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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 17, 2014 at 12:25 PM
Thanks for drawing our attention to this new feature. It’s very impressive. Makes me all the more anxious to see an (offline) Gingko app, frankly.
Gingko (shortly to become “the web app formerly known as Gingko”) is a truly innovative concept - all the more brilliant because of its simplicity.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 17, 2014 at 12:36 PM
Gingko looks impressing. But I am reluctant to use an online-only application for my work. I did not find any mention of plans for an offline app.
Bill or Dr. Andus: Any news regarding an offline app?
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 17, 2014 at 01:02 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Thanks for drawing our attention to this new feature. It’s very
>impressive. Makes me all the more anxious to see an (offline) Gingko
>app, frankly.
I found one good use for the hoist feature already. Some of my earlier Gingko drafts got a bit messy to navigate, once I’ve got my notes, the outline, and the draft alongside one another. However, the new hoist feature allows you to effectively mimic a Scrivener-like system, if in the first column (top level hierarchy) you create a “draft” card (and branch) and a “research” card (and branch). Hiding one or the other than allows you to focus on one or the other. A very clean and neat solution.
Franz Grieser wrote:
Gingko looks impressing. But I am reluctant to use an online-only
>application for my work. I did not find any mention of plans for an
>offline app.
>Bill or Dr. Andus: Any news regarding an offline app?
I was told that it’s definitely on the road map and that there are many users requesting it (including me), and that they have already done some work on it. Off-line access also seems to be the developer’s pet research area, so I’m hopeful that something will come of it.
Personally I’d be already happy with an offline Chrome app implementation, just like WorkFlowy’s.
For now I do back up my Gingko trees regularly. It takes about 3 mouse clicks, and the text files are tiny, so it’s a small footprint.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 17, 2014 at 02:05 PM
@Dr. Andus: Thanks for the information.
Loosing data is not my main concern. I do not want to depend on internet access for my tools to work. And I want to be able to continue using the tools even in case, the developers give up service.
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 13, 2014 at 03:39 PM
Some cool new shortcuts in Gingko (well, at least new to me), to split a card while editing:
Split card down: Ctrl K
Split card right: Ctrl L
As it says. The first one moves the text after the cursor to a new card below, the second one to a new card into the next column on the right. The cards will continue to be hierarchically connected (parent-child and sibling relationship).
It looks like there are also shortcuts now for formatting (bold, italics, red text, block code, to-dos etc.).