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ConnectedText now is an Outliner with Footnote Function
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Posted by Manfred
Oct 2, 2007 at 05:32 PM
I did look at WikidPad some time ago, but found it rather buggy and unreliable. Ultimately, I was afraid to entrust it with my research. ConnectedText, on the other hand, has not crashed once in all the time I have used it (since 2005; and I used Notebook before, which is also freeware, and I would still prefer over Wikidpad).
This is not to say that more recent versions are not more reliable (though my occasional visits to the user forums do not inspire that much confidence.
Manfred
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 3, 2007 at 12:54 AM
Manfred -
Does ConnectedText provide universal links to its content? That is, can you paste a link from its content into another program, which can then invoke ConnectedText and go to the content in question - i.e., to a topic, or piece of selected text?
WhizFolders has this neat feature, which makes it very useful when working in conjunction with Zoot (though not Zoot32 yet).
Derek
Posted by Manfred
Oct 3, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Derek,
yes, it does have that feature. I have, in fact, used it to link entries to Whizfolder, where the links look something like this (ct://Aktuell/%28NEHEMAS%202000%29). I used to use Whizfolder as an intermediate stage between note-keeping or very rough drafts (zero drafts) and the final product, which has to be submitted.
Given that ConnectedText does now do real footnotes and outlining, I will skip the Whizfolder stage and keep it all in ConnectedText until I export it to the Word Processor.
As you know, not every application accepts such links equally well, but in my experience it works quite well in the ones I use most.
Manfred
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 3, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Manfred -
> Given that ConnectedText does now do real footnotes and outlining, I will skip the Whizfolder stage and keep it all in ConnectedText until I export it to the Word Processor.
This was exactly what I was wondering about. I was very impressed with WhizFolders for its ability to use universal links to its text.
Just to be certain I’ve understood you correctly, does ConnectedText allow universal links to its content (selected paragraphs, sentences, and so on) as well as to its “topics” - if this is a valid way of looking at how CT works? For example, in the “Welcome to ConnectedText” file of the CT trial I was able to define a universal link to the section “Navigator” - ct://Welcome/NAVIGATOR - using Menu>Topic>Copy as URL. But I couldn’t see a way of lonking to a single sentence (e.g., “Note that each node of the graph has a color indicator at upper left corner.”) within the section. Can you do this? Is this feature only available in the new beta?
> As you know, not every application accepts such links equally well, but in my experience it works quite well in the ones I use most.
My CT link works in classic Zoot, but not in Zoot32 - so far.
Derek
Posted by Manfred
Oct 3, 2007 at 02:35 PM
Derek,
I actually don’t know whether it is possible to have universal links to a single sentence. My topics are all fairly short because I find the “granurality” (if that’s a word) of between 500-1000 words the best (and divide up topics when they get larger - except for drafts). So I don’t need that functionality.
I know that it is possible to link to parts of topics, even words, within CT itself by defining an anchor and linking to that anchor, but I don’t know whether that can be used in a universal link. (But I doubt this, as you copy the link from the tab of the open topic (like so: ct://Welcome/LINKING).
One thing that I have found is that the developer of the program is extremely responsive to requests by users. So, it might not hurt to ask whether that functionality will be available in the future.
Manfred
P.S.: One work-around would be to have a topic that links to specific places (words or sentences) in specific pages and link to it. You could then jump from it to the specific place. (Not quite as elegant as the other way, but it would work).