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Posted by Maurice Parker
Dec 13, 2021 at 06:23 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
I like the interface revisions – all a big step forward,
>IMHO.
>
>Cheers,
>Bill
Thanks for the feedback. I got a lot of design help from Brad Ellis in v2.0. He’s a professional and very skilled designer. He pointed out lots of UI inconsistencies and made some good revisions. The new way to enter Tags was all his idea. I’m very happy with how it turned out.
I had wondered how people would react to my remapping command-[ and command-] to be “Go Backward” and “Go Forward” instead of Indent and Outdent. It is a little scary to be changing something like this even on a major version release.
In the end I felt it was more important to match the keyboard shortcuts of Safari and Finder than to match OmniOutliner. Besides, Indent and Outdent keyboard shortcuts are also available via the Move commands as we’ll as Tab and Shift-Tab. I apologize to anyone used to using command-[ and command-] as Indent and Outdent. I realize how hard it is to retrain muscle memory.
Posted by Maurice Parker
Dec 13, 2021 at 07:00 PM
As I was commenting in the OPML thread, it occurred to me that I should probably point out something that Shortcuts enables in Zavala 2.0. You can create a single archive of you entire PKB that contains interlinked outlines and images. It is in the zip format and contains PNG files and OPML files. There is also a companion script to load an archive into Zavala.
This means you can back up your entire Zavala account and then restore it if you need to in v2.0. You can also take the load script and use it as a starting point to make a Shortcut that imports from your existing outliner as long as you can get to the existing data.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 14, 2021 at 10:05 AM
Dang, that’s useful – I must try it out. What a great idea.
As for indent/outdent: like many others, I automatically use tab/shift-tab rather than OmniOutliner’s (idiosyncratic) shortcuts. So no worries!
Maurice Parker wrote:
As I was commenting in the OPML thread, it occurred to me that I should
>probably point out something that Shortcuts enables in Zavala 2.0. You
>can create a single archive of you entire PKB that contains interlinked
>outlines and images. It is in the zip format and contains PNG files and
>OPML files. There is also a companion script to load an archive into
>Zavala.
>
>This means you can back up your entire Zavala account and then restore
>it if you need to in v2.0. You can also take the load script and use it
>as a starting point to make a Shortcut that imports from your existing
>outliner as long as you can get to the existing data.
Posted by satis
Jan 31, 2022 at 02:25 AM
I see that v.2x is now out in the Mac App Store, and adds Shortcuts support.
Still free, no Pro features/pricing yet.
Posted by Maurice Parker
Jan 31, 2022 at 04:21 AM
I have no plans to ever try to monetize Zavala. I’m retired and I work on it and NetNewsWire, just to keep myself busy.
I’m pretty happy with the second version of Zavala. I spent a lot of time making the Editor faster and removing edge-case bugs. I also got some design help from a real pro. This release is much more polished than the previous ones.
I’ll post more on the Zavala blog soon about the process of building this release.