ANN: New release of InfoMatic

[Roger Guay]

Mark,

Thanks you so much for your thorough and prompt feedback.  It is so  
important to have fresh eyes look at this stuff . . . I really  
appreciate it.  I'll get right to fixing the bugs you found, and  
perhaps include most of the new features you suggest ASAP.

Cheers, Roger


On Oct 10, 2005, at 10:00 AM, education-revolution- 
request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:38:36 -0700
> From: Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
> Subject: Re: ANN:  New release of InfoMatic
> To: Revolution in Education <education-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Roger-
>
> Well, you piqued my interest, so I had a look. Feedback:
>
> Once I got used to the interface it was easy to use. The shift-click
> thing was not at all intuitive, nor was the idea that dragging a card
> onto a basket was the way to get it off the main screen area. Of
> course, now that I have it figured out it makes perfect sense.
>
> I like the drag transparency. The Luddite streak in me loves the index
> card appearance of the note cards.
>
> It's not clear to me what the "Show Tools" menu item is supposed to
> do. The Tools palette is shown at all times. If there's a way not to
> show it, I haven't found it yet.
>
> A search feature would be a nice addition. I can see this getting to
> the point where I've added a lot of data and can't quite remember
> where I filed something. Or want to cross-reference something,
> possibly with cards in other baskets. Or other major categories. Or
> just can't remember whether or not I've already files something.
>
> I might, for example, want to explore interlocking directorates by
> entering each by company and then searching on a director's name to
> see what hits come up.
>
> The "Tag reference" and "Tag URL" features look very useful, but my
> first attempt at trying to use them caused the IDE to lock up (a Tag
> reference to a runrev stack).
>
> The Help box says you can use the Tools bar to quit the application,
> but I don't see that as an option - it's either the app menu or the
> windows decoration.
>
> Is it possible to delete a basket once you've created it?
>
> ...and, of course, I think the ability to have baskets within baskets
> would make this even more useful.
>
> -- 
> -Mark
>