Outlines of outlines

Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 5, 2006 at 04:59 AM

Graham,

Good to hear from you. Yes, I’m still using Zoot. Have you moved on to other software?

> The searching should just happen, other than linking the file, you shouldn’t need to do anything for it to work.

In my last project I tended to use Zoot for my own notes rather than importing file contents or linking to files. Probably, too, I haven’t been sync’ing to windows folders or shortcutting to files often enough to have got the whole thing sorted out (however, I still have your very helpful detailed comments on how to sync, and have my Net Snippets folder sync’d in this way).

As for not being able to search linked files, this seems to vary with the type of link. I think my problem - one I’ve noticed others have had in the past (I’m always about two years behind everyone else in fathoming Zoot’s features) - is sorting out the various ways in which one can use shortcuts in Zoot. As I recall, one can:

1. Make shortcuts between items, items to folders, etc (just mentioned for sake of completeness);

2. Sync a Zoot folder to a windows folder. This adds file-links and 32k of each file’s contents (max) to the respective Zoot Notes. Zoot’s query feature will find results both in the notes themselves, and in the remainder of the linked file - though it will not highlight and go to the location of the “hit”. This works for me;

3. “Insert file” - basically pastes a file-link into a Zoot note via the editor-pane context menu. I am not able to search these linked files using Zoot’s query feature;

4. Make a shortcut from a selected file to an item. This shortcut resides in the shortcut manager as one of the item’s group of shortcuts, but nothing appears in the associated note. One has to click the big Z to see and use this type of shortcut. I am not able to search this type of link using Zoot’s query feature.

It is quite possible that I am doing something wrong here, but I can’t for the life of me see what it is…

Derek