On Friday, June 22, 2007, at 09:01AM, "Niels Kobschätzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Jun 22, 2007, at 08:26, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >> >>> I didn't know that this feature exists…cool… >> >> Aaargh! I'm half convinced that people write new apps for reference/ >> PDF management because they don't know BibDesk can do this. How can >> we advertise it more effectively? I've been using it for years, and >> just assume that others use it as well. > >How about building the web-site a way that it propagates the most >important/interesting features. > >I think about shorter texts with more highlights (e.g. bold letters >than 'text').
Me not understand HTML (and engineers make bad web designers, anyway)! I'd be happy to give shell access to anyone who wants to take a shot at revamping things. Most of the "manual" style content should be moved to the wiki, I think (the entire manual is online now, anyway), and the home page should be more feature/description oriented. >E.g. propagating auto-file through software: Activate it >automatically and give a warning window which can be switched off >(don't show this window again) or add some kind of assistant which >will give you the opportunity to switch features like this on or off >when you first start the program (and give the user the ability to >start it later again) I think the problem is that people don't even know you can add files, though, so this wouldn't even make it discoverable. What do our newer users think? >Btw. I just searched 5 minutes for the auto-consolidate-command (I >expected it in File or in Database -- in the help it isn't mentioned >where it is. The help should mention those stuff . Instead of "Choose >this command to scan all selected publications in the file for linked >files. A dialog will be opened that asks you for some options. You >can find it in.", it would be better to have a sentence like this >"Choose auto-consolidate (Publication->Auto-Consolidate) to scan all >selected publications in the file for linked files. A dialog will be >opened that asks you for some options." Please file bug reports on the online help when you find that it's not adequate. Better yet, anyone who wants to improve it can have commit access (I assume Mike and Christiaan agree to that :). The help book is written in GNU Texinfo, which is pretty easy to write. >Nice that it says "Consolidate 5 files" when I chose 5 files but the >feature is called "auto-consolidate". Therefore it should be "auto- >consolidate" or "auto-consolidate 5 files" in the menu (I prefer the >first one - menu-items should be static imho and not dynamic except >for greying out stuff) > >> >> True. The disadvantage of Spotlight is that you can't limit the scope >> of its search easily. Regardless, I gave up organizing by hand in the >> Finder, and now all searching is handled by BibDesk (metadata and >> content). > >Bibdesk can search content? Good that I started this thread… >I use Bibdesk now for over one year and those two features are really >really good… When you do a search on your database, there's an option for "File Content." It indexes all attached files with Search Kit (closing the document will lose the index, sadly, but it's very fast as long as the index is in memory). Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
