on to check out CT because of your recommendations. And I can appreciate where you are coming from - I just wish I could make it work for me. I can’t, but that isn’t your fault, and no criticisms of you were intended.
If your comment about knowing nothing about a program is directed toward me, please know I have on at least two occasions tried to figure out CT on the basis of your recommendations which I valued - and still value - even though I haven’t been able to get my head around how to make CT do the things that lead to your being impressed by it.
I wish I could because I appreciate what you are saying - I am just not able to put it into practice.
Incidentally, I also have appreciated your blog http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/ over the years, especially some of the historical posts on note-taking methods and handling of information.
Anyhow, I hope you do not leave this forum - on my account or for any other reason.
Daly
PS I didn’t realize you’re Canadian. Whereabouts are you based? I’m in Winnipeg.
Manfred wrote:
>“I found the help files unintelligible,” ...
>
>I understand that help files are
>important, even though I also know that most of us read them only as a last resort. To
>reject an application just because the help files are not quite adequate seems to me to
>put the cart before the horse, anyway. Furthermore, there are a lot of “promising”
>applications discussed here that don’t have any help files at all.
>
>The Company that
>develops ConnectedText is based in Brazil. I am sure they have very competent
>technical writers in Portuguese. That being said, “unintelligible” is certainly an
>unwarranted exaggeration.
>
>For what it’s worth, ConnectedText is the **only**
>application that makes **me** stick with Windows.
>
>Anybody is, of course, entitled
>to their own opinion as to the quality of a program?especially if they know next to
>nothing about it.
>
>Daly, this will be my last post in this forum so you won’t have to be
>annoyed with my comments or posts any longer. I don’t need this ...
>
>From one Canadian
>to another,
>
>Manfred
Posted by rogbar
Sep 3, 2010 at 12:51 AM
Please forgive my butting in, but when one galumphs around the internet and sees so much rudeness, hostility and knee-jerk flaming, it’s SO refreshing to read someone lowering the temperature by saying “I’m sorry if I offended you, I didn’t mean to.”
Of course, it’s SAD that this is so noteworthy and refreshing, but kudos for being a gentleman.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 3, 2010 at 02:13 AM
Thanks Rogbar - I feel especially bad in this situation because Manfred is always a gentleman, and he’s a guy I do respect. I fear that, as I have been at times in recent months, I was heavy handed in what I wrote without realizing it.
Anyhow, thanks again. I hope this ends well.
Daly
rogbar wrote:
>Please forgive my butting in, but when one galumphs around the internet and sees so
>much rudeness, hostility and knee-jerk flaming, it’s SO refreshing to read someone
>lowering the temperature by saying “I’m sorry if I offended you, I didn’t mean
>to.”
>
>Of course, it’s SAD that this is so noteworthy and refreshing, but kudos for
>being a gentleman.