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Posted by Tester
Aug 29, 2015 at 01:52 AM
I just wanted to inform you that according to a note on the website the 50% discount for “RightNote” will end on 31st August (see the message on top of the website / http://bauerapps.com/rightnote/ )! Until then the price is 29,95 $ for the standard version and 59,95 $ for the professional version (see http://bauerapps.com/rightnote-pricing/ ).
I tested the professional version intensely during the last days and my impression of the application is a very good one. The webbook feature is (at least for my needs) the best solution for web publishing I could find in the outliner applications I have tried.
If some technical details can be clarified with the developer I will buy RightNote. Unfortunately this will/would mean a gradual farewell to MyInfo which I like too and which I would prefer not to abandon. But it is simply so vague when the major upgrade to MyInfo 7 will come and if it will bring an improved possibility for web export (something similar to RightNote’s webbook).
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM
Hi folks,
Well, as a Mac user, I really didn’t want to fall in love with RightNote. But you know what? The Web Book feature is A W E S O M E!
And it has its own built-in search engine. And pretty mobile templates (nice, simple, logical design). It’s the perfect platform for creating simple (read-only) wikis, in other words.
Damn! So I’ve just purchased the Pro upgrade (I bought RightNote Pro while I was still a Windows user, back in 2013) and installed it on one of my headless PCs.
It doesn’t just create pretty web books - it does so quickly, efficiently, and adds a complete search index (which means searches are very fast). The multi-tabbed interface adds an extra level of usefulness - you can effectively use tabs as chapter headings.
It also works well in a browser if you call up the web book through the file system, so it doesn’t need a web server. I have a test book on my Synology NAS, and I can read it (and perform searches) quite happily over a standard CIFS network link. I deliberately didn’t put the test book in one of the web server folders.
Now, if I was going to be Mr. Finicky (okay, okay, I am), I would love to see highlighted search terms in Web Book searches (yeah, I did test that through the web server). But you can’t have everything! I may hassle Rael about that, however…
Thanks for the recommendation, Tester. Now I must resist the temptation to rush out and acquire a super-cheap Windows tablet just so I can play with RightNote on it… ratz!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 29, 2015 at 11:57 AM
Okay, this is ridiculous. You can copy web books about using e.g. Dropbox and they’ll run quite happily as local microsites on mobile devices. I’ve just used Readdle Documents (the best of the best file management apps on iOS) to copy a web book from my Dropbox account to an iPad, and it runs beautifully (very fast indeed, in fact). And yes, the search function works perfectly, too.
So now I’m going to have to hassle Rael to produce a Mac version of RightNote - I can’t go on using it on headless machines. Well, I suppose I can, but still. He’s gonna love me!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 29, 2015 at 03:08 PM
Okay, one more note on RightNote:
it uses iFrames. Bit of a nuisance, especially on mobile devices (due to scrolling issues). Hm. Have to suggest to Rael that he uses a more modern technique, maybe lifted from something like UserPress (for WordPress), a very nice WordPress wiki template that goes together well with the Search & Filter plugin (for those of you who are WP aficionados).
Posted by gunars
Aug 29, 2015 at 05:27 PM
One thing I noticed in that sample webbook is that internal links aren’t working. For example, on the page “Boot Camp > Unique feature highlights”, there are several “Details here” links that should take you to a different page in the webbook. Instead, Firefox gives me an error and IE does nothing. However, I just exported the same user guide using the current 3.3.1.0 version of RightNote (I have a Pro license I haven’t really started using yet). All is well - the internal links are all working properly.
Tester wrote:
In case that someone is interested to see how a webbook created with
>RightNote looks like in the web, here I discovered a good example. It is
>the User Guide for Right Note itself. It is not linked on RightNote’s
>homepage (http://bauerapps.com/rightnote/) but you can find it here:
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>http://www.integritysoftwaresolutions.com/FreedomFiles/RightNoteTest/web.html
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>(The starting pages of the webbooks are a little bit “ascetic”
>consisting only of two lines. ;-) You have to click on “RNUserGuide” in
>order to “enter” the database.)
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>As mentioned in a former posting, you have in the bar on top a search
>button for fulltext search and at the bottom of the tree a filter for
>searching within the note titels.
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