On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:57 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: >> >> 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'). The features that a new user will find useful will depend on where they're starting from. If they don't have a pre-existing reference/ pdf collection, they will likely be interested in creating new references or importing them from searches. OTOH, I had an extensive collection of both references and pdfs that I needed to migrate from another system, so I was particularly interested in figuring out how to link a bunch of pdfs to the corresponding references (Claus Gerhardt helped me out with a very nice AppleScript--Thanks Claus!). The help file is already set up in an if-then sort of way (e.g., if you already know BibTex, read the quickstart, if you don't know BibTeX read the intro). Expanding on this approach such that new users can quickly find information on the features they need, depending on their situation, might be helpful for new users.
> >> 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? As a new user coming from Sente, the add files feature was very intuitive--just drag and drop! Works just how you would expect. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
