InfoQube Requests

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 18, 2010 at 08:55 PM

Pierre, many thanks.

You’ve given me some info on how to use what is already in IQ to do what I’m hoping to do.

I’ll give it a try.

Does Blocknote enable IQ to have more than window open, or is it a separate program - not sure of what you were meaning when you suggested it.

Thanks.

Daly

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>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 !
> >