Where are the exciting developments?

Posted by Manfred
Jan 22, 2009 at 06:13 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Yes, Connected Text is a fine program, but development on it hasn?t exactly progressed at a rapid pace in the past two years.

Well, I would beg to differ. Since January of 2007 ConnectedText has gone from Version 2.0.0.9 to Version 3.1. While many of these versions seem like incremental increases, many companies would have made them major versions, and they would now be at 5.8 ()or something like that.

Some of the (for me) most important developments:
* a USB version and topic redirection (March 2007)
* a new highlight plugin (June 2007)
* template manager (July 2007)
* Filter manage (August 2008)
* Footnotes (October 2007)
* Autolinking and a new Table of contents View, which allows intinsic outlining of documents (October 2007)
* Outlines (extrinsic outliner for topics) (October 2007)
* Autobackup to Text files (April 2008)
* semantic functions of properties and attribute (April 2008)
* new functions for properties (later in April 2008)
* Outline export to HTML (June 2008)
* Outline export to Freemind (and printing of outlines) (August 2008)
* Summaries of properties and attributes (September 2008)
* Outlines can be printed with linked text included (December 2008)
* Outlines can be exported to text (December 2008)
* Support of folding in editor (December 2008)
* Macros and Buttons (December 2008)
* 12 new macros (later in December 2008)
* URLs that can be used by other applications (December 2008)
This does not include some of the many improvements and changes that were not as important to me.

In any case, the last two years have changed the application to such an extent that it is a completely different “animal” now, with sophisticated outlining and semantic extensions that works well with other applications.

I continue to bet on it just BECAUSE of its RAPID development.

Manfred