InfoQube Requests

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Feb 17, 2010 at 10:24 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I wonder, if it would be possible to develop for IQ, the following:
>* A topic specific comment pane (similar to UltraRecall’s) that is separate from the text pane, so it could be used for notes related to what is being written in the text pane?

It could certainly be added. Could putting the “Notes” field not be used. You can put it on the grid, say just right of the “Item” column and enter text there. You can also use the Properties pane to enter info in “Notes”. Alternatively, notes can be sub-items. You can lock the HTML pane to make sure that it does not synchronize with the grid as you enter sub-item notes

>* Ability to open one or more text panes in stand-alone windows to facilitate quoting from different sources, or writing with an eye on a previous draft, or the source material?

If you use MS Word, or better still, use free Blocknote (http://blocknote.net/) as a rich-text editor, you can have as many as you wish. It is of course planned to have more than one rich-text editing pane.

* Standard font measures instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6 - ie. in points?

MS Word supports editing in points. The build-in editor does not, but this is part of the planned improvements

* Ability to write paragraphs beneath a topic in the tree, without having to use subtopics? This would make InfoQube more functional as a single pane outliner. There are times I’d rather add paragraphed notes beneath topics rather than in the text pane, to make it easier to pull them together later.

This is not possible, however, you can use Ctrl-Enter to insert newlines in the item to simulate it. The way IQ was designed is to enter the information as sub-items. Then use the HTML export to combine all this into a single document.

* Create an InfoQube for Dummies for people like me who know nothing from nothing when it comes to spread sheets or data bases, yet see the clear benefits of what they can do *now* with InfoQube, as well as what they might do in the future?

There are a few web pages that aim at this, namely:
- your first steps: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/860
- getting started with items, grids and fields: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/861
- Introducing the Calendar: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/1215
- step by step “How to’s”: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/59

>I think the genius of IQ is that it can be used as an information manager, a data base manager, and (especially if some of the things I’ve suggested are possible) a finest kind of writing environment.

Agreed !