WhizFolders and Graphical Front Ends

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 15, 2006 at 09:10 PM

Derek,

See my responses in brackets.

Derek Cornish wrote:
>Steve -
> >Before I d/l Whizfolders, can you tell me whether it has:
> >- any single-pane outlining features [No]
> >- ability to import .HEAD outlines (e.g., to import Grandview files) [I don’t believe so]
> >- ability to export outlines to Word [only RTF, text and HTML]
> >- tabbed interface as well as notes tree (e.g., like Keynote) [While notes are visible in the notes pane, you can also open notes in a separate editor window, which provides access to more formatting buttons on the tool bar… You can have individual notes open and accessible through tabs in this editor window. However, access to various notes databases (what WF calls documents) is in a separate window altogether… So you can access individual notes through tabs, as well as clicking on the heading in the tree, but you do not have tabbed access to various trees.]
> >- ability to work with URL-type address hyperlinks - e.g., like “biblioscape://RefID=28” - in order to link with data from other
>programs [I’m not quite sure about this. When I dragged and dropped a file from my desktop onto the editor, this is the code that WF inserted

[~JumpFileShowText AP ad draft.pdf::..\..\AP ad draft.pdf]

When not in edit mode, that link looks like this

AP ad draft.pdf

But is, underlined like most links.]

>
>- ability to add marginal-type comments to text [No]
> >As you can see I am struggling hard against my addiction. OTOH, so many tree-type organizers, so few major differences amonst them… [I agree with that statement. I may have overstated the power of the editor in WF. It has extended selection, which is rare these days. But it doesn’t have outlining or footnoting or the powerful features of Word.]
> >Derek
> >Derek