On Jun 22, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > 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.
I can think about some stuff - some static HTML-pages should do it. But it would take some time because of other involvements right now. Maybe there should be some brainstorming what the most interesting parts of BibDesk are which users should know about. Big maybe as well: maybe there should be some merged page about Skim and BibDesk because I guess that a lot of ppl here are using both and at least the notes-part is available in both (could be a feature-to- mention as well) >> 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? With an assistant that let's you know about this feature you would know ;) The same when you drew a file to the local-URL-field (I found that rather fast) and auto-filing would be enabled per default and a dialogue when you use it the first time (until you switch off the dialogue) >> 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. Here's the same as for the html-stuff - I had to write FAQ-stuff for a webhoster and for the IT-department of one of the faculties of the university where I study. But I would need some native who has a look over the texts (same for html) because I'm native German ;) <snip> > > 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). I found the File Content-option after to get to know that you can search file content ;) Niels ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
