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Posted by dan7000
Jan 24, 2011 at 06:19 PM
To the extent that categories are analogous to tags, Evernote does exactly what Citavi does, if I’m understanding it right:
- tags on the leftmost pane
- a list of individual items belonging to the selected tag appear in the middle pane
- the content of the individual item appears in the right pane. (and can be viewed in a separate window, allowing the contents ofmultiple notes to be viewed at once)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 24, 2011 at 06:26 PM
dan7000 wrote:
>To the extent that categories are analogous to tags, Evernote does exactly what
>Citavi does, if I’m understanding it right:
You are perfectly right; my bad. The irony of it is that I have written elsewhere in this forum about the power of Evernote’s hierarchical tagging.
Posted by JJSlote
Jan 25, 2011 at 04:03 AM
dan7000 wrote:
>Evernote does exactly what Citavi does, if I’m understanding it right:
>- the content of the individual item appears in the right pane. (and can be viewed in a
>separate window, allowing the contents ofmultiple notes to be viewed at once)
The Citavi third pane displays not the single item, but stacked up, scrolling previews of whichever items you multiselect in the second pane. You can access an additional pane of previews in the floatable Publication Assistant. You’d edit any items you choose in separate windows, as you would in Evernote. But it’s usually easier to edit just the one note you want and use the preview panes to stack up the supporting material. Grouped scrolling previews mean less commitment to each supporting note, hence more spontaneous thought exploration with much less window wrangling.
But the Citavi editor needs to be more compact. And oddly, only the floating Publication Assistant preview pane enables text selection within a previewed knowledge item; the inline preview pane does not. I’ve requested both enhancements.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jan 25, 2011 at 04:14 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>The approach implemented by the programs I mentioned follows the principles below:
>
>1st pane: hierarchical outline/tree, categories only, no individual info
>items
>2nd pane: list view of items
>3rd pane: details of the selected item
Well, in IQ,
- your 1st pane would be the Properties Pane, which can display list of fields (categories) in flat or hierarchy view. In addition, it contains forms which acts as groups of categories, where a subset of the categories can be shown and ordered.
- your second pane is the grid, which would contain the list of info items. You can choose to display a flat list or add some structure to your items.
- your third pane is the HTML pane, details of the selected item
FYI
(I don’t want to hog this thread…)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 25, 2011 at 06:31 PM
@ JJSlote
>The Citavi third pane displays not the single item, but stacked up, scrolling
>previews of whichever items you multiselect in the second pane.
This is indeed useful. I’ve only seen this before in RSS readers (including Mozilla Thunderbird which also does email)
@ PPL
Thanks for the clarification. I find that I have become quite lazy when evaluating software and miss out on some important details. The ability to rearrange panes and their contents in modern programs is still a sort of cultural shock for me…